Comments on: Toyota’s future lineup Supraless; further focus on fuel economy

By: beatusmongous

beatusmongous — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:14:03 +0000

Those screw tensioners are a pain in the @$$, aren’t they, Olds? I’m laughing because I know exactly what you’re talking about, and I just replaced my serpentine belt about six weeks ago. It wasn’t funny then, that’s for sure.

By: Z06ified

Z06ified — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:48:31 +0000

Great news for the future success of the Corvette.

I find it funny how Toyota can’t figure out how to produce a sports car with more than 400hp that also gets almost 30 MPG highway like GM can with the Corvette.

By: olds307

olds307 — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:41:04 +0000

MAYBE NOW TOYOTA WILL FIGURE OUT HOW TO USE SPRING TENSIONERS ON THEIR ACCESSORY BELTS INSTEAD OF 1930s TECHNOLOGY MANUAL SCREW TENSIONERS

By: global_lightning

global_lightning — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:40:45 +0000

If not a Supra, at least a RWD Celica. One of my first cars was a 1st generation, 1977 Toyota Celica. That car had great handling, decent acceleration, and good fuel economy. With today’s technology, there’s no reason why Toyota couldn’t have another great sports car in its lineup.

By: DeansterTJ

DeansterTJ — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:51:26 +0000

“there goes touyotas chance of ;looking like tey have a pouldse

Comment by ktulu, posted on August15 at 7:01 pm ”

Did you say “There goes Toyota’s chance of looking like they have a pulse” ?

By: bun_a_gm

bun_a_gm — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:50:47 +0000

The Toyota of the 1990’s I loved so much is gone forever. Unfortunate.

By: DeansterTJ

DeansterTJ — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:50:21 +0000

Too bad….there was a chance for Toyota to rise above total mind-numbing boredom, and now they ****ed themselves in the anus.

By: maxcar

maxcar — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:04:43 +0000

the pic above is closer to a Z replacement than a supra. did toy’ designers switch teams?

By: DrFill

DrFill — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:15:48 +0000

The Supra was pure legend. Toyota has made a mistake in not reissuing the Suprastar!
And with the progress made in V6 mills, with 330HP available from the 3.5 without major retooling, the cost would be easily amortized throughout the lineup.
Keep the car around 3400 lbs., you have a nice 13.3 quarter.
The othr side of that coin is it would hard to make it look better than the ‘93, and the pic above is way off the mark.
DrFill

By: ktulu

ktulu — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:01:48 +0000

there goes touyotas chance of ;looking like tey have a pouldse

By: LJ

LJ — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:52:53 +0000

Well, Toyota mentioned that they were supposed to build a smaller than Prius car, and it was reported on sites such as LLN, etc, last year(iirc)..what happened to that?
It was supposed to cost less than the Prius, too.
Hunh.
Well, looks like Honda’s Insight will eat some of Toyota’s Hybrid Lunch, next year, when they launch the 5 door Insight, and supposedly, a short time later, the CR-Z(reported here, on LLN, last Fall, iirc)….3 door, sporty version hybrid, plus, the rumored Fit Hybrid,might be here.
Yeaaahhh… an(Insight/Base version) 18,500 dollar hybrid, or a(base model/version) 23K+msrp Prius/hybrid…Wow..which one will most people(if they don’t need a bigger car like the Prius) choose?

By: howsmydriving

howsmydriving — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:32:15 +0000

$4 gas is so last week.

By: beatusmongous

beatusmongous — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:30:49 +0000

Basuru.

By: jumpoffit

jumpoffit — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:12:31 +0000

geez, they could have atleast built small numbers of a successor to the supra and just built whatever crap mobile in they wanted to in droves- but no!!!!! they kill the supra, kill the MR2- kill the celica, this subaru better be worth it-

By: hbcbob3

hbcbob3 — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:32:13 +0000

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again….Toyota is a lackluster car company building passionless cars for the average Joe Nobody idiot.

By: RaineMan

RaineMan — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:44:09 +0000

I still maintain that Toyota needs to break out the old molds and stampings for the Supra. They could manufacture the same car that went out of production in the late 90’s with no changes at all… and they would sell out at 25k a piece. I see Supras on the used market going for 20k+ every day… turbo or not, well cared for or badly abused. It is still one of the sexiest cars ever to exist… and like a 69 Camaro it will never get old.
I guess Toyota is happy with its image as the geriatric car company. They see their Scion divison being hurt badly by its youth marketting scheme, but seemed unconcerned that their main-line automobiles are targetted at 50-70 year olds. Those of us in the 25-45 bracket want cars too… and many of us aren’t happy with generic everyman transportation… fuel efficient and reliable or not.

By: mayer_ray_nagin

mayer_ray_nagin — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:27:05 +0000

The old Supra from the 80s was way cool. That concept above was an abortion that I can live without. No loss.

By: yarddog82abn

yarddog82abn — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:14:54 +0000

DOG-DAM B.S.!!!!!!!! The last Supra was on of the most iconic cars of the import tunner class… Toyota dose not need a $100.000.00 sports car ! All this got to kill Lambo’s & Turbo 911’s is not what Toyota needs, they need what the last Supra was all about. It was about competing with the Chevy Camaro, Ford Cobra Mustang, BMW M3, and making 1,300hp with bolt on turbos kits!!! If they just try to keep it simple and let the tunner market do it’s job they will have a WINNER!!!!! So F@<# the Lambo’s & the Turbo 911’s and let’s give my Shelby a run for it’s money!!! Lets let the working-man sport car “GO TO WAR” Import’s VS. Domestics!! COME-ON!!!!!! “Bring it Bitches”

By: A True Gear Head

A True Gear Head — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:00:00 +0000

i win