DAY 8: Making Toyota Great Again

HAPPY NEW YEAR! And today’s post needs no particular introduction. Toyota has been the talk of the town.

Yes, the folks from Japan that sell your basic commuter cars like the Fortuner, the Corolla, the Prado, the Camry and the Yaris have actually gotten very interesting. They are back to their sportscar-y ways!

And the most anticipated of them all? The all new Toyota Supra.

The JDM superstar is back. This time with a lot of BMW badging as well. Toyota could not build this by themselves ‘cos it would’ve cost them a whole lot trying to develop a new inline-6 and a chassis. So they approached the current world champion in inline-6 powertrains to help them out. BMW also co-developed the new Z4 along with the Supra.

What came out is a beautiful looking (we think it is), front engine, rear wheel driven sports car from Toyota! It makes 335hp (a few dyno charts show it makes way more) mated to an AUTOMATIC ZF gearbox. Now before everyone loses their sh-pfiz-it, let us just say that the ZF gearbox is actually pretty epic for an automatic and it hurls this machine to 60 mph in 3.8 seconds.

This isn’t the only car Toyota brings us. They also gave us the Supra’s baby brother – the GT86. The GT86 is a fantastic drivers car. The 200hp inline-4 may not sound like a lot but the thing is all about rear-wheel drive fun – and fun it is.

Again, Toyota couldn’t do this on their own either – enter Subaru. That inline 4 is a boxer unit from Subaru.

Also, Toyota doesn’t stop there. This year, they take the Yaris; gives it 275hp; sends power to all wheels and call it the Yaris GR-4. A hot hatch. Yes.

Toyota is on a spree with no signs of slowing down. There is even talk about them getting into bizznizz with Porsche to make a mid-engine car (looking at you MR2).

This is crazy. Good crazy. Let it flow.

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