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Not surprisingly, Speedhunters readers got a lot more excited than you guys did about the prospect of a Toyota Supra replacement in the works. So someone from their creative department rendered up a possible 2014 offering. What do you think? If something looking like this went into production, would you be excited? I kinda think it just looks like a 350Z, but I never completely got the whole Supra thing anyway. More pics below the jump, and see Speedhunters for more.
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By: 74Furyous 9/28/2011 3:30 PM A little too 350Z/Eclipse. If it does happen, I just hope Toyota gets away from the pudgy with fake scoops look. Form must follow function. |
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By: cknarf 9/28/2011 4:58 PM I prefer cars to actually look like cars. |
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By: gold94corolla 9/28/2011 5:41 PM yeah, the problem with it is that it won't look like that in real life. I'm really not excited about any Toyota anymore. |
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By: tazgts 9/28/2011 6:00 PM It's a cool concept but thats just it, a concept. And @74furious, my alltrac hood scoop is for the stock top mount intercooler (like a Subaru), my mr2 side scoops go to the mid engine bay (like a Ferrari), and the supras side scoops cool the brakes. There all very functional unlike mustang scoops, which air can't even go through cuz there solid plastic =P |
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By: 74Furyous 9/28/2011 6:25 PM @tazgts - scoops that work - I'm all for. One of my big disappointments with Toyota was the hood scoop on the Tacoma - fake. I used to love Toyotas, I still have my 84 Celica but I find the newer ones just look bloated and fat. |
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By: tazgts 9/28/2011 7:06 PM Yeah the new ones suck, 7th gen celi scoop is fake too I just recalled. |
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By: timpalass 9/29/2011 10:53 AM I think it looks sweet. |
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By: Turbo_Rebel07 9/29/2011 12:06 PM I like it, but I wouldn't own it. It looks nothing like the old '90s Supra. It would love it if it flowed better and actually resembled the original's. Not the Nissan 350z. |
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By: iTurbo 9/29/2011 5:25 PM so it's a 370z then? |
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By: Mopar_Ford_101 10/4/2011 3:44 AM its like a 350/370Z an a LFA which a LFA looks like its already the rebirth of the supra. I think the eleanor is the only mustang with working air scoops |
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By: SilverBullit99 10/4/2011 4:45 AM Front end looks well done, simular to the 350Z, buy 2014people might get tired of that look, and the car would look old school. The sides and rear are well designed. Overall I like it, yes I would drive it. |
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By: StreetDemonzCC 10/4/2011 5:31 AM Looks too similar to the Nissan, They need to make it either a updated version of the 3rd gen, or at least get it's own styling. |
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By: TheObelisk 10/4/2011 6:34 AM 7th gen Celica scoop is not non-functional, tazgts. |
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By: JReece 10/4/2011 6:41 AM Yea, I'm with you all. The first thing I thought was it looked like a nice 350Z or 370Z. Average people wouldn't be able to tell them apart. |
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By: georgeboyce1 10/4/2011 6:47 AM 370Z replica. Especially looking from the front of the concept car. GB- |
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By: moomoo00 10/4/2011 7:08 AM ^ agree! ^ |
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By: 99SSCHEVY 10/4/2011 7:09 AM YES THATS A TOTAL COPY CAT OF THE Z.WHATS WITH TOYOTA AND COPYING OTHER CARS AND TRUCKS.THE WORST WAS THE XRUNNER TRUCK.TOTALLY COPYING THE CHEVY XTREME.KEEP COPYING IF YOU WANT YOU SHOULD OF MADE THAT CAR OFF THAT REAL EXPENSIVE LEXUS SPORTS CAR "FORGOT THE NAME OF IT" NOT SOMEBODY ELSES. |
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By: Emeraldknight626 10/4/2011 7:12 AM When will these research and developer teams understand that the CLOUD design is disgusting! It's overdone too much. |
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By: ScreamingYellow2 10/4/2011 7:12 AM looks too much like the new skylines that are out now |
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By: draggindragontoy 10/4/2011 7:13 AM 370z/Skyline front end, Audi R8 and Infiniti Concept rolled into one for the rest of the body. Good looking concept, but not a Supra. |
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By: dmans21 10/4/2011 7:23 AM better have a decent powerplant. |
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By: legalese77 10/4/2011 7:25 AM You peeps are pretty funny. Especially the all caps post about how Toyota is "copying" everyone as evidenced by the image in this article. Did anyone at all read that this is a rendering NOT done by Toyota? "So someone from their [Speedhunters] creative department rendered up a possible 2014 offering." Hilarious. Toyota copied Chebby? Orly? Funny, they must have screwed it up real good since GM had to rob the American taxpayer and liquidate Saturn, Pontiac and Oldsmobile in recent years just to stay in business. Meanwhile, Toyota is prospering. Weird, huh? |
