Although there is no chance to test drive, Supra is a highly talked-about car this year, and its story is quite interesting. My first impression of Supra comes from The Fast and the Furious's first film, the orange body driven by Paul Walker and the fourth generation Supra with green flowers. Although the car looks a little out of touch with the present, which part in the movie is different from Ferrari 355? The spider's road racing scene made me feel the meaning of the word dress up as a pig and eat a tiger for the first time.
The history of Toyota Supra can be traced back to 1969. At the Tokyo Motor Show that year, Toyota released the EX- 1 concept car, announcing their ambition to enter the performance car market. 1979, the first generation of Supra was officially born, which was also in Celica mode. There is another episode about the origin of the name Supra. Initially, Toyota gave it the same name as the Mexican beer brand. In order to avoid embarrassment, Toyota North America changed its car name to Supra.
At that time, Supra was just a civilian sports car, and the maximum power of its straight six engine was only 1 10Ps, bullying Wuling Hong Guang. Fortunately, it has gained some markets at a price close to the people. In order to get better social response and more attention, Supra also served as a safety car in American racing competitions.
1982, Toyota can't wait to launch the second generation Supra. This time, great progress has been made in the appearance design of the model, and the body lines are softer. The addition of jumping lights finally made it feel like a Japanese sports car. After upgrading the EFI system with Bosch, the maximum power of the engine reached 170Ps, but compared with the competitors at that time, it was still a younger brother. But it was also in this year that Supra began to enter the European market and became a fashion darling, which was very popular. The price in France was even comparable to that of Porsche 924.
In this way, it took four years. 1986, the third generation of Supra was born, and three major events happened in the third generation of Supra. The first one is that Supra officially left Celica and became an independent car system, which means that it can finally make its own decisions. The second is to launch a convertible model. At this time, Supra's 3.0L engine has a maximum power of 200Ps and a maximum torque of 265N·m, but due to the increase of vehicle weight, the power of the whole vehicle is still not surprising. However, only one year later, the third big event came. Toyota installed a turbine for it, which increased the horsepower by 30Ps and completed 0- 100km/h acceleration in 7 seconds.
199 1 year, the third generation Supra is equipped with a 2.5T inline six-cylinder turbocharged engine, namely 1JZ-GTE. The displacement did decrease, but the original horsepower reached 276Ps, exceeding most competitors at that time. It was from this time that Supra finally ushered in its golden age.
The fourth generation Supra was officially listed on 1993, which is the aforementioned car in The Fast and the Furious. Compared with the previous generation, it successfully lost 90kg, and replaced it with the famous 2JZ-GTE twin-turbo engine. The maximum power of the original factory is 276Ps, and it can reach 400Ps or even 500Ps with simple modification. And the price was the direct benchmark of the American national treasure sports car Corvette at that time, becoming the dream of Japanese powder? Cars.
And its top is equipped with a turbo version. The original factory has a maximum power of 320Ps and a maximum torque of 427n·m, and it is equipped with a 6-speed manual transmission. The acceleration of 0- 100km/h takes only 4.6 seconds, which is better than that of modern Porsche 9 1 1? Carrera. At this time, it has a new nickname "Niu Wangmo".
However, glory is always short-lived. Soon after, in 2002, Toyota, which was troubled by various external factors, decided to stop production of Supra. After 24 years of wind and rain, * * * launched the legendary end of four generations of models.
Time flies, 17 years passed, and in 20 19 years, north american auto show, Toyota's fifth generation Supra was officially unveiled. But in order to save the cost of manufacturing R&D, Toyota chose to cooperate with BMW and share the same platform with Z4***. This also makes a lot of "cow powder" a bit unacceptable, feeling that Niu Wangmo was reincarnated and mistakenly voted for the horse circle.
The fifth generation Supra, like the new BMW Z4, adopts 2.0T and 3.0T powertrains, and the officially announced 0- 100km acceleration time is 6.5s and 4.3s respectively. Front-mounted and rear-driven, the design of two doors and two seats ensures its driving pleasure, and the wheelbase is only 2470mm, which is shorter than that of Toyota 86, which means it has better handling.
But then again, I personally think that Toyota is not very authentic this time. According to informed sources, all the 300 Supra units currently launched have arrived at the dealers. Because there is no clear official pricing, the price is decided by the dealer, and Toyota is indifferent to it. According to reliable sources, the 3.0T version of Supra will reach nearly 800,000. Although feelings are priceless, it is not easy to make money. Still have to be rational. There is no need to fall into the trap of black-hearted merchants for feelings.
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