2020 Supra prototype at Goodwood Festival of Speed (photos/videos)

[vb22]

It looks like there is a white car under the camo.

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[A70TTR]

Impossible. TRD is only for trucks now.

I was referring to the only real TRD, TRD Japan (aka Technocraft)

 

[Spilner]

eh probably not

 

[SupraFiend]

What is the deal with the real TRD? Do they even exist anymore? It seems like TRD became so watered down as a truck label that Toyota had to invent a new performance line\racing company\hop up parts lines for actual sporty cars

 

[daviddi92]

I wonder if GR/TRD will offer pop out kits for the front vents that add diverter ducts... hmm

This was my thought exactly. I wonder what else they might include..

 

[Jeff Lange]

Real TRD Japan still exists, but I expect most of what us Toyota people would have classically considered real TRD will now be coming from the GR brand.

Jeff

 

[Jdmuscle]

I wonder if GR/TRD will offer pop out kits for the front vents that add diverter ducts... hmm

A70.. hope everything you are saying are hints with substance behind. Lol

 

[Guff]

Made a (half-assed) photoshop with the glass uncovered so the car at least looks more like a normal car with a silly livery.

 

[vb22]

Made a (half-assed) photoshop with the glass uncovered so the car at least looks more like a normal car with a silly livery.

Sweet, can you make her one color now?

 

[MA617M]

A C63 has fake vents St the front, for aesthetic balance. Otherwise airflow and aero would be bad (if functional vent)

 

[Jdmuscle]

Sweet, can you make her one color now?

Agreed.. Guff come on now.. do it

 

[Jeff Lange]

Oh man if we got started on fake vents, the places this thread can go.

But alright, I'll start: The M3 fender vents are fake.

Jeff

 

[A70TTR]

What is the deal with the real TRD? Do they even exist anymore? It seems like TRD became so watered down as a truck label that Toyota had to invent a new performance line\racing company\hop up parts lines for actual sporty cars

The answer to this would be a mile long but essentially they have fallen out of favor and are more or less the old guard. Why? Because Toyota stopped making cool cars for anything outside Japan and eventually more or less stopped making cool cars to tune there too.

Then Akio comes into the picture and is like ew, old dusty TRD, no thanks. This is especially since TRD is a racing branch of Technocraft, and Technocraft designs all sorts of other stuff like limousines, ambulances, taxis, and other special vehicles and material research outside of racing.

So Akio was like, 'I want my own division that does racing and isn't watered down and doesn't have an old boring reputation.' As a result, TRD(Technocraft) does not like Gazoo and has had funding taken away as a result.

To further complicate this, now Technocraft is defunct and Toyota combined Technocraft and Modellista to form Toyota Customizing & Development (April 2018).



My question is, does that mean TRD as a name is now gone? Will it remain in the USA as rumors suggest? (what a mess)

 

[PerformanceSound]

To further complicate this, now Technocraft is defunct and Toyota combined Technocraft and Modellista to form Toyota Customizing & Development (April 2018).

So TRD has been replaced by TCD?

 

[A70TTR]

lmao, funny you ask as I just asked one of the TTC guys that same thing... haven't heard back yet.

check this out though: http://www.toyota-ttc.co.jp/english/

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