I need to know who put the damned car together.
looks like japs will put the car together with parts from bmw.
Japan Meets Germany
This Supra been a long time coming. Normally, it takes about three years to develop a car, but the Supra has been in the oven for seven, said Tetsuya Tada, chief engineer of the A90 project, in an interview posted to Toyota's U.K. website on July 19.
Back in 2012, Toyota and BMW began a joint project to develop a common platform that is now shared between the 2019 Supra and 2019 BMW Z4. Sticking with tradition, the '19 Supra will pack an inline six-cylinder engine under the front hood and run that power through the rear wheels. But because Toyota lacks an I6 of its own, the Japanese car will use Bavarian motivation.
The top engine is a 3.0-liter turbocharged straight six shared with the Z4. Neither company identifies the exact engine publicly, but most onlookers assume it to be the B58 already offered across BMW's lineup in cars from the 2 Series to the 7 Series. There's also a rumored BMW 2.0-liter turbo I4 as a cheaper, base-level option.
According to Road & Track, citing a leaked document from German transmission supplier ZF, an eight-speed ZF automatic will do the work behind both engines.
There's no official word mentioning a manual transmission for the Toyota, but the Z4 won't offer one. So if Toyota wants to please the stick-shift people, it'll have to source one itself.
R&T reports Masayuki Kai, an assistant chief engineer on the A90, as saying that whether Toyota offers a manual hinges on whether enough consumers demand one. Call us jaded, but “we'll see” tends to mean “no.”
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