There is certainly a cult of personality around it for sure, but a lot of the misconception can't be helped when even actual automotive sites tote the "The FIA specifically banned the rotary engine after Mazda won" crap. Jalopnik is a dumpster fire of a site nowadays, but even considering that they still wrote an article that pushed that just a few months ago.
While I think both look fantastic, I personally prefer the facelifted Lamborghini Diablo over the first iteration.
I actually agree fullheartedly with the first three, and about the fourth, it's certainly not a bad car. It's just ugly as hell after an attempt to cram the FT-1 design language onto a chassis that is much shorter, taller, and all around just chubby compared to the original. In my opinion the LC500 should have been the base for the Mk V and what we got... should have remained as the BMW M2 that does the short and tall looks very much better.
2 seater.
It really doesn't since it's a completely different type of car from all of the previous Supras, but regardless of that, it's a BMW. People wanted a Toyota. For all of the NSX's problems, at least it was developed by Honda (with all the things that entails with modern Honda vs late 80s Honda). For that matter , giving the Zupra a pass for the same kind of crap that the NSX has gotten since launch is very odd.The current Supra has so little Toyota involvement that the official model code uses a BMW model number. Whenever it's recalled, you've had to take it to BMW dealers.
I think looking at the fact that Nissan's new Z won't come to Europe for emissions reasons, it becomes pretty plainly obvious why the A90 Supra has a European engine...
When it's subtle, the pops and bangs are quite nice, I think. But I've noticed a trend in pops and bangs so loud it sounds like gunshots. Happens from time to time in my area and it actually scares me while I trying to work it's so loud. I can't imagine it is legal, but considering the increase in street racing in my area, I think cops gave up during the pandemic trying to pull people over.
And that makes all the difference? I don't understand because if Toyota did develop it, the result would probably be the same. Badge engineering or not, I think it's a proper successor. The fact that it's a BMW with different body panels doesn't upset me because the car has enough similarities with the old one.
Because Toyota, the most powerful company in the automotive space, wasn't able to make one?
And in a couple years when sites like Jalopnik are writing glorified eulogy articles about how much people didn't like the car enough and were unfair to it, people are still going to mock Toyota for deciding they wanted to make a Supra but not actually have anything to do with making it. It will be no different from the situation is and has always been with the current NSX.
It's hard to line this up with your earlier assertion that the NSX comparatively strayed too far from whatever it needed to be.
Because Toyota, the most powerful company in the automotive space, clearly came to the conclusion that it wasn't the best way forward. I'm hazarding a guess when I say that decision was the crux of the car coming to Europe, sure - but it is the decision they made and must have some reasoning behind it. To suggest they simply don't have the capability to make a sporty I6 that can pass EURO emissions regulations is somewhat infantile - clearly, on considering it, they came to the conclusion the BMW powerplant was the way to go.
Yeah, the Veilside NSX looks like a bad kitcar or bad facelift to me.
