SCHITZO FRENETIC
MORE THAN ANYTHING, this Toyota Supra is remarkable for the fact it exists. The imperative that it make money meant Toyota could not do the car by itself, but the joint venture with BMW that created it and the Z4 has been so fraught that Tetsuya Tada, Supra’s refreshingly honest chief engineer, told me “there were many times when I believed it simply would not happen”.
So you might fear some unsatisfactory compromise between Toyota’s craving for a balls-to-the-wall Porsche Cayman rival and BMW’s no less strong, but more commercially-motivated desire, to build a broadly defined sporting GT.
If so, you’re not alone; Toyota did too. Which is why once the hard points had been agreed – platform, powertrain, wheelbase and so on – the two
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