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By: sor118 10/4/2011 7:27 AM They need to just cahnge the styling of the last supra to make it up to date but not overboard and use a 2JZ! Is someone formerly employed by Nissan working for Toyota? |
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By: DeVilleL13 10/4/2011 7:43 AM It looks like a knock off GTR,.....Fail!! wtf is this, the americans did this for years making cars look like rival companies, rubbish!! |
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By: EJN 10/4/2011 7:52 AM Its a toyota badged LFA... = / |
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By: Fozzi58 10/4/2011 7:58 AM I could have sworn this was the new Gallardo 380z |
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By: CHILELINE 10/4/2011 8:00 AM looks like a wanna be 370Z mixed with a GTR and an LFA...as a new car salesman (i dont primarily sell Toyota's, but i do have the ability to sell Toyota's) word has come out that in America there will never be another Performance based Toyota produced. thus if a new Supra were to be released in Japan, if and when it was shipped to the states it would be badged as a Scion, the Young and fearless performance junkie side of Toyota... |
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By: BlazingMX3 10/4/2011 8:14 AM Well the main similarity to the 350Z is the front bumper and center placed cockpit. And the 350Z wasn't really true to the classic Z styling like the 370Z is (with the long hood and cockpit just in front of the rear axles). The 350Z looked more to me like a hopped up new beetle (center cockpit with a bubble shape) when it came out. I agree with several of the guys that it looks very simillar to the Lexus LFA. This 'supra' will probably be the sustainable version of the LFA sold under Toyota's badge. I do hope some of the engineering from the LFA is passed on to the next gen supra... However only time will tell what direction Toyota/Lexus takes this new car, and what price point it will be sold at (I would anticipate something inbetween the 370Z and GTR) It really depends how Toyota/Lexus wants to define it's rivals for the new Supra. |
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By: Govna47 10/4/2011 8:17 AM first thing I though of at a quick glance was a 350z/GT-R mash |
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By: Mmats4runner 10/4/2011 8:20 AM This is crap. I love the 92 to 98 supras. I eventually plan on having one. To make a supra look like a 350 or 370z is just embarrassing and a disgrace to all the supra lovers in the world like me. |
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By: 80-zcamaro 10/4/2011 8:23 AM I like the over all idea, My brother in-law had a 1982 Celica that was one option away from being a Supra but I started to not like them as much when they dropped the Supra and the Celica's were made into front wheel drive. This one has a lot of interesting lines and it is easy enough to say that one design can look like another but think that there are more similarities to the Bugatti Veyron or the Audi R8 then just the 370 Z. What I don't like about this car is the roof line around the door glass. It looks like a huge triangle, I don't know how hard it would be to even get into it. The body line from the top of the fender to me should be a straight line meeting the top of the quarter panel. I never liked it when Toyota started this design with their Camry with the same hump in the tops of the fenders. To me it looks like they forgot to design some fenders for the car and just threw something on from the parts bin, which by the way Nissan copied later and now Mazda is doing it. |
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By: Dittler1991 10/4/2011 8:23 AM Looks like the Love child of a 370z and the FT86 -_- |
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By: Easy416 10/4/2011 8:27 AM It looks like a Nissan |
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By: mc4life27 10/4/2011 8:29 AM Fail. No intrest |
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By: torinoluvr 10/4/2011 8:41 AM It does look like a Nissan, but is nice. |
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By: reverend33 10/4/2011 9:42 AM who is the real designer? top gear featured this last week with an interview w/ the designer. and it had nothing to do with speedhunters? http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/new-toyota-supra-rendering-2011-09-27?imageNo=3 |
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By: reverend33 10/4/2011 9:43 AM wrong link http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/new-toyota-supra-rendering-2011-09-27?imageNo=0 |
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By: Drako2131 10/4/2011 10:18 AM It's sad that toyota is taking a car that once had a very distinguished look and copied the 370z and is calling it their own. If they wanted to copy a car why not try something a little more worth while like the gtr. |
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By: Mopar_Ford_101 10/4/2011 10:59 AM its like a 350/370Z an a LFA which a LFA looks like its already the rebirth of the supra. I think the eleanor is the only mustang with working air scoops |
