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      01-02-2019, 11:15 AM   #1142
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Originally Posted by supra93 View Post
I'm sure there will be a number of people with deep enough pockets, but it will be out of reach for the average joe. And this goes against what the design team and Tada san has said about Toyota wanting this car to be available to the mass.



I'm not an expert by any means, but we have take in account that this hypothetical LC base Supra would already be using a very expensive platform to start off with.

Edit: This may help some to better understand the styling disappointment. According to one of the interviews that Tada san did he stated that work with BMW actually began before the FT-1. The two projects were not related. However, after the FT-1 was unveiled it's styling was liked so much that Tada's team worked with the Calty design studio to incorporate some of the FT1's styling onto the joint sports car.
You would think having another sports car based on LC platform would help to spread the R&D costs. They also have a new TT 3.5 V6 from the LC500 that they could have put in this new Supra. The LS starts in the $70s not sure why Supra would need to be much more than that.

Toyota/ Lexus as usual just want the path of least resistance and bean counters want to save $$$ hence we got this compromised sports car.
BTW LC500 and LS500 are selling terribly so they could have used another model to spread the initial development cost.
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