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No sooner is the 2018 Paris Motor Show over and we"ve one eye on the approaching LA shindig. But the new Toyota Supra won"t be revealed until the Detroit Motor Show in January 2019 a full FIVE years after the gorgeous FT-1 concept stole the 2014 Detroit headlines. So, when TopGear.com sat down for a chat with Toyota"s European CEO Dr. Johan van Zyl in Paris, our first question was, quite simply, what"s taking you guys so long ? And will exciting Toyotas always be such a long-running tease? "I think one of the things that"s driving us is how to be more agile [as a brand], and how to shorten these lead times," Dr. Van Zyl said. "In the future we think we will be able to reduce some of the development time. But not just that: in Europe we"re focusing on model-based design and development. But of course, it takes a certain amount of time to made a good quality car. And of course, [the Supra] was a joint-venture"
Date written: 4 Oct 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 13573
No sooner is the 2018 Paris Motor Show over and we"ve one eye on the approaching LA shindig. But the new Toyota Supra won"t be revealed until the Detroit Motor Show in January 2019 a full FIVE years after the gorgeous FT-1 concept stole the 2014 Detroit headlines. So, when TopGear.com sat down for a chat with Toyota"s European CEO Dr. Johan van Zyl in Paris, our first question was, quite simply, what"s taking you guys so long ? And will exciting Toyotas always be such a long-running tease? "I think one of the things that"s driving us is how to be more agile [as a brand], and how to shorten these lead times," Dr. Van Zyl said. "In the future we think we will be able to reduce some of the development time. But not just that: in Europe we"re focusing on model-based design and development. But of course, it takes a certain amount of time to made a good quality car. And of course, [the Supra] was a joint-venture"
Date written: 4 Oct 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 13573
