Toyota Just Teased What Could Be a Wild Electric Supra...Toyota's next-gen electric cars don't look like they'll be boring.

www.gearpatrol.com ^ | OCT 16, 2023 | BY TYLER DUFFY

[Red Badger]

The FT-Se concept’s interior shows a "steering apparatus" that may play into the same steer-by-wire EV system as the Lexus RZ.

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Toyota has been slow in adopting EVs; the bZ4X is the only current model. But the Japanese brand has big plans for EV battery tech, and Toyota may be poised to become a dominant player in the EV space.

What will that future look like? Toyota is previewing it with two new concepts at the Japan Mobility Show. There's no electric pickup yet. But one of the two concepts definitely looks like an electric Supra.

Meet the Toyota FT-Se Concept

Toyota calls the FT-Se its "high-performance sports BEV." It looks like a concept version of an electric Supra and carries GR branding like the GR Supra and GR86 sports cars. It shares a platform with Toyota's other EV concept being revealed, the FT-3e crossover.

Toyota described the concept as having "wide and low proportions" to reduce drag. One of the significant innovations with Toyota's next-gen battery pack will be reducing the height of battery packs for better aerodynamic efficiency.

The Toyota FT-Se has a yoke

The FT-Se concept uses a yoke-like steering apparatus. Toyota has been a proponent of this design with EVs. The Lexus RZ offers one with its steer-by-wire technology. And the related Toyota bZ4X and Subaru Solterra have cockpits that look like they were designed for one.

The FT-Se features a driver-centric layout with the instrument display low and recessed and two screens flanking the steering apparatus to the right and left.

The FT-Se concept also offers knee pads

Toyota says the FT-Se Concept has "newly designed knee pads" that "protect the driver from G-forces during driving."

Will Toyota's electric sports car get a manual?

Toyota chairman Akio Toyoda confirmed in June 2023 that he had driven a prototype for a GR electric sports car and that it had featured a manual transmission with a clutch. Lexus's electric LFA successor has also been linked with having a manual transmission.

When will Toyota's electric sports car arrive?

Toyota has not announced when it will produce an electric sports car. The FT-Se concept looks a ways off being a production car. And we expect Toyota will prioritize more mass-market projects like the three-row SUV and electric pickup. Toyota is supposed to roll out its next-gen EV battery and platform technology in 2026, which could be when we see the sports car.

[Vaduz]

Agree

[Poser]

Want. Won't buy, but I'd take one if they give it away. My MR2 Spyder is getting old!

[basalt]

look junior barnes...the speedometer went to 200 and on a July night in 1994 on the John C Lodge expressway leading into downtown Detroit, i buried that needle all the way to 200..T-W-O H-U-N-D-R-E-D M.P.H.....that car was FLYIN. You go read your little test articles from magazines...I ACTUALLY OWNED ONE AND DID IT....lol.

[mowowie]

Iv’e read that 145 a bunch of times and probably most likely true.
If my speedo was correct the few times i went crazy on a flat straight highway redlined in 5th the speedometer would read 149mph....just a tiny bit below the 150 mark.
It was more a luxury cruiser than a all out sports car.
I liked the heavy weighted feel of the car.

[mowowie]

Yea you could not compare the design and build quality between the Supra to mustangs or camaro’s.
The Supra was a much more expensive car though...

[mowowie]

I went from a 80 Z-28 to the Supra.
What a difference!

[Blue Highway]

The speedometer didn’t even show 200, it was 140 for the 1986 and 160 for 1987.

[basalt]

i had a 1987 1/2 ..and it went to 200...now go away...

[Blue Highway]

Enjoy your delusions

[basalt]

talk to me when you actually own one....which will never happen.

[Blue Highway]

Dude you're a real piece of work. I'm finding proof you are wrong and you continue to look like an idiot. The speedometer never went to 200. Here's a 1987 Supra that was sold at an auction online. Many interior shots where you can see the speedometer. Tell me what that number says.

[Blue Highway]

Here's the link that I found the pictures and there's plenty more. Funny seeing someone trying to rationalize their over exaggerated lie and continuing to double down the exact way liberals do.

1987 Toyota Supra

[Blue Highway]

Here's another 1987 Supra Turbo in silver. Same speedo as the other one. How do you determine when you hit the mythical 200mph when the speedometer tops out at 150?

1987 Toyota Supra Turbo silver

[basalt]

again...for the tenth time...i had a 1987 1/2..HALF...HALF HALF.....different model car than you keep showing. The speedometer went to 200....i actually buried the needle twice ..and the car handled it beautifully. I cruised at 140-150 many many times, especially on a trip to Colorado. Now...go away....

[Blue Highway]

Guess what, I had a 1987 3/4 model and my speedometer went to 300 mph. I got to 272 and I realized if I went any faster I would have burst into flames. See how that sounds?

[basalt]

you never came close to owning anything like these cars...stick to what you know, Ford pick up trucks...

[basalt]

used ones of course...