justbake
Well-Known Member
Interesting , I like Chris’ reviews most of the time. He does get hung up sometimes in his vision on what a car SHOULD be. I seem to remember him disliking the GT350..... not because it was a bad car but he feels it is an American muscle car and as such it should just be a straight line brute and not handle (like it does) . Really? I’m wondering if some of his dislike for the Supra is the same. He’s hung up on what it was and not what it is. I mean the suspension bits on the Supra are lifted from the M2 which he praises. Someone correct me if I’m wrong here with the suspension bits info.
At the end of the day I could care less though his opinion of it. All that matters is I enjoy the hell out of it.
I do agree that he is overly harsh about the Supra, but the context in which he speaks is important here and it is what I think most people here are missing. He is not saying the Supra is a bad car by any means. He is saying the car lacks the Supra identity and does not differentiate itself enough from the Z4 by calling it a rebodied BMW. He goes a step further by showing how Toyota is committing a lot of efforts to develop sporty cars, like the GR Yaris, which contradicts Toyota's claim of not having enough money to make the Supra anything more than a hardtop Z4 at a hardware level.
There are plenty of nonsense Supra criticisms on the internet, but I do think Chris Harris's criticisms are fair here.
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