Next Supra Reportedly Part Of New Toyota Performance Sub Brand

Ah, the Toyota Supra rumour mill. That ever turning, frequently contradictory rumour mill that we can’t help but pay attention to. Wondering what it has for us today? Allow us to continue…

The latest report comes from Autocar, and the big news being touted is that the Supra will form the beginnings of a new Toyota performance sub brand. Toyota’s take on BMW’s M Division, if you will.

This is something which has been rumoured in the past, but has failed to materialise. With a Supra successor however, Toyota would have the perfect product to launch such a thing, particularly as power outputs of up to 400bhp are still being reported.

The 400bhp, range-topping version is expected by many to be a twin-turbo V6 hybrid, and the presence of a six-cylinder petrol/electric motor combo was sort of confirmed by an electric motor-like whine heard in spy footage released earlier in the year (above). Autocar expects there to be 2.0-litre, four-cylinder models lower down in the pecking order, with up to 300bhp on tap.

Since it’d be blasphemy for a BMW to run a V6 instead of a straight-six, it’s expected that Munich’s side of this joint sports car project with Toyota - which will result in a Z4-replacing ‘Z5’ - will run its own engines. We can anticipate the usual range of four and six-cylinder engines, and who knows, maybe there’ll be a Z5M with the M3/M4’s angry S55 straight-six.