The Toyota Supra Thread

New Toyota Supra rendered in base spec, as cabrio and more

The new A90-generation Toyota Supra was revealed at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit earlier in January. But now a digital artist has rendered three new variants – some more unlikely than others – based on fresh official images from the Japanese firm.

The first from X-Tomi Design is a base-spec Supra. This model features black plastic front and rear bumpers, steel wheels (wrapped in what appear to be fairly high-profile tyres) and basic headlamps with orange indicator lenses.

In addition, its exterior door handles and entry-level-style side-mirror caps have been finished in black, while the A-pillar is now body colour (rather than gloss-black).
Toyota Supra cabriolet rendered

Next up is a cabriolet version, seemingly borrowing some inspiration from the latest BMW Z4 roadster that was developed alongside the Supra (and which provides the new Japanese sportscar with its 3,0-litre straight-six engine).

Toyota Supra cabriolet renderedInterestingly, another digital artist, Kleber Silva of Brazil, also posted his take on a topless Supra, again using the Z4 as a base but in this case effectively grafting the Supra’s face onto the body of its German cousin.

Toyota Supra shooting brake rendered

X-Tomi Design also created an interesting “shooting brake” variant, seemingly (slightly) lengthening the body (and presumably the wheelbase, too), extending the roofline and adding a little more glass along the side.

For the record, the fifth-generation Supra is expected to launch in South Africa in the second quarter of 2019 and will be assembled (alongside the Z4) by Magna Steyr in Graz, Austria.

https://www.carmag.co.za/news/new-toyota-supra-rendered-base-spec-cabrio/

IMG_0145.JPG

IMG_0146.JPG

IMG_0147.JPG

IMG_0148.JPG
 
FiestaST said:
The New Toyota Supra Needs This

The new Toyota Supra looks fantastic in person as it is, but there were just two things that seemed a little off about it to me. One was obviously its power output, and the other one I couldn’t quite put my finger on—until now.

It obviously needs a BFW (Big ****ing Wing). I realized this after seeing this render from Roman Miah, a design student on Instagram, featuring the new Supra with tweaked taillights, a new muffler and a slick wing reminiscent of the 1990s Supra:

The render was also published over on Top Gear’s website. Just for comparison, here’s a stock photo of the wing on the ‘96 Supra (Targa top, of course):

And another:

Mmm, yeah. That’s the good stuff.

I also dig the taillight change with the circles in Roman’s render, which helps bridge the gap between the 1996 and 2019 Supras a little better than the actual new design.

While we’re complaining about things the new Supra lacks, the more we talk about the car in the Jalopnik office, and the more I think about it, the more I can’t help but hope that Toyota hasn’t shown us everything planned for the Supra.

For one, if it only ever offers 335 horsepower, it’ll be haunted forever by the shadow of the more powerful America-spec BMW Z4 with which it shares pretty much all of its powertrain and chassis components. It just doesn’t look like a car that should be smoked by a homely little German convertible.

Of course, it likely won’t take long for new Supra buyers to fabricate and install their own homage wings, and do their own tunes, and maybe paint it orange and throw a nice neon green sticker package.

Oh, and if Toyota wants to T-top it again, don’t let me stop them. Make sure you check out Roman’s Instagram and Facebook.

https://jalopnik.com/the-new-toyota-supra-needs-this-1831878467

View attachment 606298View attachment 606300View attachment 606302
Click to expand...


That looks better.Add the signature wing and rear lights.
 
First Production 2020 Toyota Supra Sells For R30 Million At Auction

For some people (mainly car collectors), the first car off the production line is what you are after and considering how much anticipation was built up around the new Supra over the last few years, the first production model sold for an incredible amount at the Barrett-Jackson charity auction.

The hammer went down at a whopping $2.1 million (approx. R30 million) with all proceeds from the sale going to charities, namely the American Heart Association and Bob Woodruff Foundation. The latter supports post-9/11 impacted service members, veterans, and their families.

The future owner will take delivery of the first production Toyota Supra which will bear VIN 20201. “2020” stands for the year the GR Supra was reintroduced, while “1” marks its place as the first model out of the production line.

Toyota have locked the spec already which will see the car receive a factory-finished matte gray exterior paintwork, red mirror caps and matte black wheels. Inside Toyota will fit a red interior with carbon fibre inserts.

Further, the lucky (undisclosed) bidder gets a signed engine compartment by Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda, and the race shoes, suit, gloves, and helmet used to complete the final test of the Supra before signing off on production.

https://www.zero2turbo.com/2019/01/...a-supra-sells-for-r30-million-at-auction.html

IMG_0171.JPG

IMG_0169.JPG

IMG_0170.JPG
 
Would you pay R29 million for the first MKV Supra?

It’s fair to say that the new Toyota Supra has had a mixed reception since being fully revealed at the Detroit Motor Show last week.

