I'd be willing to bet they will resurrect the nameplate in some form like they did with the MR2. Nissan and Mazda have already brought back their sports coupes, and the name "Supra" is still very recognizable (sounds cool too).Originally posted by: MazerRackham
I was wondering why Toyota stopped production of the Supra. Are they ever going to bring it back? It seems like with the current import racing craze they could really make some jack if they started making more of those babies.
Originally posted by: MazerRackham
I was wondering why Toyota stopped production of the Supra. Are they ever going to bring it back? It seems like with the current import racing craze they could really make some jack if they started making more of those babies.
Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: lizium
I just heard this story this morning, I wasn?t present but a friend of mine who was there on a few occasions retold it to me. My good buddy is friends with a guy who is into car import business, mostly exotics. They recently resold a 2001 Porsche GT3, which he basically had for a few weeks to drive! It just came from Germany, and needed US conversions, so he drove this thing around town in the meantime. He had a 355 birlenetta before that. Too bad I didn?t know about this earlier, hehe.
tha GT3 Check it out. COPY AND PASTE:
http://www.geocities.com/lizium/jimmy-gt3.jpg (edit stupid host doesnt allow BBS images)
So given the fact that most people don?t know what the fruck a GT3 is, he was always getting into sh1t with ricers on the street trying to race him. He was being conservative at first, since it?s not his $150,000 peace of carbon fiber, but then he finally snapped and raced some ricer. The dude in his riced up supra pulled in, and was like "what you got in there" so Jimmy (the guy driving GT3) goes "Nothing, its all strock", the ricer laughs and goes at it as soon as they pass first few feet onto the freeway ramp (apparently the ricer followed him to the freeway). The supra revs and pulls ahead doing about 90 mph, while Jimmy is still thinking about it, doing his legal 55. After a few seconds of hesitation he shifts 3'rd, within a second or two flying past the supra, shifts 4'th while the supra is a few hundred feet behind him, then finally shifts 5'th doing 160 or so mph and breaks to legal speed again.
He said he kept doing little races like that for a few more days, with Vettes and all sorts of ricers. Then he was enjoying himself so much, he kept telling people that it was a regular non-turbo 911, with a wide body kit hahaha, the poor civic lovers must have pissed their pants trying to see what him them.
Apparently this thing can do 190+ MHP and 0-60 in 4.6 seconds.
Buahahaha, the GT3 is da sh!t. And it's faster than 4.6 seconds 0-60. It's closer to 4.
Originally posted by: KokomoGST
Well, seems like some people have a different concept of what "rice" is... ricers is a short unisex term for riceboys in my definition. And riceboys do not have any true performance in their cars. So a sub13 second Supra TT MkIV is not ricer. It's JAP... go ahead... call it Jap all you friggin want... I don't care. $28k for a used Supra TT + 30k in mods will have you running with the GT3 or GT2 if you know your $hit. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if they absolutely blew the Porsche out of the water. For 40k in mods... I wouldn't be surprised if you were pumping out 800+hp... weight? lag? so what... you'd annhilate anything in your path with just raw power.
Supras are raced in many forms of professional competition in Japan as are other Japanese supercars. Yes, I said supercars. Sure, Porsches and other exotics are fine pieces of engineering but you can't tell me a built Supra or Skyline GTR (or supercar killers like EVOs & WRXs) can't annhilate them for far less money? Heck, the R34 GTR VspecII has a price that's pretty far up there and the turnkey speed to match. Heck, in some race competition classes, the Skyline was actually banned because it was just too fast. I believe that an Evo owns the 2nd place time on Nurburgring after the GT2.
