We're here talking about a potential sports car and they can't get their basic sports car line up sorted out it seems. Endless waiting on news regarding Supra, S-FR doesn't look like it's coming to the US and the FR-S is growing stale.
Btw the Elise is coming back in 2020? Where have I been??
The comparisons to the old Supras may not hold true for the next generation. I think we can expect the MKV to grow by a lot. The FT1 concept is a pretty large vehicle. I know they did this for stage presence but cars have gotten so much bigger and heavier since the last Supra was built.
Most companies don't have the balls to do it but I don't blame them. The take rate for manuals on some cars that do offer it still is like extremely low.
The success of offering a manual probably has a lot to do with the type of car it's offered on. The FR-S/BRZ manual rate of purchase is...
Totally agree WRC. Cars lack soul these days. Maybe im getting old but man back in the 80's when I was growing up there were the Supras, 3000GT's, 250sx, 300zx, RX7, etc etc. Cars I really lusted after (even to this day when I think about it).
I don't think it's just nostalgia either. Those...