Watching Toyota “Yes Men” gush over what is essentially a competitors car in drag. Knowing that Toyota could have done it in-house but chose not to. The attitude sent back by Toyota belittling the actual Supra owners and actual would-be future Supra owners on their opinions about what the car should be.

I’m in Katy, TX, which has quickly turned into one of the more affluent suburbs in the Greater Houston area. On any given day, you can spot almost any car you want, driving around here. Everything from beaters to the newest exotic, and you typically see multiples of them, too. The only car I’ve not seen on the roads…

Yeeeesssss. 

Fun fact: the MkV has a 4in shorter wheelbase than the 86. (The rest of it is slightly bigger though).

COTD

It has two main problems.

Handles like Spaghetti but never breaks and is basically like driving a couch.  10/10.

You know full well none will sell for 60

Second gen ES is the best gen ES.

The photos of the new Z4 don’t really do it justice. I saw one at an ice cream place in St. Louis a few months ago and immediately stopped what I was doing to go over and see it. Since then I’ve seen maybe a dozen new Z4s around the city and two Supras.

I think the problem here is that you can’t actually market this thing to people who don’t know about cars. There’s no wool-pulling. It’s not like the Urus (I finally have an excuse to drive a Lambo!) or some heritage-laden tweedmobile (Careful with the Jag, darling).

Lots of car names became famous to normies for…

Japanese styling.  German reliability.  They got it backwards.

Shames me to agree, I was more exited about the 93 ES300 I recently bought than this.....

I’m a complete Toyota homer, and there’s almost nothing that excites me about this car.

I’m glad you’re the one who wrote this article. I’m satisfied by the explanations and possible causes.  I’m not sure this would be the case with any other writer - you took a very engineering-esque approach.  with care for accuracy.  

I think it’s most likely that MT simply got a favorable dyno measurement. Chassis dynos are notorious for being inconsistent and are best used as tools to measure power deltas. Not absolute values.

GM does not underrate hp numbers.

I assume the tone of the post is mostly because David is an engineer at heart so he will want to know the why of the discrepancy more than celebrating the extra horsepower. He may also be cognizant that if there is a large discrepancy to the plus side, and it’s caused by production variances, there might also be…

Just a side note: The auto playing video ads are really annoying. As someone who works in advertising and has had experience with rich media ads I can tell you they don’t work and its a great way to turn off users.