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Toyota Supra

Son of Supra will be a hybrid!

This silver machine is Toyota's all-new performance flagship, a hybrid-powered rival to coupés such as Nissan's new GT-R

By Peter Lyon 02nd November 2006

With rear-wheel drive and a seven-speed sequential auto, the supercar should cover the 0-60mph sprint in less than five seconds and hit a top speed in excess of 170mph

The Supra is back! Believe it or not this silver machine is Toyota's all-new performance flagship, a hybrid-powered rival to coupes such as Nissan's new GT-R.

Replacing the firm's famous sports car - which disappeared from Toyota's line-up in 1996 - the new model will go on sale in 2008, and takes styling inspiration from luxury brand Lexus' forthcoming LF-A.

But while that car will use a 500bhp 4.8-litre V10 when it arrives in 2009, Toyota's new model gets a tweaked version of the Lexus GS450h's 341bhp 3.5-litre V6 hybrid powertrain, giving it a unique combination of performance and economy.

With rear-wheel drive and a seven-speed sequential auto, the supercar should cover the 0-60mph sprint in less than five seconds and hit a top speed in excess of 170mph, yet return 30mpg. The mach-ine has already been seen testing at the Nürburgring circuit in Germany.

A concept is scheduled to appear at the Detroit Motor Show in January, while the production version is expected to be priced to match Nissan's new GT-R.

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I wonder if it will drive and perfom as well as their last? The Toyota engineers did a crackin job of the last one - will they give this one soul and rock and roll too? Great to see Supra still alive and kickin in Toyotas thinking - come on boys create a challenger for Nissan:d Pics of the new Skyline..due to land shortly

...do we like the Skyline better than the new Supra??

Got to say I prefer the skyline from them pics, early days yet though.

It looks like a cross between the celica and 300z. A bit clunky for me but it will probably grow on me in time. There are some more pics here

I prefer the mkiv supra to those pics as well , just as well really, there prob an arm and a leg when new

The new syline pictured looks wrong. Pic 4 of the new supe looks alright.

In all honesty, its looks have down graded from the mkiv.

That's nice.

At least you're paying attention!

I have read lots of "son of supra" articles, and still don't know what to believe.

also with hybrid the thing will be full of batteries - isn't it going to weigh 2 tons!?

Lots more info yet to come if it ever gets off the ground, tie will tell.

The looks will probably grow over time- the first MKIV looked very odd back in the early 90's.

The front of that GTR just looks wrong - like they have mated the front of one car with a smoothed over version of the old gtr back.

Batteries do not weight that much like they used to. New technologies, new electric cells are really lighweight and have nice performance I do not like sharp edges, curves should be way to go, handwritten pics from hogmaw post are nice (those on a bottom of article).

Batteries do not weight that much like they used to. New technologies, new electric cells are really lighweight and have nice performance

but surely there would be motors gearing clutches and generators etc... I wonder how much those 4x4 lexus hybrids weigh?

sadly, i prefer the skyling from those pics... and from what I have read, I prefer the engine that will be in the skyline...

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