These days if you were in a clean MKIV you could say to people “More than you can afford, pal. Supra” 

I don’t like it, but I am glad they didn’t go full tilt boogie with it. We don’t need another LFA, NSX or GTR that only a select few can buy, that you’ll hardly ever see on the road. This is well within budget for millions of people. They could have resurrected the Supra nameplate and built another $100-200k halo car,…

The ultimate goal here is to make it 1950 again, so “reasoning” doesn’t really come into it. Just like when you tell people that if American manufacturing suddenly returned, it’d largely be automated and you’d have like three people running the spatula factory instead of the entire town.

He’s clearly a smart dude but I don’t agree with some of his reasoning.

Eternal wisdom from the ilk that actually encourages David Tracy’s rusty escapades.

From a manufacturing and cost standpoint, I get it. And from a performance standpoint (reliability is another story) modern BMW inline-sixes are fantastic and readily available, so I get that, too.

“In the spirit of the Supra, I wish Toyota had the guts to make a PROPER sports car. ~300hp, manual, $25k. Take out all the unnecessary nannies and save a few hundred lbs.”

I would assume it’s got a lot to do with the seating position. A typical sports car, has a very low seating position, while the 2 Series has a more upright seat height/position. Nothing like a crossover, but more than a sports car. The lowness of the sports car would increase the necessary leg room to make it…

Tada doesn’t strike me as the type of guy that makes a lot of mistakes. If he found it necessary to compromise, I feel like we can trust his reasoning. If the 86 and Supra had to have parts from other manufacturers to make it to market at (relatively) reasonable price points, I say, so be it.

even if this thing weighed 2,500 pounds, had 500 horsepower, a manual gearbox, featured the second coming of the 2JZ engine and cost $30,000, people would still find reasons to complain

I’ve seen it at the auto shows. I think it actually looks pretty badass in person.

If the Bluetooth pairing works then hell yes it will 

Please just keep in mind that the last Supra.. in stock form, wasn’t that great of a car. That’s this cars real benchmark.. not the legend the tuned versions have created.

I would love a Yaris GRMN. A 500 Abarth might work but I’m not sure either would be allowed to autocross, something I’d like to get into.

Ha! FiST/FoST! I never heard that. Glad to have learned a thing today.

true, It’s pretty cocky on Ford’s part that die hard hot hatch users would jump on a bloated Fords as a substitute. They will migrate to those other brands you mentioned. Ford transformed back to it’s good old self that got them in trouble in the first place. Detroit is getting arrogant again. 

“What about drivers of the Ford Fiesta, Ford Focus, Ford Fusion? They’ll switch to other Ford products, LaNeve predicted.”

The only other Ford I may get into after my Fiesta ST, is the new Bronco, or a Ranger Raptor (if that happens). I do enjoy my hot hatches though and hope the future is bright for them. I will be…

The first sentence of the second paragraph starts with a notification about how the global market for cars is soft - a worrying leading indicator of a likely recession - and then we are left to ponder Ford’s strategy of relying on vehicles which are by nature more costly, both to purchase (if admittedly more…

This kind of crap is why they used to run Spec Racer Ford at the *end* of the day. A bunch of rookie hotheads who think they’re in Days of Thunder driving like shit and ignoring the rules and common sense.