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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
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i know for the twins its due to Toyota owning 20% (now) of Subby.
as per the BMW thing, the justification was "Toyota decided against developing its own straight-six, which although did upset purists, it’s a business move that makes sense considering the Supra won’t be a high-volume car." edit: They prolly wanted to have something in all market segments and have it be cheap on their pocket. I hear the first gens were horrible quality thou...
They are dumping their V8 and going to a twin turbo V6 for the trucks in coming years, so prolly focusing R&D on that. I guess they wanted the supra to have an inline one, and the trucks to keep the V engines, which most of their other cars have (v4 and v6 for camry, corolla, etc). edit: But yes, having another inline 6 bulletproof engine would have been nice for purists (Thou not a good financial decision for corp).
OFFTOPIC: as a total sidepoint to your post in other thread about you wanting an AWD car, look into volvo c30 t5 AWD swaps. it will need a suspension update as well for better handling.