It seems most fans just can’t make peace with the fact that it’s so closely based on the BMW Z4, and that drawn out teaser campaign prior to its unveiling could not have helped matters much.

Yet there is someone out there who was prepared to part with the equivalent of R29 million for the first new-generation Supra to roll off the assembly line, although it was was for a good cause too.

The first ever fifth-gen Toyota GR Supra fetched $2.1 million at the 48th Annual Barrett-Jackson Auction in Scottsdale, Arizona recently, with all proceeds going to the American Heart Association and the Bob Woodruff Foundation for war veterans.

But more than just a shiny rear-driven tax write-off with the number ‘1’ in its VIN, the first Supra model comes with some unique kit, including the racing suit, helmet, shoes and gloves worn by Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda during his final Nurburgring test run in a prototype before signing the car off. The Toyota boss also took time to sign the vehicle’s engine compartment.

Supra #1 also comes with some unique ‘launch edition’ exterior and interior touches, including a matte grey exterior paint, red mirror caps and matte black wheels, and a red interior colour scheme with contrasting carbon fibre inserts.

https://www.iol.co.za/motoring/indu...-r29-million-for-the-first-mkv-supra-18906235
 
Decoding the New Toyota Supra's BMW Engine

The new Toyota Supra is, under the skin, a BMW. As such, it has a BMW engine, and that means a confusing series of letters and numbers strewn together that just have to mean something, though it’s never clear what.

Thankfully, though, we have a neat explanation of the B58M30 01 courtesy of Engineering Explained’s new video, which also points out that the Supra’s BMW engine has a closed-deck block like you find on high-horsepower custom Subaru builds, good for taking high boost and surviving.

That makes me think of the big difference between the B58 and the 2JZ: the old 2J was an iron-block engine designed at the height of the quality-over-everything Bubble Era.

It has a reputation for being absolutely indestructible, particularly when bone stock. The JZ engines can handle big boost and seemingly endless abuse levied upon them by punishing tuner car drivers.

BMW’s B58 is an alloy-block engine, and don’t look for reputations of un-killable motors in BMW’s recent history. But a lot of that may be that the history of tuning boosted BMW engines is short in America in contrast to Toyotas. Everybody and their uncle has met a high-horsepower 2JZ. Fewer are familiar with turbo’d M3s old and new.

Still, I wonder if the closed-deck design of the B58 will validate itself on the tuning scene in a way that the 2J diehards might never expect.

Less tuner-friendly for the B58 are the spray-on cylinder liners, which you don’t just re-machine and sleeve like you would something more old school.

The interesting part is the above graphic, decoding BMW’s alphanumerics, telling you this is kind of a mid-range engine as far as the company is concerned, though it has a good amount of tech, like variable valve timing and variable valve lift.

Another thing that stands out is that the B58 engine is undersquare rather than square, as the 2JZ was. Undersquare engines are what you could call a long-stroke engine, basically with a long, skinny path for the piston to travel. Oversquare would be a short path up a very broad cylinder bore. Big fans of the tough 2J might moan that undersquare is less tuner-friendly, with less space for bigger valves and a layout that doesn’t favor high RPM, but ardent BMW fans would be able to counter that the legendary S54 engine of the E46 M3 wailed up to high revs with glee. Alright, maybe this debate is only happening in my head, but I think about these things a great deal.

Engineering Explained’s video also has a wonderful explanation of twin-scroll turbocharging, which uses a genuinely quite handy diagram for understanding how it all makes sense.

As you can see, the timing of the exhaust pulses on a straight six engine would make it so that in a single exhaust manifold running to a single-scroll turbo, one exhaust valve would open up as an earlier exhaust pulse was traveling towards the turbo. That exhaust pulse would then find itself wanting to run back down towards the engine and the newly-opened other valve, rather than just to the turbo alone. Splitting the exhaust into two tracks independently running to a twin-scroll turbo isolates these pulses from each other and gives everything a clean run to the turbo itself.

It’s a neat video on a good bit of science, and worth a watch in full.

https://jalopnik.com/decoding-the-new-toyota-supras-bmw-engine-1831993336

Snip 1.JPGSnip 2.JPG
 
More Toyota sports cars and hot GR versions in pipeline

GR Supra is the first in a new line of performance-inspired models that could include a reborn MR2

Toyota boss Akio Toyoda has hinted that the firm will produce more sports cars in the future to follow the new Supra coupé.

The revived machine was unveiled at the 2019 Detroit motor show and will be launched in top-level GR trim. It is the first Toyota to feature that badge – short for Gazoo Racing – which will be used for a range of high-performance production models.

Speaking at the Supra’s launch, Toyoda said: “SUVs are nice but, at the end of the day, is there anything better than a tight rear-wheel-drive sports car? I hope this won’t be the last Toyota sports car you see from us in the future.”

