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Re: Toyota Supra
Watching NASCAR Xfinity Series qualifying at Daytona. Toyota has branded their entry in the series this year as the Supra. Though ofcourse due to safety factors it looks nothing like the production model.
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I'm very disappointed in where Toyota went with this. They probably won't sell well and Toyota will say there is no demand for a sports car and say they made a wise move not to spend R&D on this. Toyota in general seems to be floundering. From unlimited budgets for cars like the LS to being behind Nissan in EVs and now this!
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Toyota Supra
Could this be Toyotas version of the Cadillac Cimarron? A failure so epic that it winds up sending Toyota into a 20yr. tailspin that they never truly recover from?lol.
Cimarron>Supra
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Re: Toyota Supra
Originally Posted by Eldorado2k
Could this be Toyotas version of the Cadillac Cimarron? A failure so epic that it winds up sending Toyota into a 20yr. tailspin that they never truly recover from? lol.
Cimarron>Supra
Interesting comparison, but I don't know if I fully agree with you. If the Supra fails, only the faithful fans and the the auto enthusiast will notice. 99.99% of American drivers will never even consider the car in the first place, and probably don't even know it exists. The auto buying market as a whole doesn't car about sports cars. Toyota will continue to crank out millions of Camrys, Highlanders, Rav-4's, and Corollas. I'd be willing to bet the production of the Camry in a single day will probably be more than the best-case production run numbers for six months of the Supra. It's a hyper-niche automobile. Toyota is the #2 largest auto producer in the world and the whole reason they partnered with BMW was to reduce development costs, but also financial risk if sales don't meet expectations. If the Supra fails it will be in the auto press for a couple days and then simply become an entry in a Wikipedia page. The company will press on with barely a hick-up. A third party builds the thing in Austria, so Toyota employees won't even be effected if production ends.
The Cimarron was a terrible car based on a shockingly horrible platform even by miserable GM standards of the 80's. That platform wasn't even worthy of the Chevy badge it wore, let alone the Buick, Oldsmobile, or Cadillac. Everything about the car was bad; engine, unibody platform, interior quality, workmanship, the fact it looked a lot like the Cavalier, the whole bit.
The new Supra is a different story. Mechanically, it should be fantastic. The BMW B58 inline is a fantastic power plant. I've driven it first hand in a couple different applications and have never been disappointed by the way it delivers power or it's output. The CLAR platform used in many new BMW models has received rave reviews. Interestingly, there version of the platform used by Toyota is unique to the car since the Z4 will only by sold as a convertible. Car and Driver actually liked the dynamics new Z4 (the foundation for the Supra) better than the 718 Boxter, which is very high praise for the engine, suspension, and overall platform. Toyota commented on tuning the Supra to be even more driver focused than the GT-like Z4, so any driver should be in for a real treat.
The Cimarron was a cheap, badge engineered, turd which totally missed the traditional Caddy buyer's ideal (too small) and didn't live up to what was left of Caddy's reputation at the time. It was terrible regardless of what brand logo GM slapped on the hood and sales were tanking across all the brands. The Supra, if taken in isolation, should be a great car. Toyota's only real sin seems to be using the Supra badge. Had they called it something unique like they did with the F86 (why is that car not a Celica?), I bet the reception would have been totally different. Styling is very Japanese, which these days doesn't seem to resonate well with US customers regardless of whether it's Honda, Acura, Toyota, Nissan, Lexus, etc.
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Originally Posted by Desertnate
Interesting comparison, but I don't know if I fully agree with you. If the Supra fails, only the faithful fans and the the auto enthusiast will notice. 99.99% of American drivers will never even consider the car in the first place, and probably don't even know it exists. The auto buying market as a whole doesn't car about sports cars. Toyota will continue to crank out millions of Camrys, Highlanders, Rav-4's, and Corollas. I'd be willing to bet the production of the Camry in a single day will probably be more than the best-case production run numbers for six months of the Supra. It's a hyper-niche automobile. Toyota is the #2 largest auto producer in the world and the whole reason they partnered with BMW was to reduce development costs, but also financial risk if sales don't meet expectations. If the Supra fails it will be in the auto press for a couple days and then simply become an entry in a Wikipedia page. The company will press on with barely a hick-up. A third party builds the thing in Austria, so Toyota employees won't even be effected if production ends.
The Cimarron was a terrible car based on a shockingly horrible platform even by miserable GM standards of the 80's. That platform wasn't even worthy of the Chevy badge it wore, let alone the Buick, Oldsmobile, or Cadillac. Everything about the car was bad; engine, unibody platform, interior quality, workmanship, the fact it looked a lot like the Cavalier, the whole bit.
The new Supra is a different story. Mechanically, it should be fantastic. The BMW B58 inline is a fantastic power plant. I've driven it first hand in a couple different applications and have never been disappointed by the way it delivers power or it's output. The CLAR platform used in many new BMW models has received rave reviews. Interestingly, there version of the platform used by Toyota is unique to the car since the Z4 will only by sold as a convertible. Car and Driver actually liked the dynamics new Z4 (the foundation for the Supra) better than the 718 Boxter, which is very high praise for the engine, suspension, and overall platform. Toyota commented on tuning the Supra to be even more driver focused than the GT-like Z4, so any driver should be in for a real treat.
The Cimarron was a cheap, badge engineered, turd which totally missed the traditional Caddy buyer's ideal (too small) and didn't live up to what was left of Caddy's reputation at the time. It was terrible regardless of what brand logo GM slapped on the hood and sales were tanking across all the brands. The Supra, if taken in isolation, should be a great car. Toyota's only real sin seems to be using the Supra badge. Had they called it something unique like they did with the F86 (why is that car not a Celica?), I bet the reception would have been totally different. Styling is very Japanese, which these days doesn't seem to resonate well with US customers regardless of whether it's Honda, Acura, Toyota, Nissan, Lexus, etc.
It was a joke...
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Re: Toyota Supra
Originally Posted by Eldorado2k
It was a joke...
Ahhh...the internet strikes again. Couldn't tell your tone.
It does bring up an interesting comparison though of an automaker not knowing their fan base very well. No one wanted a small, cheap Caddy. Apparently the Supra faithful don't want a car that isn't mostly JDM.
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But just to clarify, the Cimarron wasn’t meant for the “ideal” or typical Caddy buyer. It was intended for a new breed of consumer, the car was meant to compete with smaller sporty European cars like the BMW 3, Audi 2000 [or whatever the cheap Audi was], and those type of cars. The problem was the grandsons didn’t follow their grandfathers footsteps when it came time for them to buy into the Cimarron.
The next similar failure was the Catera.
And the next simlar failure was the CTS, however this time the young people somehow bought into the idea and it turned out to be a major success. How that happened is beyond me because IMO that was a horrible car, but it played a big part [along with the Escalade] in saving Cadillac from foreseeable death in the early 2000’s.
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Re: Toyota Supra
Originally Posted by Desertnate
Ahhh...the internet strikes again. Couldn't tell your tone.
Anytime you see 1 of these facesand lol, that means it’s a joke. Lol.
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Re: Toyota Supra
Originally Posted by Desertnate
Apparently the Supra faithful don't want a car that isn't mostly JDM.
That would be correct.
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Re: Toyota Supra
Originally Posted by RZJZA80
That would be correct.
So what becomes of the sports car market? Automakers outside of the exotics, Porsche, and BMW can't afford to go it alone any more. Is the key to not use a traditional model name, or simply not do it at all?
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