if toyota would have built this in japan, i would have bought it...It's most likely a fiberglass shell over a rolling chassis as seen with most concept cars.
Case in point:
Going on the last MR2 we got stateside @ 25k in 2005, thats looking at like 36k now just based on inflation. I'll bet the new mister comes in around $42k
It was a neat trick, but I have a feeling that everything in the back in that presentation was CGI. Look at the light sources.
Yes, some of it was CGI in the video/press release photos, but there was also an actual physical concept car on stage during the presentation.
Odds are you're right. I keep going back and forth on it. Something about the way the back end was framed during the curtain drop, the objects in the background. I was struck with the feeling its not real. We've entered a time where you cant believe what you see on a screen. The flip side is that there are wheel chocks on those cars, and cameras from the audience would pick up any refresh rate from a screen or projection. It could just be the lighting and the interchangeability of what was shown on stage and the press materials.
As for the sports cars, I haven't paid much attention and quite hard to, as the A90 Supra disenchanted me. Plus, they're not necessarily TMS USA specific. Going off of recent renderings, these are very identical rumored LFA and MR2 replacements reported on months ago.
Funny enough, only the V8 powertrain is what Best Car got wrong, but more than a coincidence that these renderings and mention of 2025 came up, some 5 weeks (LFA II) to more than 1 year (MR2) before that presentation.
For the Japanese media to be passing that around well in advance of this presentation, tells me that these are some 36-48 months out.
Tetsuya Tada interesting started discussing publicly in 2019 MR2, after this rendering came out in 2018 too...
Look at the form of the design study...
Seems like Toyota got inspiration or they had similar ideas.
2013 Avalon took 3 1/2 years to design from 2007 to 2010, arriving in December 2012. 3 1/2 years extremely excessive, for mass market vehicle. They spent less than half the time on 2019 model.
Maybe the new MR2 was developed carefully over a long period and has reached semi-definitive levels, only waiting for production proposal and then design freeze?
If it's an EV does it still need those scoops and vents on the rear quarter panel?
So at max we'll see it in 2026.
...wonder what the trade in value of the z will be by then?So at max we'll see it in 2026.
?‍...wonder what the trade in value of the z will be by then?
