Also, as long as we're being whiny little babies about it
My '18 2.3L 4-cylinder turbo Ecoboost Mustang puts out 310 horsepower with 320 to 350 lb-ft of torque. The 2020 Supra has a 3.0L inline-6 turbocharged that puts out 335 horsepower with 365 lb-ft of torque. You can find a base Mustang for $20k; the Supra starts at $30,000
more, with a base price of almost $50k. So from a numbers standpoint, $30k extra for 25 more horsepower, which I could probably get with a decent tune on mine. The new Supra goes 0 to 60 in 4.1 seconds & the Ecoboost Mustang does it in 5.3 seconds. Also note that the 2018 V8 Mustang starts at $36k base (still $14k less than a base Supra) & goes 0 to 60 in 3.9 seconds, a full 0.2 seconds faster than the Supra &
under the 4-second mark. Yes, the 2020 Supra is going to be more powerful than the one they made 22 years ago. But there are also multiple 4-second cars for $10k less, so unless you're into nostalgia or just really like the new design, it's kind of a little bit
meh.
And yes, I realize they're not the same cars (but they both are sports cars!) & yada yada yada, but with no stick-shift option & with an engine only a
little better on paper than my four-cylinder, it's just kind of disappointing is all. They've had twenty years to do amazing things & they pretty much just stuck a body kit on top of a BMW & then outsourced it to be built by Magna Steyr in Australia. Not to
mention reputation...BMW's are known to be costly to maintain & repair, whereas Toyotas are built to last, so there's now a question mark about how reliable your $50k "Toyota" is going to be, long-term, and how expensive the long-term fixes & maintenance will be. I mean, there's one dude who claims to have half a million miles on his original 3L 2JZ:
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/buying-maintenance/news/a29304/toyota-supra-520000-miles/
Personally, I like the design, but I would have liked to have seen a 6-speed manual transmission option right out of the gate, with more power, and for it to have been "built by Toyota". Plus, I mean, if you're going to go with a partnership with another company, why not put something crazy in there like a
500-horsepower Ecoboost engine to make it more novel & unique? They did that with the Focus RS (350 HP + AWD) & it became a top seller for Ford, and would have made the Supra stand out even more. Or maybe release a 400 horsepower version & allow room for it to be heavily modded to 500. Or something. As it is, the 2020 is just kind of a cool-looking but slightly-underwhelming new car, capitalizing on historic, pop-culture & scene nostalgia, without really bringing anything super-interesting to the table.
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