New Toyota Supra To Pair Electric Motors With A BMW Engine
It seems that our long wait for a Supra successor might be nearing the
end as reports starting to emerge again, giving us more details about
Toyota’s upcoming sports car.
Based on a platform commonly developed with BMW, the new Supra
will share many components with the Z4 successor but the Japanese
sports car will be physically bigger than its Bavarian sibling as it
will use an extended version of the said platform.
Auto Express reports that both new models will come with a BMW petrol engine driving the rear wheels
and Toyota electric motors powering the front axle. It’s likely that
Toyota will use hybrid tech tested in its LeMans race cars and if that
happens, the new Supra will come with electric motors sending power to
both axles and the petrol engine driving only the rear, just like the
TS050 Hybrid.
The system will also feature regenerative braking which will store
energy in a lithium-ion battery pack while the new Supra will be
Toyota’s first model to come with a brand new double-clutch gearbox to
better match the sporting credentials of the car.
There is also the possibility of both BMW and Toyota
to offer at some point plug-in versions of their new models. The final
production car is expected to tip the scales at less than 1.400kg thanks
to BMW’s weight-saving methods and Toyota’s in-house designed electric
motors. With that said, the BMW is expected to be even lighter, thanks
to its smaller size.
The two new sports cars will debut within a few months of each other with the earliest prediction set at 2017.
(CarScoops.com)
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