Spy shots of 2007 Toyota Supra.

Speedster25 · 12-05-04, 06:21 PM

Nice, I saw an article about it in Car and Driver. There will be a 480-500 hp V10 engine in it. This should be a great thing to come.

LateNightCable · 12-05-04, 07:52 PM

450-500 hp. V10? This would raise the price substantially, which is really pretty bad. It was a 44k car.

It really sucks when these reletively inexpensive performance cars lose their way and jump into the big dollar category. They lose some of their magic, regardless of their new found performance envelope. Just who are they trying to compete with here? They should find their place and stick to it.

bleh · 12-05-04, 10:28 PM

yea im with lnc. i guess they are trying to compete with a jap car with 4 less cylinders, as far as price goes.

i doubt itll feel as crisp as an nsx. itll probably be tubby and wont hook off the line, much like the supras of the 90s.

whatever. i dont think that there will be anything worth while in it. most jap cars need turbos.

that wing is GHEY

skyline_r34v · 12-06-04, 12:43 AM

V10??

uhhhhh no.

The base is supposed to be some sort of stringed out V6 and the top of the line is supposedly said to be either a high-revving V8 or a turbo'd V8.

It's looking sexy and exotic.
Since when is $44,000 for a car NOT cheap??? That's not inexpensive, if you ask me $44,000's is expensive.

They said they're trying to not get it above of what it use to cost when it was in production.

Speedster25 · 12-06-04, 01:40 AM

I'm just saying what I read from Car and Driver. They said a 4.5 liter V10 producing 500 hp.

bleh · 12-06-04, 03:03 PM

tt v8 would be their best bet. but it still wont be able to break 12s without slicks!

when we say something is expensive you have to consider everything else that is similar. compared to a corvette? same price range. but will the performance be the same? if it costs that much and performs like the z then its expensive, but if it performs like and is as comfortable as a gallardo(or 360cs hahahah

) then its a steal.

but all that still really doesnt matter that much, cus that wing is so fruity!

LateNightCable · 12-06-04, 09:54 PM

Come to think of it, that dinky wing is pretty ghey, it makes the car look like a designer hand bag

. Purely for testing I imagine.

A 44k car is not "cheap" like a Neon, this is true, but it's still very attainable, and it's all reletive like Bleh pointed out. A V10 could easily jump the cost up well past the 60-70k mark. That's when things begin to get seriously expensive. A factory Supra should not cost that much. Even a V8 or a V-anything seems like a corruption. A straight-six GT is the only way to go, or it's not a Supra.

And with the way Toyota builds those sixes, you won't ever need a V8 to get Grande power out of the Supra. But, since Toyota is phasing out I-6's, the last Supra - was probably the last Supra.

stormhalter · 12-23-04, 06:25 PM

They aren't producing a V10 model. That car in the spyshot is just their mule, carrying a V-10 500HP. Just think of it as a concept car whos full concepts never make it to the market, like always.

I'm sure a V-6 or V-8 TT is more believeable. The old Supras were I-6? Why are they straying away from it?

wEstSide · 12-23-04, 08:45 PM

I'm not sure this is a Supra. How do you guys know this won't be a Lexus?