How Deep Did Toyota Dig Into BMW's Part Bins For The New Supra?

The new Toyota Supra was sort of half-revealed at the 2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed. While we didn’t get a clear, camo-free look at the car, keen eyes on the ground did make some interesting observations about parts that the Supra appears to share with BMW.

My friend Jake Stumph, who writes for a whole bunch of car sites, dropped me a note last week that the Supra seemed to share brakes, tire sizes, a heads-up display, and surprisingly to me, a windshield, with the BMW M4.
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MDarringer - 7/20/2018 10:18:06 AM

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Toyota wrote a check to BMW to create a Supra and to build it. They clearly wanted no other involvement. Kind of like how they inexplicably wrote a check to Subaru for the awful GT686. This is just a Z4 coupe with a Toyota badge and as such it totally rapes the legacy of the Supra just as the GT86 raped the legacy of the Levin. I predict that the like the GT86 that is a deeply compromised failure, so will the Supra be.

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 7/20/2018 9:07:45 PM

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@MD I am still amazed Toyota made this choice with the Supra model. Just like Mustang or Corvette, this new replacement model should have been treated with a lot more respect.

malba2367 - 7/20/2018 11:38:49 AM

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The Supra is a badge engineering job that would make GM proud...

MDarringer - 7/20/2018 11:52:18 AM

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preach it, brother

Thomas007 - 7/20/2018 1:40:38 PM

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What I don't understand is this. Toyota Corp. is one of the most successful and profitable auto companies on earth. Why would they need to share this project with BMW? I believe Toyota is way bigger than BMW, so it makes sense for BMW to want this shared platform. Toyota could have used the rear wheel chassis from the Lexis IS Coupe, modified it, and fashioned a Supra.

MDarringer - 7/20/2018 1:56:14 PM

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Bingo. If this were a co-developed new RWD platform for use under Lexus and BMW products, that would be one thing, but a badge-engineered Subaru and a badge engineered BMW make no sense.

zlives - 7/20/2018 2:57:50 PM

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risk taking is not rewarded, just look at where LFA led.

mpls - 7/20/2018 5:13:56 PM

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All 500 LFAs sold out,, whats your point... ?
The LC isn't that bad. beter than most stuff coming out of BMW, Merc etc.

MDarringer - 7/20/2018 6:01:08 PM

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All 500 LFA did not sell out.

The ones that did took FOREVER to move.