{"id":100817,"date":"2014-06-25T16:11:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T14:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gtspirit.com\/?p=100817"},"modified":"2014-06-25T10:03:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T08:03:40","slug":"next-gen-toyota-supra-could-receive-convertible-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/2014\/06\/25\/next-gen-toyota-supra-could-receive-convertible-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"Next-Gen Toyota Supra Could Receive Convertible Variant"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n A convertible version of the next-generation Toyota Supra could launch with Toyota believed to be favouring it over a drop-top variant of the entry-level GT86 sports car.<\/p>\n While speaking with Drive at the 24 Hours Nurburgring, chief engineer from Toyota Tetsuya Tada said, “There are many business case study going on, [but] as we speak it is very hard to realise. There are many articles regarding another sports model from Toyota up higher from 86. I’m thinking convertible model will be on higher model … maybe.<\/p>\n “Our final goal [is that] we want to do three sports models from Toyota and at least one convertible model will be realistic,\u201d he said.<\/p>\r\n Tada said that the higher price of the next-generation Toyota Supra could make it more suitable for a convertible version rather than the cheaper GT86. <\/p>\n He also revealed that the Toyota FT-1 Concept will be just one of a few concept cars previewing possible styling directions for the next Supra. Tada said that the car will most likely feature a front-engined layout but a mid-engined layout is also being considered.<\/p>\n On top of revealing this information about the next Toyota Supra, Tada doused recently speculation about a GT86 sedan saying, \u201cI think this is okay from a philosophy point of view, but always the business case is the most difficult point to bring this to the market. We are studying this, but [more likely] this is pure concept.<\/p>\n [Via Drive<\/a>, Rendering via X-Tomi Design<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A convertible version of the next-generation Toyota Supra could launch with Toyota believed to be favouring it over a drop-top variant of the entry-level GT86 sports car. While speaking with Drive at the 24 Hours Nurburgring, chief engineer from Toyota Tetsuya Tada said, “There are many business case study going on, [but] as we speak […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":100828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10,23191],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}