The mk1 supra is DEFINITELY not shooting up in value here in southern california, they keep popping up for <$4000, usually closer to $2000, and their sleek looks keep tempting me.

I disagree, I think the Mako Shark looks more like a cross between the C2 and the Banshee, whereas the C3 loses nearly every styling cue leftover from the C2 except the vents behind the front wheels. The Banshee is missing every styling cue from the C2 that the Mako Shark still has.

Excellent. They’re creating a void of split grilles. A void to be filled by... THE SURPRISE COMEBACK OF PONTIAC?! THERE CAN BE NO OTHER RESULT

One I can’t move past no matter how hard I try: you can’t give a car a name without a story to back it up.

I bought a car identical (except in color) to my first car, a 98 firebird. The original died due to fouled fuel injectors, and the new one had pretty much every rubber gasket fail at once from being left to sit with dex-cool in it, but that’s beside the point.

That chevrolet straight-up cannibalized the 1964 Pontiac Banshee concept for the 65 Corvette Mako Shark concept, and the eventual c3 Corvette.

64 banshee:

The same was true of basically every sporty Pontiac concept, including the original Firebird. GM stifled Pontiac’s creativity every chance it got for fear of displacing the Corvette.

So many genuine news articles read like a National Enquirer cover now, and it’s a weird time to be alive.

You overlook its biggest crime: replacing the Cressida in North America. The straight-six RWD luxury sedan with supra bits, and you could get it as a wagon! The stark contrast there makes me sad.

When I had just turned 18 and was fast-tracking my permit and license acquirement, my dad was casually looking for cars on craigslist for me. He found a car in full pikachu livery and asked me if I was interested, and I hesitated. Those yellow beetles aren’t really for me, after all. I wasn’t even really into cars at…

She uses the lasso of truth on herself?

I’m pretty sure EVERY automaker feels pressure to “save it’s own ass” from emissions standards in the near future, as automakers have been pushing for rollbacks of emissions standards for years. I wasn’t saying GM was the only one, I was just addressing them because this article is about them in particular.

So, if higher compression results in better fuel economy, would the cost of premium actually be offset by the potential savings of these high-compression engines, or is this just GM wanting to save its own ass from emissions standards in the near future?

This guy knows where it’s at!

it knows what it is.

For those unaware, this is the guy who designed it:

I believe A50 was used by certain flavors of Celica, as some sort of facelift that the A40 Celica got but the A40 Supra didn’t.

The ‘90’ is significant because the production code names for the supra generations thus far have been A40, A60, A70, and A80. So, a mk V supra would almost certainly have the code A90.