Toyota is Developing a Toyota Supra Successor

Nov 4, 2015

One of the pre-owned Toyota cars Chicago drivers continually asked about is the Toyota Supra. While the Toyota Supra has been off the market since the late 1990s, there are still a lot of fans for the sports coupe and even more people interested in a new model. The good news is Toyota is planning on releasing a new model, and we may see a production version soon of a 2017 Toyota Supra.

The Toyota Supra was first produced in 1978 as a longer and wider version of the Toyota Celica. Owing to its popularity, Toyota eventually spun off the Toyota Supra into its own line in the mid-80s where it continued until 1998 in the United States and 2002 in Japan due to declining sales of small sports coupes as drivers here gravitated more and more towards large SUVs.

Recently with lower prices at gas stations and more and more baby boomers retiring looking for fun sports cars, there’s been lots of demand for Toyota to bring back the Toyota Supra. At this year’s Detroit Motor Show, Toyota teased fans with the reveal of the Toyota FT-1 concept, a front-engine, rear-wheel drive sports car with aggressive styling that will likely be the direct inspiration for a future 2017 Toyota Supra.

Toyota didn’t reveal much about it, but a production model would likely have a turbocharged 3.0L six-cylinder engine producing about 335 hp and 331 lb-ft of torque, along with a hybrid version that could get up to 473 hp.

Toyota has trademarked the Toyota Supra recently and Tetsuya Tada of Toyota has hinted there should be a more production-ready version that will debut in early 2016, likely at the 2016 Detroit Motor Show in January (appropriately a year after the Toyota FT-1 concept was first released).

Classic Toyota will keep you posted on the Toyota Supra as we learn more. In the meantime, you can take a look at the used cars for sale near Chicago in our online inventory or visit our dealership where you can find the latest 2016 Toyota cars. You can find Classic Toyota at 515 N. Green Bay Road in Waukegan, IL.