Toyota knew from the onset that the new Supra, like its predecessors, needed to have an inline-six engine. But since Toyota doesn't currently build an inline-six, it had to go somewhere else. "It wasn’t a matter of lowering costs,” Tada said. "The Supra had to have an inline-six. BMW had a good inline-six.” Tada explained that for Toyota to build its own in-house inline-six engine, it would have required "another factory" and asked, "how realistic would that be?”
Toyota simply didn't see enough future potential for an inline-six in other vehicles. "Aside from the Supra, there aren’t too many cars in existence now where an inline-six would be better than the engines we’ve already built,” he said. "In the past, lots of automakers had straight sixes. You should know exactly why. It’s a very difficult engine to package. You lose space for the driver and the passenger.” That's why this new Supra lacks a back seat - because it would have been too difficult to package.
22 You Might Also Like 12 Weird & Wonderful Gauge Clusters The Worst Cars Of The 2000s 1 When the 86 was co-developed with Subaru, Toyota made a similar packaging decision to use a boxer engine. "Everyone thinks it was for a low center of gravity, but that’s not true,” Tada explained. "We always wanted [the 86] to be a two plus two. And Boxer engines are very short."
Published @ May 6, 2019
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