{"id":5819,"date":"2019-01-15T09:20:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T07:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themotorist.co.za\/?p=5819"},"modified":"2019-01-15T09:22:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T07:22:33","slug":"the-new-toyota-supra-has-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themotoristold.co.za\/wp\/2019\/01\/15\/the-new-toyota-supra-has-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"The new Toyota Supra has arrived."},"content":{"rendered":"

New Toyota Supra<\/h2>\n

Toyota unveiled the long-awaited new Toyota Supra today at the 2019 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan. Anyone that was around in the 80\u2019s and 90\u2019s will remember what an icon the Supra was, giving 911\u2019s and Ferrari\u2019s big frights the world over. And for those who weren\u2019t around then, they\u2019d have undoubtedly come across the mighty Supra in the Need For Speed, Midnight Club or Gran Turismo computer and console games. Paul Walker then cast in stone the cars legendary status in the first Fast and The Furious movie and while that particular example was rather distastefully modified, its something that no true motorhead would pass up the chance to own!<\/p>\n

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You can only imagine the hype, then, when Toyota announced that they were to revive the Supra name. Not only this, but it was rumored that they were going to partner up with one of the best names in the industry \u2013 BMW \u2013 a surefire recipe for a dynamically brilliant and involving sportscar\u2026<\/p>\n

17 years since the last Toyota Supra rolled off the production line, the all-new Gazoo Racing Supra is here. Silly name, yes, but it\u2019ll likely just be known as \u2018the Supra\u2019 so no need to worry there.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll hold off on all of the finer details until we have a proper go in one, but here are the hard facts that you need to know right now \u2013 the teasers if you will\u2026<\/p>\n

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Co-developed with BMW, it shares its architecture and many components with the all-new BMW Z4. This isn\u2019t a bad thing, as BMW has also admittedly repositioned the new Z4 as a more driver-oriented vehicle, so you can rest assured that the new Supra certainly has the good bits beneath its svelte and curvy lines.<\/p>\n

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The Powerplant<\/h3>\n

A great deal of attention has been paid to ensuring that the new Toyota Supra is balanced, so it\u2019s no surprise that it benefits from a 50\/50 weight split. Featuring the same turbocharged 3.0-litre in-line 6-cylinder motor as the Z4 M40i, the top spec RZ is capable of accelerating from 0-100 km\/h in 4.3 seconds with its 250 kW and 500 N.m. The rest of the range is pretty quick too with both the SZ-R and SZ models being powered by the same 2.0-litre in-line 4 motor boasting outputs of 190 kW\/400 N.m and 145 kW\/320 N.m and 0-100 km\/h times of 5.2 and 6.5 seconds respectively. For now, ZF\u2019s 8-speed automatic does duty in the Supra but who know\u2019s what the future may bring. At this stage, we don\u2019t have any word on South African specification either but the usual array of technology and safety systems that you can expect to find on the latest premium vehicles will likely be available, too.<\/p>\n

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Anybody with eyes will see that the interior is a mishmash of the BMW parts bin, new and old, and you know what? I\u2019m fine with that. If there\u2019s a parts bin that one should take advantage of, it\u2019s BMW\u2019s and I think that Toyota engineers and designers have done a nice job of differentiating the Supra\u2019s interior from that of the BMW Z4.<\/p>\n

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Quality will likely be top-notch as you can expect from a German\/Japanese partnership but the decider will be whether or not the Supra lives up to its name in terms of driver dynamics and sheer seat of your pants excitement \u2013 no pressure, then!<\/p>\n

New Toyota Supra in South Africa<\/h2>\n

Expect to see the Supra on South African roads mid-2019. It\u2019s not likely to be particularly cheap, so let\u2019s just hope that it has the driving fizz to match both the hype and its looks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Toyota Supra Toyota unveiled the long-awaited new Toyota Supra today at the 2019 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan. Anyone that was around in the 80\u2019s and 90\u2019s will remember what an icon the Supra was, giving 911\u2019s and Ferrari\u2019s big frights the world over. And for those who weren\u2019t around then,… Continue reading The new Toyota Supra has arrived.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themotoristold.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themotoristold.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themotoristold.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themotoristold.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themotoristold.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.themotoristold.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5827,"href":"https:\/\/www.themotoristold.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819\/revisions\/5827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themotoristold.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themotoristold.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themotoristold.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themotoristold.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}