It is hopeful news in these bitter times for car enthusiasts. They are SUVs and crossovers with which money is earned. The market for coupes is nil. Yet it is the increasingly strict emission standards that form the real final blow for the sports car segment. On the left and right, iconic models disappear. For example, the Nissan GT-R and Audi R8 can no longer be ordered. This legend is also approaching his end.
No help from BMW or Subaru
Sean Hanley, a CEO of the Australian Toyota branch, has against the website Drive Said that the brand is able to develop a new sports car. The current Toyota sports models have been produced in collaboration with other brands. This is how the iconic Supra shares (which is also on extinction) A lot of technology with the BMW Z4 and there is also a Subaru twin brother called BRZ.
There is a good reason for those collaborations. In this way the costs can be spread over many more models. Developing a new car costs claws with money. If only a handful of one brand flag are sold, such a model is hard to justify financially.
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Otherwise that is with the Extremely nice gr yaris and Gr Corolla. They were not built in collaboration with another brand, but are to a certain extent based on existing (and very successful) models, which keeps the costs in check.
Toyota comes with its own sports car
The fact that Toyota can develop its own sports car does not mean that the brand will do that too, we hear you think. Nevertheless, Hanley confirms that (under Toyota’s GR label) will certainly come. “You will have to wait a little longer,” said Hanley Drive.
How long we have to wait, what we can expect from the sports car and what name he will bear is not yet clear. It is also not certain whether it will be an electric car or whether an old -fashioned fuel engine will provide the drive.
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Both drive lines can be argued. For example, a few years ago the brand showed the Electric FT-SE. At the same time, Toyota is working on Very powerful new four -cylinders. However, the question is whether a sports car with such a combustion engine can still be brought to the market in Europe by that time.