Toyota Has Developed A Manual Transmission For The Supra
We thought the whole ‘will they, won’t they’ question of a manual A90 Supra had been answered. After countless rumours pointing us one way or the other, it was seeming like a stick-shift version of Toyota’s new sports car just wasn’t going to happen.
Toyota itself seemed to be suggesting it was a ‘no’, and the conspicuous lack of a manual for the new BMW Z4 range seemed to all but confirm that the jointly-developed Supra would go the same way. But as we discovered last week, BMW and Toyota’s engineers effectively split years ago, leaving the Japanese company to do its own thing. Like make a manual for the Supra, which it has done.
Speaking to Australian publication Car Advice, assistant chief engineer Masayuki Kai confirmed the good news. “We have developed it, yes, there is hardware ready. Right-hand drive? Yes, of course. It needs to be sold in Japan, which is a right-hand drive market,” he said.
It’s hard not to get excited when hearing this, but before you get ahead of yourselves, we aren’t necessarily going to see it in production form. “This [a production manual Supra] is not yet finally decided, and depending on feedback from the market, we will decide if we should introduce a manual transmission,” Kai-san explained.
The Supra - shown here in lightly disguised prototype form - is expected to make its debut at the Detroit Motor Show next January.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Dorifto intensifies
But you can drift a dual clutch aswell…
It’s weird being on a post no one else is.
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Sike
Omagurrddd!!! A manual Supra I’ll never drive.
Depreciation will take it’s toll
This is gettong better every day
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaasss
Knew this since yesterday
7 hours ago
not yesterday.
All the super fans are satisfied for now, then they will probably keep complaining anyway about it even though no one has driven it.
Everyone that will not get one will complain.
Now the people who will buy it on day one or at least one day will love it or send feedback directly at the manufacturer.
Right? like it could be a great car with an amazing driving experience and people would still diss it for being a “BMW”.
Or none of them can afford it. Like how it goes, “it must be this, this and that” but never actually buys the car they’re bickering about.
It is the proper choice to make this happen on the Supra. Having an auto only option was and is a slap in the face.
Maybe in the 90s, but now? Meh.
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money?
cost?
it really just depends on pricing.
if the manual is a at a 3-4k price less than the DCT, then i can DEFINITLY see a market for it.
if its the same price though? uh nope.
Same. I’d honestly never buy a non PDK Cayman.