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By: Dilberto 10/4/2011 12:22 PM Yuck....350Z meets Audi-esque rear end. Whatever happened to originality???? |
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By: natesonskate 10/4/2011 2:02 PM Nissan, start your lawyers. |
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By: redhotroy 10/4/2011 3:22 PM love anything that looks like an excitment to own/drive !! but it looks to me it will only be another dream ( sad ) |
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By: Comrick317 10/4/2011 3:32 PM I like it and for the most part i don't like rice rockets. |
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By: mhorton 10/4/2011 4:31 PM Can I draw a concept of what it might look like too and have it posted for everyone to argue about and freak out that Toyota isn't doing it right since they will surely model it after my sketch? |
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By: MTHIGHMOTORING 10/4/2011 7:02 PM I agree with the 370Z comments |
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By: Danielroque02 10/4/2011 7:25 PM Nothing to get to excited about, it only a concept design |
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By: SomersetMan 10/4/2011 8:00 PM I think it looks like a facelifted 370z. in fact thats what i thought it was at first |
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By: JayJayRYDER 10/4/2011 10:22 PM I don't like the new Toyota's. This is just a stupid concept design, not the actual design model that will hit the streets. Besides no designer will ever design a great looking Supra like the classic. |
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By: frorule 10/5/2011 5:39 AM I remember the Nissan Quest concept looking pretty awesome, also, but we all know how butt-ugly the real things is now don't we? |
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By: Heindrich 10/5/2011 8:43 AM I hate wings but that's what makes the Supra |
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By: Tazman171 10/5/2011 10:25 AM Not a bad concept...if it were a Z! To all the people saying Toyota failed or Nissan should sue...epic fail! Read the article, it clearly states that it is someone's concept design, not Toyota's, DUH! Having owned an '82 with an '89 turbo motor I would love to see a retro throwback look but what they really need to do is take the design of the '98 Supra twin turbo and add a little mean to it, that would be great. |
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By: Maypep_Necro 10/5/2011 10:44 PM Mostly looks like a celica than a supra, look the real pictures: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_FT-86 |
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By: metaphysico 10/6/2011 6:33 AM Wow, I guess everyone has missed the ft86. |
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By: skater334 10/6/2011 3:47 PM I agree it looks like a 350Z. However, if this is what it came out to be, I think it'd be a luke-warm hit. People would buy at first, but most people would wait until it was out dated and buy it when its cheap. |
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By: robc916 10/7/2011 8:48 AM Too much like a 350z...and they're trying to make it look too futuristic. On top of that, I guarantee that the scoops are non-functioning |
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By: OutskirtsCustoms 10/7/2011 10:52 AM Sexy but a little too much like the Z, also the roof looks funny being all glass, put a body color targa top and a spoiler on it and it'd be ready to go as the new Z but a supra needs to me more. |
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By: skidracer66 10/7/2011 10:50 PM Yeah the front end does look too much like a 350/370. |
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By: skidracer66 10/7/2011 10:55 PM Yeah the front end does look too much like a 350/370. Love the rear end, how the tail lights wrap across. the front of the car looks low, excellent forward vision. like the side view how the front dives sharper than the 350. the rear looks beefy need to tone that downa few noticable inches. overall a good starting rendering. |
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By: unreal90 10/11/2011 2:00 PM Im actually going to disagree with almost everyone saying its like a 350/370. The headlights maybe...but look at a lambo...same basic design. The hood line reminds me of a Mazda rx8 with the humps over the fender area. The opening in the front was already on a supra...this is just enlarged. Its really hard for me to actually see a 350z or 370z tying into this. I think that as a concept this ostensibly fairly reasonable compared to others. And the lines look somewhat decent. |
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By: Sweetness2 10/12/2011 8:02 PM You guys and Girls that have a neutral or dislike for the Supra. Check out the Texas Flying Mile records and I think you will have a whole new preception of the Supra. I was the owner of a 1981 Supra. Although it was severely performance limited at that build level from the factory. In later years it was bumped to a serious perfomer as you will see. |
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