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^^ I do hope Toyoda will not do that. I'm a happy 2JZ fan/owner but Nissan's admirable limited renewed support of their 32-34 GT-R's also makes me happy as a fan of those vehicles. The MKIV TT deserves the same support Nissan is giving their own most iconic car(s). And they're also including...

^^ Toyota is being confusing now. I love those Toyota UK pictures but assuming this has been covered on multiple car new sites already: https://leftlanenews.com/toyota/2015-toyota-s-fr-to-remain-a-concept/ Tada- san is now saying that the trouble with producing the S-FR is that it's still...

Saw this the other day. Love ANY Morgan automobile but... here they stuck with the same ZF8 automatic also? It's such a low production and boutique classic touring car I'm amazed they didn't stuff some manual transmission behind it. Perhaps this was the easiest way for Morgan to meet their...

^^ From my own experiece (with a fully rebuilt early R154 using an OEM Soarer extension housing and short shifter) that is not accurate to how those old 5-speeds shift when in good condition. Mine isn’t “butter” smooth but it also is in no way a bucket of rocks with a paddle. It’s fine as a...

An R154 with *six speeds*?? That's news to me. Are they claiming reverse as one of those gears? Personally I like the R154 but it's a "period" manual transmission. I can't see it in an A90. In a vintage Toyota or other project car it's fine so long as you aren't pushing above 500whp with...

Having recently restored a stock 2JZ-GTE myself from the ground up, from that long experience I’m now also of the mind that it’s defintely a dinosuar performance engine from another era. Though it’s a universe away from any performance carbureted V8 from the 1960’s or earlier and I’ve owned one...

CX Racing can be useful for some very very specific project car builds... mostly certain transmission and engine mounts, manual pedal conversion kits and some other key components. Though I'd only use from them what I absolutely must if no other company offers a better alternative. But a full...

^^ Well I think the article was suggesting a next generation IS if this actually holds any water in the first place.

Or use straight-cut gears in single speed reduction drive cases and electric motors that are somewhat loud the faster they spin.

Updated with press release. 2021 LEXUS IS 2021 Lexus IS (non-F) may get the Supra’s B58 I6 turbo engine? Does anyone know if there is truth to this? If it happens, it would mean some cool things ahead for the IS. https://leftlanenews.com/lexus/1517612231550740977/

I think you're right. Tada-san did allude to this regarding the Supra A90 and even it technically can accommodate a hybrid system if they eventually need it to during the model run (I think this has something to do with the design of the ZF 8HP transmission allowing room for a pancake electric...

If they ditch the Torsen LSD (Toyota owns the company that produces it and all patents so it's a no-brainer to include one) or manual it's not going to win people over the way the current one did. Besides, both Bosch and GM have in the last couple of years filed patents for methods to...

Jalopnik appears to be adding fuel to this particular fire. I'm not convinced the MKV will see an S58 engine rather than the standard 382hp B58 with additional extensive modifications but it's nice to dream: https://jalopnik.com/bmws-new-500-hp-s58-inline-six-should-be-very-interesti-1832589427

So this would be an OBD2-pluggable lap data recorder for track use? It has an SD card slot to take your lap data into a PC/Mac program for later analysis presumably. Or maybe that unit only works with the car's built-in infotainment screen?

^^ No argument to any of this. The USA is perhaps the most difficult country in the world to offer any low volume special trim levels to without because of how our crash and emission testing requirements basically have to be done over again for every single trim level variant. But this car...

^^ The S-FR included, all cars that should ideally be sold in the U.S. as well. The S660 is the only one of the bunch that is truly “micro” and still it would be great to see it in the market too, probably in rumored 1.0L displacement.

This shade of yellow looks very good on the MKV! And I remember seeing a couple of factory yellow 93-95 RX-7 FD's when they were new. Very good look on those cars as well. Some model years of the MKIV had a factory yellow color available, didn't they?

It's a crime the new Alpine A110 is not sold in the U.S.

^^ Sounds like no matter what, the GT86 and A90 will be a unique era in Toyota's history. I hope Tada-san does stay on as an advisor... and I hope that his example has inspired other engineers on their way up in Toyota to reach high to create fun driver cars as he has. If he's not going to...

Agreed. A 2nd gen RWD 86/BRZ in any form would be awesome. Further, I hope that a very affordable, well designed RWD 2+2 manual car continues to be available from Toyota in one form or another for as long as possible (just as with the Supra in its current form). So despite Tada-san having...