I think they're trying to imply that if this is indeed a mazda toyota collab, the Mazda will get that hybrid 3 rotor that Mazda just patented and the Toyota would get the inline 6 that Mazda has been working on.
Toyota and Mazda has actually been working on the inline 6 together since 2019
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Hmm. That theory doesn’t seem right. I get that the current Super GT Supra GT300 cars are built by Saitama Toyopet and outside of Japan, there may be no need to make a Supra GT3. I’m probably a little skeptical of Lexus using a joint Toyota-Mazda car as a Lexus. Especially, mentioning that new son of LFA. Figured they’d be on their own to do such a car.
Lexus does a lot of branding in IMSA and has a pretty well-established following in the US for it now. Makes sense to me from a US market perspective. Also Toyota is keen on platform sharing these days, all the car companies are, as they have to focus so many resources on developing EV tech. Now that Mazda is going RWD I think it makes more sense to share development with a domestic company than with BMW.Lexus plotting GT3 return with new sports car
The GR GT3 Concept has seemingly been spied with a Lexus badge Toyota stunned the sports car world when it
Hmm. That theory doesn’t seem right. I get that the current Super GT Supra GT300 cars are built by Saitama Toyopet and outside of Japan, there may be no need to make a Supra GT3. I’m probably a little skeptical of Lexus using a joint Toyota-Mazda car as a Lexus. Especially, mentioning that new son of LFA. Figured they’d be on their own to do such a car.
Well, if the theory is about the GR GT3 being a Lexus after all, so be it. With it not being in the Supra(NASCAR, Super GT 500/300, GT4) race car family.
Yes. It was never posted in the thread, but there were patent renders of what could be a road car last year
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Surely they will run cars in IMSA too.Further confirmation of the existence of the road version of the GT3 car with a likely reveal in 2026
Toyota's next-generation GT3 racer set for 2026 WEC debut
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This looks to be significantly more exotic than the RC-F. I'm guessing more like LF-A successor.
It was the name Lexus trademarked a year or so ago for the car.
It looks more exotic than both the RC and the Supra. I think it’ll be both eventually. I also think platform sharing with Lexus and Toyota could get Mazda back into the sports car game.
I wonder if that's because the Supra is a BMW and therefore more difficult to support. I don't think whatever this new car is will be a Supra because I think the Supra does well enough at it's current price and making it way more expensive (which I'm certain this will be with those proportions) will mean Toyota is giving up a sizeable market. Before the Supra there was the 2000GT, which was more of a halo product than the Supra ever was(it was a fair amount more expensive than a Jaguar E type or Porsche 911 of the time). Take the displacement modifier of that name and replace it with something more in line with Toyota's current marketing and you get GR GT - a halo car.
But it would make a little more sense if the Supra became a higher-end product to compete properly with the GT-R and 911. The 1995 Supra was selling for about $50,000 back then which is over $100,000 today so yes it was very exclusive and very halo. If Toyota ends the partnership with BMW for the next sports car then they'll be on their own to develop the platform and spread costs between Toyota and Lexus (and hope-to-god Mazda), necessitating a more expensive but lower production model. This would also free up space for an affordable MR2 hybrid sports car below it.
I don't see a business case for Toyota to sell the Supra at a more premium position than it is now - it seems to be working well enough where it is. It didn't work with the MKIV as they only sold a little over 10,000 of them (all models) in the USA. The MKV has already doubled that and its a viable competitor to the Porsche Cayman which really has no other competitors in the US Market.
Over the course of 15 years Nissan has averaged about 1,000 GT-R sales per year but I think the car is considered a success. I don't see why the Supra couldn't be moved up to a glamorous spot like that while the MR2 they've been teasing becomes that Cayman/400Z/Mustang/BMW competitor, literally in the form of another mid-engined car. In fact, Nissan's future GT-R plans are murky so Toyota could be able to capitalize on a giant-killing Supra supercar. While the MKV is a great car I think the popular consensus is still that it's not a real Supra.
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