Sneak Peak: 2007 Supra

scionlife · Joined: 10 Apr 2003 Posts: 4137 Location: scionlife.com

Original article found here:
http://www.detnews.com/2004/autosconsumer/0411/10/f03-323632.htm

Autosinsider.com Sneak Peak
2007 Toyota Supra
By Paul Lienert

Engineers from Toyota Motor Co.p. visited Germany's famed Nurburgring racetrack last month to test a prototype sports car shrouded in mystery.

Spy shots of the session have provoked widespread speculation on the identity of the vehicle and Toyota's production plans.

Among the outrageous guesses are that the prototype is a mule hiding either a 500-horsepower V-10 engine or a high-performance hybrid powertrain.

Sources in Japan say it?s likely an early test bed for the next Supra, pulled from the U.S. market several years ago because of poor sales.

Toyota insiders say the reincarnated Supra should reach the market in 2006 as a 2007 model. The rear-wheel drive coupe, being targeted at the Nissan 350Z, will be powered by a twin-cam 3.5-liter V-6 and priced from well under $30,000.

toastbox · Joined: 11 Mar 2005 Posts: 1326 Location: Burke, Va

looks like a cross between a corvette and I don't know what else.....Toyota please ditch the wing!!

MightyHalo · Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 106 Location: Orange, CA

Looks like the Lexus LF-A concept car[/url][/quote]

KINGxOFxSKA · Posted: 9/26/05 8:44PM Post subject:

here ya go...

sciontc313 · Joined: 21 Mar 2005 Posts: 1562 Location: Jacksonville, FL

i heard thats a Lexus LF-A concept car :doh: im confuse.......

whatever it is, it looks good to me to be a SUPRA....

sciontc313 · Joined: 21 Mar 2005 Posts: 1562 Location: Jacksonville, FL

here some pixs of Lexus LF-A concept car... it looks the same to me... hehe!

gnar-de-gwar · Joined: 07 Jul 2005 Posts: 429 Location: Temecula, CA

ahh, you know how it is, toyota and lexus are the same thing basically, i figure that if they have that car under the lexus name it screams "high class sports car" but under toyota its like "oh a japanese sports car" because you know...the US is kinda dumb like that IMO

bubblemyster · Posted: 9/26/05 9:35PM Post subject:

whatever it is, its going to be hard to beat the mkiv supra tt. Only time will tell.

asirvr4 · Joined: 10 Feb 2004 Posts: 98 Location: Muscat, Oman

i think it will come in the us market as a lexus LF-A but in the japan it will be a supra
i swear i will buy the supra if it was a beautiful car
it might be powerful more than any sports car in europe or the US in its class

Serialk1llr · Joined: 21 Aug 2005 Posts: 837 Location: Cincinnati, OH

Sadly, I don't think I could ever love anything that does not look like the Mark IV. If it is in fact a genuine supra, you bet i'll be trying to gobble one up if i can get my greasy hands on a Mark IV by then.

Just not digging the IS300 either :(

LoungeLizard · Joined: 25 Sep 2005 Posts: 72 Location: Lakewood, CO

bubblemyster wrote: whatever it is, its going to be hard to beat the mkiv supra tt. Only time will tell.

And it probably wont. we will have to wait and see though.

Voltairecim · Joined: 20 Jun 2005 Posts: 191 Location: California

toastbox wrote: looks like a cross between a corvette and I don't know what else.....Toyota please ditch the wing!!

You know better than to think Toyota will keep that wing on it. I think from the side it looks beautiful, but that front end... :no:

rbloedow · Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 518 Location: Panama City, FL

asirvr4 wrote: i think it will come in the us market as a lexus LF-A but in the japan it will be a supra
i swear i will buy the supra if it was a beautiful car
it might be powerful more than any sports car in europe or the US in its class

Actually - Lexus is now a global brand. They have separate design studio's from Toyota's regular models - and all new Lexus models from now on will only be Lexus models - they will have no Toyota counterpart. All of the new Lexus models emcompass the "L-Finesse" design language.

This shot looks like it is indeed the LF-A concept - which will mean this is not the new Supra.

wibblywobbly · Joined: 17 Sep 2005 Posts: 494 Location: New Jerusalem

Supra is to 350Z as LF-A is to G35 Coupe....

Guessing this will have a more poweful version of the 3.5 in the new IS with 310 - 320 hp....

Complication · Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Posts: 790 Location: Atizzle

Quote: The rear-wheel drive coupe, being targeted at the Nissan 350Z, will be powered by a twin-cam 3.5-liter V-6 and priced from well under $30,000.

if sooo....my tC could be getting a new big brother..

koasterking · Joined: 05 Jun 2004 Posts: 351 Location: Hunterdon Co., NJ

Can;t wait to see better pics of it. I think the LF-A is a hot , sexy beast!! Yeah baby!!

dexter_5000 · Joined: 02 Sep 2005 Posts: 887 Location: New Hampshire

they need a sports car but as most enthusist have agreed it shouldn't be under the supra name. that legacy should be left to be what it is. not something a car should have to live up to with todays emmission standards and such.

starrwulfe · Joined: 27 Jan 2004 Posts: 212 Location: A-town, GA

ddddiidd someone say SUPRA??? I had that mkIV tt supra...engine. I put that engine into a MkI Celica Supra. May the beast rest in peace. 2008 may see me buy a new one if this pans out.

Joe_Dezod · Joined: 30 Dec 2004 Posts: 2911 Location: Mesa, AZ

Damn just when I was convinced the Evo IX was my next project...

cmndrjamesbond · Posted: 9/27/05 5:42PM Post subject:

If they're coming out with a new supra, thats not it. That article is almost a year old, and predates the unveiling of the LFA concept, which, guess what, is what is pictured in that photo.