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Originally Posted by Lelandjt
Now that the car's been on sale for most of a year I think some of the arguments we heard against a turbo version have evaporated:
Toyota can see they have a hit on their hands because it sells every car as soon as it arrives at a dealer so it can be more than a low volume model.
People ARE willing to spend the supposed $10k more that a turbo would cost because they're spending that just for dealer markup.
Stealing sales from the Supra 2.0 is a non-issue because no one's buying that car anyway. It's a dud while the GR86 is a hit. You focus on your winners, not worrying about saving sales of a non-seller that you have to buy from BMW before you can even sell it.
While a year and a half ago I thought there was basically no chance of seeing a turbo model, now I think there's a decent chance.
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There is still zero chance. You are trying to rationalize a business case that just isn't there. They sold every car that hit the lots for the first 3 years of the first gen and there is no turbo.
As they said this is a one race series engine to trial different fuels. Reading more into that is just a pipe dream.
This whole "Saving sales for Supra" is another piece of fiction that get's bantered around by people that think they know better than Toyota. The Supra has sold just fine with everything made sold and if they wanted a turbo 86 they would just build it.