The guys at Cobb commented in the thread on reddit about this, I think in r/cars.  If you want some more details.

You can buy a V8 Supra right now:

Was that prototype sitting on the production chassis?

The engine is going into a custom tube-frame chassis with Supra bodywork on top. That V8 may not even fit in the Z4/Supra production chassis.

Maybe they should pay Musk a some more billions.

Tesla is the worst of both worlds.

These are terrible cars. The early haldex systems are trash and feel like they take a week to react to wheelspin. Plus there’s all the reliability issues with the differential and the engine really doesn’t like low RPM boost.

1st Gear

It basically covers the added warranty costs.

For test and tunes, it depends on the track operators.

boasting a zero to 60 time of 1.66 seconds

I’m glad someone here gets it. This article is basically The Problem With Car Culture. Why bother going to a car show if you’re annoyed by seeing cars you don’t like? I like seeing purple hot rods, classic Mustangs, restomod, corvettes, beaters, etc. If something doesn’t spark my interest, then I move on.

Wasn’t the Supra always a GT car though?

Then those folks complain about how there aren’t any cheap cars anymore.

The complaints I’ve heard have mostly been from the v6 owners that it was heavy and ate brakes/rotors like they were a mid-morning snack

I think the biggest issue was that the top trim only had like 210hp and lacked the tuneability of the previous generations. Yeah, the 4g63 motors also had around that power output, but basic bolt ons had them in the upper 200s, making them faster than the top spec contemporary Camaros and Mustangs in both acceleration…

. Toyota has PLENTY of money so they could have made the thing purely in-house. Would it have cost more for them and then cost us more? Absolutely.

Toyota: Here’s a legendary motor shoved into the lightest chassis it has (and will) ever come in, and we’ll throw in a free NASA membership and a 6MT for those that want it. Best part? It’s also going to be the cheapest way to get said motor!

This dude probably did get a lot of ass beatings as a child. That’s what turned him into a man who uses violence to get his way.

I always loved the LFA. The styling was very reminiscent of the A80 Supra (especially in white). Once the FR-S came out, you could see how the LFA was half A80, half FR-S (especially in green), I always felt like it tied those two cars together. I’ll be eternally grateful that nobody decided to slap that hideous…