Next Supra Reportedly Part Of New Toyota Performance Sub Brand

Supra rumour mill latest suggests up to 400bhp, hybrid and non-hybrid petrols plus the creation of a Toyota performance sub-brand
Next Supra Reportedly Part Of New Toyota Performance Sub Brand

Ah, the Toyota Supra rumour mill. That ever turning, frequently contradictory rumour mill that we can’t help but pay attention to. Wondering what it has for us today? Allow us to continue…

The latest report comes from Autocar, and the big news being touted is that the Supra will form the beginnings of a new Toyota performance sub brand. Toyota’s take on BMW’s M Division, if you will.

This is something which has been rumoured in the past, but has failed to materialise. With a Supra successor however, Toyota would have the perfect product to launch such a thing, particularly as power outputs of up to 400bhp are still being reported.

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The 400bhp, range-topping version is expected by many to be a twin-turbo V6 hybrid, and the presence of a six-cylinder petrol/electric motor combo was sort of confirmed by an electric motor-like whine heard in spy footage released earlier in the year (above). Autocar expects there to be 2.0-litre, four-cylinder models lower down in the pecking order, with up to 300bhp on tap.

Since it’d be blasphemy for a BMW to run a V6 instead of a straight-six, it’s expected that Munich’s side of this joint sports car project with Toyota - which will result in a Z4-replacing ‘Z5’ - will run its own engines. We can anticipate the usual range of four and six-cylinder engines, and who knows, maybe there’ll be a Z5M with the M3/M4’s angry S55 straight-six.

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Comments

iCypher(Joel Chan)

TRD is back? Yay? N-No?

11/24/2016 - 15:38 |
304 | 2

to hell with the supra name, call it the TRD LZR

11/24/2016 - 16:55 |
362 | 0

I hear it’ll be Gazoo Racing

11/24/2016 - 17:32 |
4 | 0

MCM: TRD tune Fords ;)

11/24/2016 - 21:23 |
0 | 0
Akashneel

The hype ia real…

11/24/2016 - 15:41 |
10 | 0
The Silver Paseo EL54

TRD 4000GT i suggest

11/24/2016 - 15:43 |
8 | 0
Anonymous

sub-brand.. back again with this scion nonsense are we?

11/24/2016 - 15:44 |
80 | 0
Porschephile

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Didn’t learn their lesson the first time.

11/24/2016 - 20:48 |
2 | 0
Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Scion was intended to appeal to the youth market. This would be, as mentioned in the article, a division within the Toyota brand that would focus on high performance versions of new and already existing cars. Think M/Division and SRT.

11/24/2016 - 22:39 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Scion was a brand in itself. A sub-brand ia different, and more like the Range Rover lineup in Land Rover or the AMG lineup in Mercedes.

11/27/2016 - 09:17 |
0 | 0
Anonymous

Damn, would really like it to be an I6 not a v8 :/

11/24/2016 - 15:57 |
26 | 2
DIY Or Die

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

V6

11/24/2016 - 16:13 |
4 | 0
DCV 1

Bring back the 3S-GTE!

11/24/2016 - 16:37 |
0 | 2
Caro

In reply to by DCV 1

No, we need a new race spec I4. Preferably with at least 350hp in production spec.

11/24/2016 - 19:30 |
0 | 2
Anonymous

I thought TRD was the sub-performance brand.

11/24/2016 - 16:39 |
16 | 0
Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

With all the TRD pro trucks and SUVs

11/24/2016 - 16:40 |
12 | 0
Anonymous

Just harry up ok?! I need this to depreciate before I graduate

11/24/2016 - 17:06 |
66 | 0
Anas "SadButStillSad"

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

just harry up…. oh 2dirty4me

11/24/2016 - 17:10 |
10 | 40
Anonymous

By god it better be affordable if it’s only got 400hp. Look at the new Camaro SS, it’s got 455hp and handles really well and is less than $50k.

11/24/2016 - 17:07 |
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Tom kelley

Put the damn 2jz back in baby

11/24/2016 - 17:14 |
32 | 0

Or update the 2jz and give birth to the 3jz! Basically the 2jz only with more stock power and new technology.

11/27/2016 - 23:34 |
2 | 0