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The Japanese automaker is currently in full swing at the 2024 Tokyo Auto Salon with the Toyota, Gazoo Racing, and Lexus brands with lots of new, custom, tuned, and motorsport models. However, there's one notable absentee.
If you look from afar, Toyota – especially its Gazoo Racing specialist, has everything on display: from the little iQ GRMN supercharged to the massive Century GRMN. And there really is almost everything in between, like the old AE86 made modern as a BEV Concept, the all-new refreshed GR Yaris plus countless other derivatives, and some mighty GR Corolla options.
However, there's no GR Supra on the list, even though Lexus went as far as to include the GR Corolla inside its LBX Morizo RR Concept! Maybe Toyota didn't want to have people laugh about the controversial connection to the BMW Z4 and the fact that it's produced in Austria by Magna Steyr instead of at home in Japan by Toyota.
Or perhaps the company was ashamed of its disappointing performance in America – even though it outsold its Nissan Z direct competitor, it still fared more than 45% worse compared to 2022. Anyway, nobody knows what happened internally and why Toyota refrained from having a cool GR Supra on display – but here's an example that would have looked at home at the 2024 Tokyo Auto Salon because it pays homage to the event's main focus – the world of tuning.
Unfortunately, it's utterly wishful thinking because it stems from the imaginative realm of digital car content creators. More precisely, the automotive artist & designer better known as pistonzero across social media demonstrates his love for the BMW Z4 sibling in the best way possible – he envisions an Mk5 GR Supra that he would buy and drive on a daily basis.
Apparently, the pixel master was put off by the front fascia of the fifth generation, so in order to like it even more, he ended up performing a subtle facelift (notice the angled bumper vent columns and the Supra script between the headlights. Naturally, this CGI expert's signature traits have a lot to do with the aftermarket culture and treated the GR Supra to his usual array of aerodynamic and technical enhancements.
So, this is not only a 'facelifted' Supra, but it's also a Toyota that was slammed to the point of jeopardizing ants, fitted with lots of black aerodynamic elements, widened at the front and rear enough to make Liberty Walk or Rocket Bunney fans ecstatic, and also got slapped a pair of black or white Rotiform wheels. Naturally, he didn't forget about the cambered rear wheels, either! So, do you like it, or is the GR Supra's fate sealed as a potentially failed generation?
However, there's no GR Supra on the list, even though Lexus went as far as to include the GR Corolla inside its LBX Morizo RR Concept! Maybe Toyota didn't want to have people laugh about the controversial connection to the BMW Z4 and the fact that it's produced in Austria by Magna Steyr instead of at home in Japan by Toyota.
Or perhaps the company was ashamed of its disappointing performance in America – even though it outsold its Nissan Z direct competitor, it still fared more than 45% worse compared to 2022. Anyway, nobody knows what happened internally and why Toyota refrained from having a cool GR Supra on display – but here's an example that would have looked at home at the 2024 Tokyo Auto Salon because it pays homage to the event's main focus – the world of tuning.
Unfortunately, it's utterly wishful thinking because it stems from the imaginative realm of digital car content creators. More precisely, the automotive artist & designer better known as pistonzero across social media demonstrates his love for the BMW Z4 sibling in the best way possible – he envisions an Mk5 GR Supra that he would buy and drive on a daily basis.
Apparently, the pixel master was put off by the front fascia of the fifth generation, so in order to like it even more, he ended up performing a subtle facelift (notice the angled bumper vent columns and the Supra script between the headlights. Naturally, this CGI expert's signature traits have a lot to do with the aftermarket culture and treated the GR Supra to his usual array of aerodynamic and technical enhancements.
So, this is not only a 'facelifted' Supra, but it's also a Toyota that was slammed to the point of jeopardizing ants, fitted with lots of black aerodynamic elements, widened at the front and rear enough to make Liberty Walk or Rocket Bunney fans ecstatic, and also got slapped a pair of black or white Rotiform wheels. Naturally, he didn't forget about the cambered rear wheels, either! So, do you like it, or is the GR Supra's fate sealed as a potentially failed generation?
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