Although Toyota has not disclosed which other models will receive GR versions, there are several possibilities. The GT86 and Yaris (due to its use in world rallying) would be natural choices and insiders reckon a hot version of the new Corolla will “inevitably” be offered, to help re-establish that nameplate in Europe.

Autocar has previously revealed that the firm is considering reviving the MR2, possibly as an electric sports car, and a GR version could act as a range-topper for that line.

The GRMN badge, previously seen on a hot Yaris, is reserved for limited-edition performance models, and the company will also offer a GT Sport trim level.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/more-toyota-sports-cars-and-hot-gr-versions-pipeline
 
Prior Design To Sup Up Toyota Supra’s Looks in 2020

It seems as though Toyota’s fast approaching Supra is gaining popularity by the day, this time European tuner Prior Design just revealed its plans for the new Japanese sports car in the form of a render. The pictures reveal a wilder looking Supra with enhanced aerodynamics.

The 3.0-litre six-cylinder turbocharged unit sourced from BMW (which is fully visible with the German brand’s badges retained) may not be as tuneable as the 2JZ in the previous Supra, but according to Auto Evolution the new straight-six engine should be able to punch well over 450 hp (335 kW) without tuners having to fiddle with its internals. If these figures are true, they should be able to give the new Toyota Supra enough street cred to bet against players in serious leagues, which is quite impressive considering the underdog reputation the sports car inherits.

While the change in powertrain may have cost the Supra some of its aftermarket pedigree, its styling remains being a playground for tuners such as Prior Design, which plans to give it a wilder look judging from the renders. From the front it has a more menacing look thanks to a new bumper and vented bonnet. Prior Design has also designed beefier fenders with racy vents, a ground effects kit and a rear wing. Surprisingly, not much else was done to the rear end but the flared wheel arches with large wheels that fill them out still give it a race car-like look from the back.

With Toyota getting some assistance from BMW in developing the sports car, the new Supra promises to be reasonably potent even in factory form. Moreover, while the new engine may not be as tuner-friendly as purists probably prefer it to be, but it would still be interesting to see how they’ll work with it.

https://www.zero2turbo.com/2019/01/prior-design-to-sup-up-toyota-supras-looks-in-2020.html

IMG_0259.JPG

IMG_0260.JPG
 
What It Would Take to Give the 2020 Toyota Supra the Manual Gearbox It Deserves

Despite years of hype, the 2020 Toyota Supra comes with one major crushing disappointment: It’s only only available with an eight-speed automatic transmission. While we shouldn’t hold our breath for a manual Supra since no concrete plans have been shared, we can dig into the BMW parts catalog to see whether a manual swap would be possible.

The easiest path to our manual swap might be to look at the European spec 2019 BMW Z4 2.0i, which will be available with a manual transmission.

While that transmission is not a good choice for the Supra since it only comes mated to the four-cylinder engine, and in the U.S. market the Supra is six-cylinder only for now, the surrounding components can be useful.

One of the bigger pieces in doing a manual swap may have already been taken care of by BMW, as the manual version of the Z4 appears to use the exact same firewall as the Supra. This means that even though the Supra is not available with the manual, all the mounting points for a clutch pedal and clutch master cylinder should already be present.

Using the same firewall between cars is not unusual, especially in the case of BMW, as the E46 M3 had provisions for a clutch pedal even in the SMG version. Since we know that the Z4 clutch pedal and master cylinder will mount to the car, they can be ordered from European BMW dealers once the parts become available to solve that part of the equation.

The hydraulics that lead from the master cylinder to the slave cylinder can also be used and will likely mount in the Supra the same way that they mount in the Z4 so no custom lines should be required. The pieces are also very similar to the ones used on the last-gen 340i here in the U.S. so those could likely be also made to fit with some modifications.

That leads us into the next portion of the swap, which is choosing the right gearbox. Our answer may come from the 340i as it uses a variant of the same B58 3.0L engine and is available with a manual. The bellhousing pattern on the 340i engine and the Supra engine appears to be the same so the six-speed manual GS6-4BZ gearbox should bolt right up.

While this is the best available choice at the moment, it is important to note that the Supra produces 33 more lb-ft of torque than the Euro-spec 340i. While it should be within the tolerance range of that gearbox, this is something to bear in mind.

Supplementary pieces for the transmission such as the linkages and shifter can be grabbed from the 340i as they will bolt up directly to that gearbox but they may require some customization to be set at the correct length to match up to the shifter hole in the cabin. Alternatively, a Z4 shifter and linkages can be combined with the parts to minimize the fabrication once they are available for purchase.

The rest of the hardware, such as the driveshaft, will probably have to be customized since the new gearbox will most likely not be the same length but that part can be taken care of by most driveshaft shops for a few hundred dollars.

