This car isn't for "the motoring world", it's for Toyota customers. They don't know about the BMW situation, they just know that Toyota's making a desirable performance car for the first time in 20 years. That's what halo cars are for.
They don't know about the BMW situation
Oh spare me...have you read one single review of it without the BMW mention? It's an enthusiast's car, and enthusiast's know what it is. It's not like a Camry where 90% of buyers are just looking for an appliance.
Did they have to pay dealer markup?Check this out, folks.......one of my colleagues in my church just brought it home a couple of days ago. Thought I'd share the photos. With it, of course, goes the complementary bottle of Scratch-Out I customarily give to those with new wheels.
Did they have to pay dealer markup?
That's true from an ultimate point of view, but a lot of people on the Toyota Forums resent the fact that it is basically a BMW product.
If all they did for the GRMN was to put a 2JZGTE with a 6MT Getrag, they'd sell out. lolThe Supra GRMN would be an instant buy for me when it comes in ~CY 2022.
If all they did for the GRMN was to put a 2JZGTE with a 6MT Getrag, they'd sell out. lol
I think whoever wrote that on Wikipedia is VERY wrong. It makes ZERO sense. The Getrag V160/V161 is a longitudinally mounted transmission for RWD architectures, whereas Yaris GR has a transversely-mounted engine and transmission. That erroneous Wikipedia post piqued my curiosity, but I found no conclusive information. The Toyota Global Newsroom's GR Yaris release doesn't show a transmission code, only describing it as a 6-speed iMT (Intelligent Manual Transmission). Further Wikipedia rummaging leads me to believe that the GR Yaris uses some variant of the EC60 higher-strength 6-speed manual transaxle family used on the current Toyota Corolla and on the Lotus Elise. Wikipedia separately lists EC62, EC65 and EC69 variants, but no additional information....Now I've seen on Wikipedia that the GR Yaris uses a "V16-series" manual which hyperlinks to the Toyota V160 and V161 manuals that is made by Getrag that were put in previous Supra's and other JDM cars.
This is interesting to me because Toyota had a sh*t load of beef with Getrag and separated after the A80 Supra. So if this thing from Wikipedia is true, then it is really f*cking shocking that they're teaming up again, and because Getrag makes bomb-a** manuals, then I would highly expect a manual Supra soon. Tada-san and the Toyota engineers did not like the BMW manuals because they have really poor feel, and people have been raving about the manual in the GR Yaris.
I think whoever wrote that on Wikipedia is VERY wrong. It makes ZERO sense. The Getrag V160/V161 is a longitudinally mounted transmission for RWD architectures, whereas Yaris GR has a transversely-mounted engine and transmission. That erroneous Wikipedia post piqued my curiosity, but I found no conclusive information. The Toyota Global Newsroom's GR Yaris release doesn't show a transmission code, only describing it as a 6-speed iMT (Intelligent Manual Transmission). Further Wikipedia rummaging leads me to believe that the GR Yaris uses some variant of the EC60 higher-strength 6-speed manual transaxle family used on the current Toyota Corolla and on the Lotus Elise. Wikipedia separately lists EC62, EC65 and EC69 variants, but no additional information.
To my knowledge, unlike engines, a given transmission or transaxle (transmission, axle and differential in one integrated assembly) can't simply be rotated and adapted from transverse to longitudinal placement (or vice versa).Can the V160/V161 pair well with permanent AWD architectures too?... Could it ever be possible that they shifted the transmission to be transverse or is that simply not possible? To me it seems almost impossible to do so but I'm just asking anyways.