Oh, and it's not like exotics are terribly reliable either... they are kinda expected to break down when run hard. Modified Supras are actually very reliable if they're tuned correctly. Their engines are horrendously overengineered unlike the tightrope dance that most exotics are. Pootech where are you getting this "engine wear" stuff from? Operational engine wear is not what causes tuned high performance cars to break. Detonation, overboost, holed pistons, overheating, etcetc. and other maladies are to blame for killing engines. Running nitrous (NOS is a company!!) _properly_ will mean reliable and effective boost in hp as long as there's something left in your bottle. And 240 in a Supra not being all boost? Well, actually... it would be all boost since the majority of the power to make it to 240mph would have to be provided by the turbos... that's boost. Pooteh, I'm sorry but you need to do some more homework.
That goddamn movie ruined it for all the real import enthusiasts.
Oh, and don't knock us Eclipses... there's a reason why Supras, DSMs, and RX7s dominate the Sport Compact Street tire classes. 9-10second ets are nothing to sneeze at on street tires.
EDIT: grammar and defending DSM honor
Originally posted by: lizium
Yes they are legal; power has nothing to do with it. As long as the car meets bumper and emission requirements, and some basic crash test its good to go.
190 mhp is not smooth sailing, but its VERY drivable. I rido in Ferarri's and all kinds of Porsches when i lived in Germany, and 300kmh (about 180 mph) is nothign special, people with fast cars drive like that every day, and spoiled bastards with their F40's and EB110's do well over 200mph on clear roads, i've seen it.
Originally posted by: PCboy
Originally posted by: BatmanNate
A Supra, rice?? Did I miss something? I always thought that ricing refered to the practice of making your car LOOK fast as opposed to making it GO fast. A stock MKIV TT Supra has 330 HP. (that's more than the stock Z28 Camaro) That's fast in my book, not rice. Even my modest MKIII Supra boasts 230 HP stock, and I would never consider my car in the same league as ridiculously modified Integras, Civics, Eclipses, and all that other 4 cylinder crap. Besides, that Porsche costs more than a Viper Hennessy 800 TT, which would plain blow it out of the water.
Exactly. It's weird how the NSX is not considered a ricer car to some people. As most people would say "Honda = Rice". It must be because it WAS NOT in that stupid movie.
Originally posted by: dirtboy
Originally posted by: PCboy
Originally posted by: BatmanNate
A Supra, rice?? Did I miss something? I always thought that ricing refered to the practice of making your car LOOK fast as opposed to making it GO fast. A stock MKIV TT Supra has 330 HP. (that's more than the stock Z28 Camaro) That's fast in my book, not rice. Even my modest MKIII Supra boasts 230 HP stock, and I would never consider my car in the same league as ridiculously modified Integras, Civics, Eclipses, and all that other 4 cylinder crap. Besides, that Porsche costs more than a Viper Hennessy 800 TT, which would plain blow it out of the water.
Exactly. It's weird how the NSX is not considered a ricer car to some people. As most people would say "Honda = Rice". It must be because it WAS NOT in that stupid movie.
How can the NSX be considered rice?
Originally posted by: LongCoolMother
btw. my brother just got an S2000 2002 model earlier this week. is that a ricer? he doesnt have anything on it at least, no body kits/mods etc.
Originally posted by: NotoriousJTC
Originally posted by: LongCoolMother
btw. my brother just got an S2000 2002 model earlier this week. is that a ricer? he doesnt have anything on it at least, no body kits/mods etc.
Your brother is NOT a ricer.
However, if he soon decides to add a wide body kit, slap 10 stickers on it, fart can muffler, and add the obligatory double decker 'i-believe-i-can-fly' Wing to it, then he will have officially wandered into Riceville.
My definition of a ricer is simple. If you add asthetic exterior mods to make your car to LOOK faster and SOUND faster, without having done anything to actually make the car GO faster, then you are infact, a ricer. Adding a turbo or doing significant engine upgrades that enhances the cars normal performance to that of a true sports car effectively lifts you from that ricer group and makes you, a racer (or whatever the opposite of ricer is ).
However, if he soon decides to add a wide body kit, slap 10 stickers on it, fart can muffler, and add the obligatory double decker 'i-believe-i-can-fly' Wing to it, then he will have officially wandered into Riceville.