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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Manual Supra + 27jz swap.
*2jz
*26 generations of jz get offered as an option
Toyota, you liar, you said there would be no manual.
Y tho? The GS6-53BZ would suffice.
Why make a new design?
I don’t get why a ton of you think having a manual transmission is only for the track. As long as you don’t live in the city or a highly urban area driving stick isn’t a pain at all, it’s actually very fun. I daily drive my car and it’s a 5 speed, I wouldn’t trade it for an automatic car any day.
Quick! Combine the need for manual with toyotas in more games!…. Or just the more games part.
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I don’t know why I get so excited over these things when I will never get to drive a supra, or many other cars I want to drive, of course this is still AWESOME.
This car is a sports car, not a GT. It doesn’t need a automatic transmission at all, it should’ve launched with a manual only.