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Written by Craig Jamieson
Make no mistake there"s a battle going on for what makes a car a success. But it"s not so much a war of words as it is a bleeding-knuckles, last-man-standing melee between words and numbers. It"s lightness" versus 789bhp", deftness" vs 0-62 in 2.9" and fun" vs 1.4g". And it"s a war that numbers seem to be winning we live in an age where new performance saloons need 600bhp before we take them seriously, where 700bhp is the supposed sweet spot for supercars and where we can discuss cars with four-figure power outputs without blanching. So when the new Toyota Supra came along with 335bhp, it"s fair to say that the proverbial needle scratched on the proverbial record, and the proverbial hipster complained because he just paid 50 for it over at Rough Trade Records. Those with a long enough memory (or access to the internet) will know that the last-gen Supra had about 325bhp when driven off the dealer forecourt, and about 600bhp every day afterwards. So how does the new Supra come along, 17 years later, with just 335 horsepower?
Date written: 12 Jun 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 15999
Make no mistake there"s a battle going on for what makes a car a success. But it"s not so much a war of words as it is a bleeding-knuckles, last-man-standing melee between words and numbers. It"s lightness" versus 789bhp", deftness" vs 0-62 in 2.9" and fun" vs 1.4g". And it"s a war that numbers seem to be winning we live in an age where new performance saloons need 600bhp before we take them seriously, where 700bhp is the supposed sweet spot for supercars and where we can discuss cars with four-figure power outputs without blanching. So when the new Toyota Supra came along with 335bhp, it"s fair to say that the proverbial needle scratched on the proverbial record, and the proverbial hipster complained because he just paid 50 for it over at Rough Trade Records. Those with a long enough memory (or access to the internet) will know that the last-gen Supra had about 325bhp when driven off the dealer forecourt, and about 600bhp every day afterwards. So how does the new Supra come along, 17 years later, with just 335 horsepower?
Date written: 12 Jun 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 15999
