How BMW and Toyota Overcame a Culture Clash to Design the New Supra

Photo: ToyotaThe highly anticipated new Toyota Supra will share a platform with the upcoming BMW Z4 in a fascinating collaboration between two companies with very different cultures. AdvertisementAccording to the story, Tada says BMW approached Toyota during a European press event in 2012 for the Toyota GT86, and suggested that the two companies collaborate. AdvertisementThe story goes on, describing how it took time for BMW to understand Toyota's methods and its cars. Tada, for example, was amazed by the time, effort and especially the money BMW puts into research and development, saying:We've learned a lot from BMW. Our company (Toyota) with my tenure and experience, the focus was always design elements being the priority.

New Toyota Supra is as stiff as the Lexus LFA supercar

The upcoming fifth-generation Toyota Supra – unveiled as a prototype at the recent Goodwood Festival of Speed, and built in tandem with the new BMW Z4 – took seven years to build. One of which is body rigidity twice that of the GT86, and in fact equal to Lexus' rather astonishing V10 LFA supercar. That was the most difficult thing to achieve."The new Supra is wider than the GT86, but the wheelbase is in fact shorter. Tada-san also confirmed that this new fifth-generation Supra will take design cues from the fourth-generation A80 Supra. The new Supra, however – with its 3.0-litre turbo six, rear-wheel-drive, stiff body structure and design cues from the fourth-gen Supra – does.

Chief Engineer Tetsuya Tada Opens up About New Toyota Supra

as informed in The man behind the Toyota GT86 discusses his newest pride and joy, the fifth-generation Supra. Toyota UK recently sat down with Tetsuya Tada the chief engineer of the all-new A90 Toyota Supra. Tada is the main authority on the fifth generation of Toyota's most iconic sports car, as well as the man responsible for the Toyota GT86 and Subaru BRZ twins. Tada began working on the new Supra in 2012, which is when the GT86 came out. Tetsuya Tada and his baby at the 2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed - Toyota U.K. Tetsuya Tada and his baby at the 2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed Toyota U.K.To appease the most hardcore Supra fans, Tada says that, for now, the Supra will remain rear-wheel drive with an inline-six engine up front (although a four-cylinder variant is also confirmed).

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