2009 Supra....will be a Hybrid?

[nismogt_rfreak]

Originally Posted by Jay!

The Cadillac Cien. That thing was awesome. Of course they didn't make that one...

It's too bad, It was a gorgeous car.

[GForce957]

at least it got some action in The Island, even tho that was a bad movie

[nismogt_rfreak]

I thought The Island wa OK. I've seen better, but I've definatly seen much worse.

[XeVeNskyLiNE]

Originally Posted by GForce957

at least it got some action in The Island, even tho that was a bad movie

I liked that movie. Yea the Cien's one of the few concepts I can think of that were nice. It whooped ass in GT4 too. But concepts look so damn screwy these days it hard to base this Supra's looks off the actual product. I like the rear end, and the front end could look better with some more tweaks.

[drunken monkey]

In defense of the design of the Supra replacement concept;
The strange chunky at the corners look is because the original Volta concept was designed around a motor on each corner design; to conceptually provide 4 wheel drive when/as neccessary. That Vlota concept was also the one that started the whole hybrid supercar idea which seems to have been translated by the press as meaning Supra. That is on top of the fact that most seem to have forgotten that they currently have 3 supercar designs in various stages of testing/design.

As far as I know, they are very careful about using the Supra name because they are aware of its associations.

Put it this way, considering that they have just dropped the Corolla name after god knows how many years and its past successes in WRC in the godly hands of Carlos Sainz, it's not likely that they will just use the Supra name lightly.