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Originally Posted by Nextbooost
Nothing about this car is appealing to me, if i want a S58 ill just buy a bimmer with it. Thus the car is a total joke to me and pointless, for what it is and costs i might as well go buy the real thing from bavaria.
Bean counters should maybe look at the mustang and Vett and see you can create a great car and charge from 30ish to north of 100k for it and ill make financial sense.
Two decades to bring back a legend and this is how they do it ? WTF were they thinking. I'm at a loss. They totally misread the fanbase.
See they just should have build the Supra exactly as the Ft1 was and made a version from 45/50k all the way up to north of 100k. Built on a platform (IS/RC/LC new whatever) shared with lexus to cut costs, but no. They have one of the greatest brain farts ever in the automotive industry.
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Something I didn't know until I read an article about the Mk4 Supra is that the US sales were abysmal. Chevy sold more Vettes in a year than the entire run of the Mk4, even though the Supra was a much more advanced car. It's no surprise they discontinued the it and didn't bother to do a new version, with sales numbers that low.
Had it not been for "That Movie(s)" the Supra would have probably been relegated to the dust bin of history, save for the precious few who owned / raced one of them. Now, it seems, just like there are more people who have claimed to been at Woodstock than ever went, seems that there are way more Supra "purists" than ever actually owned one. People have their torches and pitchforks out without ever actually driven the thing ... heck we haven't really gotten full reviews of it yet. But some people have made up their minds on the principle of the thing.
Seems that they must have appealed to people outside of the armchair purists, from what I've seen reported the first year's allotment is almost sold out already.
I'm not saying there are things I personally would want to see different about this car before I'd want to buy one. I do rather like the B58 and appreciate a RWD car with 50/50 weight distribution. But I'd rather less fake vents, manual, back seat and a usable trunk - but hey there's a car for that - a M240i and I already have one!
Let's say they built the car that the armchair purists wanted - it would have cost a whole lot more and basically would have been in the same segment as their Lexus LC, of which they sold like 12? It would be yet another car that folks appreciated existed, but hardly anyone actually bought. I was shocked to see how few of the new NXSeses have actually sold, even though as a former Acura guy I appreciate that they "did it right".
At the end of the day, we've got a new RWD sports coupe out there, that seems like it will sell well. Hopefully it will encourage car makers to keep making cars like that ... and they might get rid of some of the fake vents and add a manual in subsequent years.
Oh here's the article I mentioned, found it interesting.
http://www.thedrive.com/news/25959/w...oyota-gr-supra