The only unknown piece of the swap right now is the electronics, since the ECU in the Supra will be looking for an automatic transmission and will go into a limp once it doesn’t find one. But luckily, there is precedent for that modification as well. Since the Supra uses a standard BMW ECU, or DME as they call it, the coding for the transmission should be editable. Once tuners are able to access it, the automatic transmission settings can be removed.

Based on these pieces in the parts catalog it appears that a manual swap will be a fairly straightforward proposition on the Supra. I am sure that we’ll see some swapped cars fairly quickly after they start deliveries.

https://jalopnik.com/what-it-would-take-to-give-the-2020-toyota-supra-the-ma-1832173633

Supra.JPG
 
Toyota Supra TRD Performance Line Concept Gets Teased

The fifth-generation of the Toyota Supra has arrived after it debuted around two weeks ago at the Detroit Auto Show and it seems Toyota Racing Development is eager to show how it can amplify the sports coupe.

We will get our first look at the Toyota GR Supra Performance Line Concept TRD on the 9th of February thanks to the Osaka Automesse held in the Kansai region in Japan.

This will give future Supra owners a taste of things to come as far as the many ways you will be able to upgrade their cars with TRD bits and pieces.

Details about the forthcoming Supra Performance Line Concept TRD are not available at this point, but we’ll probably see some changes to the body and minor hardware tweaks for the suspension and brakes.

For those hoping for some power gains, we would not hold our breath for this.

https://www.zero2turbo.com/2019/02/toyota-supra-trd-performance-line-concept-gets-teased.html

Snip.jpg
 
#ICYMIT: Toyota launched its iconic Supra sportscar 33 years ago, 5th-gen headed for SA

Toyota officially launched the iconic Supra on February 6 back in 1986, 33 years ago.

The Japanese brand recently revived the much-loved performance car with the launch of the fifth-generation (A90) scheduled to arrive in South Africa later this year.

A Japanese legend

A host of design and engine changes took place over the years, moving from the then 'box-shaped' from the first generation to the much rounder Mk IV, made famous in the movie The Fast and the Furious.

It is considered by many to be the rival of the Nissan Skyline GT-R, producing similar power from later generation 6-cylinder engines.

Here's to the Toyota Supra and many more happy returns.

https://www.wheels24.co.za/WildOnWh...r-33-years-ago-5th-gen-headed-for-sa-20190207
 
Toyota Supra TRD Concept Revealed

Is the new Toyota Supra too demure for your liking? Well, maybe the Supra TRD will get your attention...

The Supra nameplate has been resurrected and Toyota’s latest rear-wheel-drive creation is expected to hit South African shores in June or July 2019. However, Toyota Racing Development (TRD) has gone to work to create this Supra TRD Concept in an effort to showcase its modification potential.

The Supra TRD Concept is fitted with a carbon fibre front splitter to increase downforce while also reducing lift at high speed. The concept is also equipped with carbon side skirts as well as rear carbon spats and a carbon spoiler mounted on the boot lid. The doors also gain additional aerodynamic garnish to enhance airflow towards the rear. The concept rides on lightweight 19-inch forged aluminium wheels with a mesh spoke design.

While the visual treatment gives the Supra a wider and more aggressive stance, its engine remains unchanged. The Supra TRD Concept is powered by a 3.0-litre twin-scroll turbocharged 6-cylinder engine with 250 kW and 495 Nm of torque which is directed to the rear wheels using an 8-speed automatic transmission.

https://www.cars.co.za/motoring_news/toyota-supra-trd-concept-revealed/46100/

Supra TRD Concept 1.jpgSupra TRD Concept 2.JPGSupra TRD Concept 3.JPGSupra TRD Concept 4.JPG
 
Toyota Supra gets more swagger with TRD Concept

Toyota’s TRD performance division has pulled the covers off the GR Supra Performance Line Concept, designed to give prospective buyers a taste of how their cars could be accessorised in future.

The concept is adorned with a range of lightweight and aerodynamics-enhancing carbon fibre exterior parts, including a front spoiler that reduces downforce, side skirts that lower the centre of gravity (albeit very slightly), a decorative door garnish, as well as rear spats that help to improve stability, and the obligatory boot spoiler.

The TRD Supra rides on a set of unique 19-inch TRD alloy wheels finished in black.

No performance upgrades have been announced as yet, so in this case the BMW-sourced 3-litre straight-six turbopetrol continues to produce 250kW and 500Nm, for a 4.3-second 0-100km/h sprint. Power, of course, goes to the back wheels through an eight-speed automatic gearbox.

But that’s not to say that TRD is not concocting something that’s a little hotter on the performance front, stating on its website that “the genealogy of TRD high performance cars will continue to evolve further from here”.

https://www.iol.co.za/motoring/late...a-gets-more-swagger-with-trd-concept-19235509
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X