Toyota Mexico Accidentally Tweets Supra Video Ahead Of Schedule
We’re not supposed to be seeing the new Toyota Supra until its debut at the Detroit Motor Show on Monday, but it seems a social media manager got trigger happy.
Toyota Mexico Tweeted a promotional video showing the car in full and without camouflage, and although it has since been deleted, the Internet doesn’t forget. Have a quick search on YouTube, and it’s not hard to find multiple uploads. We’ve uploaded a few screen grabs from the accidentally released video here.
The look of the car really doesn’t come as much of a surprise. Partly disguised prototypes have been bandied about by Toyota since the Goodwood Festival of Speed last summer, and during the Christmas period, some low-resolution press photos of the Supra leaked onto the Web.
Regardless, it’s still nice to see the final product in motion, having waited so long for it - the FT-1 concept that previewed the Supra was revealed five years ago.
The production version is based on the same platform as the new BMW Z4, and the sports car will share a 3.0-litre turbocharged straight-six plus eight-speed automatic gearbox with its Bavarian cousin. The team behind the Supra hasn’t spoken to their counterparts on the Z4 project since 2014, however, so the cars are set to feel quite different despite the shared ingredients.
Toyota had hinted that there’ll be yet more teasers of the car before the debut, but at this stage, we’re struggling to see the point.
Want to see the car in full officially? That’ll be happening on 14 January at 09:40 EST/14:40 GMT.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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“Team behind the Supra hasn’t spoken to their counterparts on the Z4 project since 2014”
Just testing them together.
Some people literally have the audacity to compare the a80 to the a90. They are literally 25 years apart
This is not true and not a secret, it was revealed in a car show in Malaysia, watch this video by a Malaysian car vlogger: https://youtu.be/pi-DuAk2oyo
WE ALREADY KNOW WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, OKAY? THESE AREN’T EVEN LEAKS ANYMORE, YOU IMBECILE
Everybody Cashing in on the Supra hype with the constant posts. Really getting tired of all this original content
Nice BMW Supra with a Toyota badge.
Definitely too much hype, no idea how the market will react.
new supra bad, upmanuelles to the left
Don’t even know why they’re bothering with this one. Toyota has been turning out one horrible car after another for 45 years, but they were at least smart enough to know what a flop the old Supra was.