The Car That Is Stuck In Between
This car is stuck in-between because of the fact that it wants to please the Supra fans and the average buyer at the same time. It has also been reported that several ‘vents’ of this car have been blocked out because of the fact that they were cooling the engine too much and they wanted the tuning companies to make use of them.
Now, if we are to believe that, what they are essentially saying is that they made provisions for better efficiency and cooling, but didn’t utilise it for themselves and made it for tuning companies. If Toyota were concerned about the tuning factor of these cars, they would have launched a manual option from the get-go, but they didn’t.
It is also reported that Toyota themselves were considering utilising all of these extra air vents and rear wing provisions to make a better variant of this car. This makes perfect sense, a gradual rollout of all variants of this car. This would make the car’s development a bit more sustainable. Toyota used the Supra name mainly to gain market presence. The car’s name wasn’t decided until the closing stages of development. This is important, as that means that Toyota didn’t see this coupe as a successor to the Supra when designing it.