Automatic emergency braking and active lane control are standard, while blind-spot monitors, rear cross-traffic alerts, parking sensors, and adaptive cruise control are optional. Buyers can turn off the stability control, but we recommend against it as the short wheelbase and prodigious power can make the rear end squirrelly.
The Toyota Supra comes in a small lineup of turbo-4 and turbo-6 models with just a few options. However, the performance value earns it a 6 out of 10 for features. Toyota offers the Supra in 2. It also has matte black inch wheels, red brake calipers, and a red and black interior. More like BMW infotainment. The Supra gets a version of the BMW iDrive system with a center touchscreen and rotary dial on the center console.
The Apple CarPlay interface is shrunk down too much on the screen unless you get the high-end audio system. The touch inputs are easier to use than the dial. Research By Category Body Style. Start a Loan Request Form Today! New Cars. By Make. Tacoma Tundra Venza. New By Year.
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Buying tip The Supra 2. It's a good reason not to be too upset that the transmission occasionally rejects ambitious downshift requests. And the engine cheerfully buries the tach needle into the yellow zone, making usable power until nearly rpm.
Upshifts occur on command with no power interruption to the wheels, slurring together with a familiar BMW-like burble from the exhaust. Drivers who have experience in Bavarian sports cars will also recognize the snarl from the Supra's tailpipes on overrun. The steering slathers the rest of the experience in glory: accurate, well weighted, and quick enough to keep up with the directional schizophrenia that is a Supra on a tight racetrack.
It pairs mightily with a brake pedal that refused to quit despite our best efforts to abuse the stoppers into submission. The Supra's most obvious competitors, the Porsche Cayman S and the BMW M2 Competition, are among the best sports cars in the world, and it'll need such superlative controls to challenge them.
Perhaps the biggest accomplishment isn't the dynamic potency of the Supra itself, but rather that the vehicle comes from Toyota and—in undeniable ways—from BMW, two companies known for their reluctance to play liability roulette. With its stability control disabled, the Supra will rotate under braking and aim readily through a corner. Powerslides are as easy as falling in love, the staggered-width Michelin Pilot Super Sport tires breaking away as predictably as they return.
And if you're one of those who delights in left-foot braking, you're in luck. If a driver possesses these tools, he should feel at liberty to use them. Toyota, mercifully, didn't go berserk with the Supra's drive modes. There are two—Normal and Sport. Selecting Sport toggles the throttle, transmission, steering, exhaust, dampers, and limited-slip differential into settings better suited for aggressive driving, and it can be customized to a driver's preference.
Traction mode, an intermediate stability-control setting, loosens the reins but doesn't punish a driver who pushes its very reasonable limits. And then there's launch control, which we tried several times to activate yet only did so once. Inside, Germany persists. All of the Supra's secondary controls, from its shifter to its infotainment system, are familiar BMW fare.
Also, there are only two seats—a Supra first—and a modest cargo hold. Full leather upholstery starts with the 3. The base Supra 3.
As we've established in our previous post, this isn't a Supra that's been chopped or even a Z4 with a body swap. Instead, the project started out with an older Lexus, the SC This was once deemed by Top Gear as one of the worst handling sports cars, but as fans have rediscovered it, Lexus even built a modern successor. We mention this because the rear recking of the Supra Spider looks a lot like that of the new Lexus LC Convertible. Some parts come from the actual Supra, like the bumpers and doors.
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