Interviews with Chief Engineer Tetsuya Tada

[halfmonkey]

Hi there, I don't think you understand what calibration means in oem/production cars.
Engine calibration (oem) = engine/ecu mapping (tuner).

My interpretation is that the hardware be exactly the same as BMW B58, but that the ecu/throttle mapping/stability control tuning, will be done to Toyota taste/specs. Which means the car will be different to drive, but have all the BMW reliability issues haha.

Also, the stripped out racecar interior clearly shows, I think, a 2 seater only.

Rex

Thanks for the concern but I do know what calibrate means in terming of R&D. I'm sure Toyota is also calibrating the eco mapping, etc but my comment about the "calibration" was about engineering some more reliability into the engine. I'm sure Toyota knows that BMW doesn't make a reliable engine and since Toyota's are known for their reliability, I'd think that if Toyota is going to buy the engines from BMW, they'd want to make sure that the engines meets some kind of minimum reliability benchmarking. In other words, they need to last for more than 100k miles.

It was more of a sarcastic comment. That's why I put the words calibrate in quotes.

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[A70TTR]

new architecture

 

[Modal170]

new architecture

Missed the joke, but appears to be a good one if Guff likes it so...

 

[Supra21]

new architecture

New architecture?! Hmmmm...cast iron block?! For nostalgic purposes of course!

 

[A70TTR]

whoa there, young bucky! It's not 1990 now haha

 

[Supra21]

whoa there, young bucky! It's not 1990 now haha

Was just getting a lil excited there haha...thought I'd have some fun with it

 

[Modal170]

Aluminum bodied car with a titanium casted engine.

I'm just pulling things out my ass, not well versed in this.

 

[MA617M]

Tuned length manifold, GTX4088 and external gate from factory? Kthnxbye

 

[A70TTR]

Yeah, and a reimagined V160 lol

 

[Guff]

Yeah, and a reimagined V160 lol

If it still thuds into 1st gear, I'm all game!

 

[A70TTR]

Oh hell ya and the syncros for third come uninstalled so that you don't have to live through destroying them.

Crunch from day 1, factory.

 

[Spilner]

Tada: sorry it took us so long to make this happen

Bruh

 

[MA617M]

Oh hell ya and the syncros for third come uninstalled so that you don't have to live through destroying them.

Crunch from day 1, factory.

definitely have iron block, aluminium head and head bolts torqued to 58ft/lbs from factory. i feel that'd be a nice retro touch. throw some boost in there for good measure.

 

[LEG1T]

Oh hell ya and the syncros for third come uninstalled so that you don't have to live through destroying them.

Crunch from day 1, factory.

This might've flown above many but I caught the Frisbee. Mission accomplished A70.

 

[supraboi]

https://jalopnik.com/new-toyota-supra-engineer-sorry-we-took-so-long-to-bri-1823734225

New Toyota Supra Engineer: Sorry We Took So Long To Bring This Thing Back

If anything could challenge the mid-engined Chevrolet Corvette for the “Most Speculated About” award in the automotive industry, it’s talk of a new Toyota Supra. And now that the new Supra is here, kind of, its lead engineer wants to apologize to everyone for taking so long to bring the famous car back.

Tetsuya Tada, a main person behind the incredibly agile but still underpoweredToyota 86, led development for the new Supra, a revival of the beloved tuner car Toyota killed off in the early 2000s. Tada’s mentor was Isao Tsuzuki, the person behind the most recent fourth-generation Supra that ran throughout the ‘90s—you know, the Fast & Furious Supra whose distinctive rounded taillights light up your daydreams over, and over, and over again.

So, naturally, Tada wanted a new Supra to be worthy of the Supra badge. While Toyota wasn’t even sure if the car from its BMW partnership would be called the Supra as recently as November, Tada’s been all about the Supra name for years. He’s just sorry it took so long to bring that name back. From Australia’s Drive:

An enthusiast to his core, Tada said Toyota did not want to compromise and offer a reworked 86 or Lexus coupe with Supra badges.

It had to be done the right way, which meant working with another marque to ensure the correct ingredients were in place.

“We wish that we could have brought back a new Supra much earlier,” he said.

“We wish to apologise to [supporters] that it took so long. It’s been 15 long years, [I am] very sorry for that.”

There are a lot more things than the timeline for the fifth-generation Supra that Tada and Toyota could be sorry about, like the fact that we all have to wait even longer to learn anything about this car. Toyota debuted Tada’s new project as a racing concept and gave us exactly zero information on its performance, engine, transmission, price or any other specs. They showed us a vehicle with plastic windows and smoke blowing around it, leaving us to wonder, still, if this Supra would be any good. The production version apparently won’t debut until 2019.

That’s not a cute and clever teaser. That’s just frustrating.

Tada could also say sorry for the fact that the car will probably not get a manual transmission, since he said Supra fans don’t think it’s a big requirement. Sure, the data on actual potential buyers may say that, but it still hurts.

But hey, an apology is an apology—even if it doesn’t cover everything. Tada is sorry this new Supra took so long to come around, whether it ends up meeting our expectations or not. At least he’s got a good portfolio behind him.

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