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B58 is one of the best engines made.
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@Cell1000bc Toyota made sure it will remain reliable. These drivetrains are amazing.
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@Barbwire710 Toyota will not build their own. Mainly cause they will have to sell it for over 100k.
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@steelheader2543 Honda and Acura have much more problems these days. They have the highest recalls and lowest customer satisfaction lately. BMW made it to consumer reports top 10 highest ratings. Honda didn’t even make it. It was all Toyota and BMW. The B58 is the best engine to get from them. It’s all forged. They put tons of improvements into it. Toyota even helped with a lot of things to make it super reliable. It’s also cheap to modify. Under 1500 dollars makes over 500hp. Super safe too.
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@steelheader2543 Toyota in general makes boring vehicles to drive. Everything they have that is fun is not even made by them. Subaru makes the 86 and BMW the Supra. I was hoping Toyota would make an amazing off road vehicle with BMW and still use the B58. That would have been awesome!
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@alphanation368 The RX7 was the car to get from that generation. It had quality parts. Supra felt like truck parts thrown on inside. I built few Supras with 2JZ’s. By the time to cha he all suspension to handle 1500 hp, send car to body shop and paint it to perfection and all the funds to build engine and transmission to 1500 hp, you are over 100k. Unless you work for free. I’m in business to make money. Parts are not cheap. Plus the old ones needed a ton of work. You need to replace everything from harness, interior, lightings, etc. it’s not cheap.
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@Barbwire710 Toyota won’t spend R&D on a limited run sports car. Unless they do a collaboration with another company to split cost. Especially now with high inflation and loan rates super high for investors. Investors wouldn’t do it years ago when borrowing was 0 percent, so they won’t now at 8.9. Toyota has its sedans that sell well and SUV and crossovers. Thats their bread and butter. A two door sports car won’t even make enough sales to pay for a 1/3 of R&D. Even if they got 100k for it. Under 10k units, they would need to get 200k and that’s not gonna happen. They will use those funds and build LFA instead. Toyota wants to eventually move towards all hybrid gas sipping vehicles. Their trucks and SUV’s will be the exception. Toyota chose to collaborate with BMW based on Z4 platform. Toyota helped with longevity of parts. They were extremely impressed with new BMW architecture and drivetrains.
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@Barbwire710 I don’t see Toyota building a 2 door sports car these days. Sales on sports cars are very poor, unless it’s a Porsche. For Toyota to R&D, in today’s high interest loan to borrow, in order to build assembly plant, it would make no sense. They would lose money. If they sold 10k units in 2 years, the price would need to be $150k. Plus it has to be hybrid. At that price, it would need to be over 500hp. Investors don’t want that high risk. It’s a waste. If investors say no, it’s a no go. Investors want SUV’s and crossovers with hybrids. High volume sales. Same reason why Lexus didn’t build a true ISF. They just built a parts bin car and called it IS500. It was all investors would accept. Toyota is on a roll with everything else and want to keep it that way. They are spending money to expand in Mexico. I could see Lexus building the LFA for 250k before a Supra at 100k. That would make more sense.
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@steelheader2543 I have lots of experience with both of them. When those cars were built, it was a different time. Honda did ok with sales, but it wasn’t as high as they had anticipated. Newer NSX’s sales were poor, so they stopped selling them. Nobody wanted to spend 150k plus on a Honda. Honda was known as economic cars. Not super cars. Lexus lost a fortune with the LFA. Many sat at dealers for years. We bought one for 260k and sat on it for years. Luckily the value went up and we made a good hit on it. Toyota and Lexus don’t want a repeat of the LFA. Their last Supra they made had poor sales. I bought a 98 Supra Turbo at an auction in 2000 for 20k. Not many bid on it. Sold it a few years later after Fast and Furious for 50k. Problem is what their competition is. Why buy an LFA or NSX, when you can buy a Huracan, McLaren, Porsche, R8, or even a C8 vette poor man’s exotic. Audi even stopped the R8. No point with it because you can get a Huracan which is same car at same price. Even Audi had to raise its prices to make a profit to where it wasn’t worth it. I’ve been in the specialty and exotic car market for a long time. Only two door sports cars that sell extremely well are Corvettes and Porsches. Everyone wants performance sedans or SUV’s. Then the rest is trucks. Look at BMW, they sell more M3’s than M2’s and M4’s combined by a huge margin.
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@steelheader2543 If you want a cool exotic car for under 100k that’s powered by Toyota, get a Lotus Emira. Those are amazing cars. True drivers car, and you can get in manual only. Only downfall is getting one is impossible. Many are on a three year waiting list and just getting them now. That’s a long wait.
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Supras came out 45 years ago.
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MK4 is such an old outdated car. Smelled like melted crayons. Awful paints and bodies rusted. You know the Supra only from being modded with 100k invested and from Fast and Furious. Go find a stock MK4 and let’s see how you like it. I bet you won’t. Everything is so old and outdated. It’s just slapped together.
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@alphanation368 The new B58 drivetrain is amazing. You can modify them to 1500 hp. No need for anything more than that. 1000 hp is more than extremely capable on the road. Unless you race 1/2 mile. Wasted money past 1200 hp. Still 8 second car. Insane.
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These are excellent cars. It’s a little too fancy and well constructed to be a Toyota. You are right, the Toyota badges make it look weak.
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Supra.
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