Toyota Supra 2010

So, a lot more is expected from the latest generation Supra. Furthermore, the Toyota Supra has also won the award of Popular Mechanics Engineering and Design Award in the year 1994. It was also in featured a list of Ten Best list for the years 1983 and 1984 in the Car and Driver magazine.

As far as the awards bagged by the vehicle are concerned, the MK2 with all its new design became a success in the United States market where the vehicle was awarded with the Import Car of the year award by the Motor Trend Group. Despite the features like traction control, dual air bags, larger wheels, additional turbo, larger tires and larger brakes, the vehicle was lighter than the previous model by 91 kilo grams. Other features include hollow carpet fibers, dished out head bolts, plastic gas tank, magnesium steering wheel, single pipe exhaust and the gas injected rear spoiler. In order to reduce the weight of the vehicle, aluminum was used for constructing its top, hood, transmission pans, front cross-member and the upper suspension A-arms. The transmissions offered by the vehicle include 5-speed W58 manual, 4-speed A341E automatic and the 6-speed V16x manual transmissions.

The vehicle offered in two types of engines the 3 liter 2JZ-GE I6 and the 3 liter 2JZ-GTE I6. The vehicle was assembled at the Motomachi, Japan, based on the JZA8x platform.  The last model produced under the Supra label was released in the year 1993 and it was the last vehicle under the Supra name and ended its production in the year 20