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Last year, America proved that fans were right when they said it's only a matter of time before the GR Supra runs out of steam – it sold just 2,652 examples across the US market.
The 'performance' barely allowed the 2023 Toyota GR Supra to float above its direct rival – Nissan's Z, which convinced merely 1,771 buyers to take it home. Well, the GR Supra wasn't selling all too well to begin with – it dropped from almost 5k deliveries in 2022. The causes for this lackluster pace are pretty easy to understand – Toyota isn't offering the GR Supra at a bargain, it's less powerful than most of its rivals, and people are not happy that it's made in Austria or that it's mostly a BMW (Z4) under the skin.
If you need the perspective, Ford sold 48,605 copies of the S550 and S650 Mustang, Dodge had 44,960 deliveries for its Challenger nameplate, and even Chevrolet rocked over 31k units. As such, are we surprised that models like the Toyota GR Supra 100 Edition, based on the Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO, do not precisely find an audience in the real world? This track toy cost Porsche 911 Turbo S money when it was released, and it was also only offered in three examples – probably because Toyota knew it couldn't sell more.
Anyway, oddly enough, this collector's item hasn't been forgotten across the imaginative realm of digital car content creators. Over there, Jim, the virtual artist known as jlord8 on social media, loves messing around with all things CGI from GM and Ford, but also from Toyota sometimes. He recently cooked up stuff like a Bentley-based Mercury Grand Marquis, an S-Class-inspired Marauder, or a Buick Roadmaster Sedan and also an Estate version.
That's just to give you a taste of his modern CGI work, as he also loves to fiddle with models from the 1980s and 1990s without bringing them to modern times. Well, on this occasion, the pixel master decided to make a quirky callback to one of the oddest Toyota Supras out there – the pop-up A70 third generation produced between early 1986 and the spring of 1993. As such, the GR Supra track toy, still dressed in Plasma Orange and fitted with a lot of aero goodies and carbon fiber elements, got treated to pop-up headlights and that odd light setup below them.
Curiously, while most people would discard this as a failed attempt, it seems that Mk3 Supra fans approve of the changes - although at least one of them would also like to see the original Supra GT4 EVO's 444 horsepower mill swapped with a "modern, bespoke Toyota 3JZ straight six." So, what do you think, yay or nay?
If you need the perspective, Ford sold 48,605 copies of the S550 and S650 Mustang, Dodge had 44,960 deliveries for its Challenger nameplate, and even Chevrolet rocked over 31k units. As such, are we surprised that models like the Toyota GR Supra 100 Edition, based on the Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO, do not precisely find an audience in the real world? This track toy cost Porsche 911 Turbo S money when it was released, and it was also only offered in three examples – probably because Toyota knew it couldn't sell more.
Anyway, oddly enough, this collector's item hasn't been forgotten across the imaginative realm of digital car content creators. Over there, Jim, the virtual artist known as jlord8 on social media, loves messing around with all things CGI from GM and Ford, but also from Toyota sometimes. He recently cooked up stuff like a Bentley-based Mercury Grand Marquis, an S-Class-inspired Marauder, or a Buick Roadmaster Sedan and also an Estate version.
That's just to give you a taste of his modern CGI work, as he also loves to fiddle with models from the 1980s and 1990s without bringing them to modern times. Well, on this occasion, the pixel master decided to make a quirky callback to one of the oddest Toyota Supras out there – the pop-up A70 third generation produced between early 1986 and the spring of 1993. As such, the GR Supra track toy, still dressed in Plasma Orange and fitted with a lot of aero goodies and carbon fiber elements, got treated to pop-up headlights and that odd light setup below them.
Curiously, while most people would discard this as a failed attempt, it seems that Mk3 Supra fans approve of the changes - although at least one of them would also like to see the original Supra GT4 EVO's 444 horsepower mill swapped with a "modern, bespoke Toyota 3JZ straight six." So, what do you think, yay or nay?
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