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Written by Stephen Dobie
It"s no secret that the new BMW Z4 and Toyota Supra share their platforms and mechanical bits. Even before we"ve seen the Supra shorn of disguise, though, it"s very clear they"re going to be very different looking cars. BMW design boss Adrian Van Hooydonk told Top Gear at the LA Auto Show that the two cars were designed almost entirely separately. "It was a very, very easy collaboration in terms of design," Hooydonk told us. "First of all, Toyota came to us because they respect BMW"s work in terms of dynamics and sporty cars. Akio Toyoda himself loves driving and when he first visited us he brought a crash helmet as he wanted to take our product out on the test track. Which he did! "Then I met the design chief of Toyota. He"s Japanese and I"m Dutch, but we immediately understood each other in terms of what we want from our engineers, and in proportions. That was one conversation, that"s all it took. We immediately agreed on the hard points and what we want in terms of proportions. And they were also what the engineers needed in terms of performance.
Date written: 3 Dec 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 14210
It"s no secret that the new BMW Z4 and Toyota Supra share their platforms and mechanical bits. Even before we"ve seen the Supra shorn of disguise, though, it"s very clear they"re going to be very different looking cars. BMW design boss Adrian Van Hooydonk told Top Gear at the LA Auto Show that the two cars were designed almost entirely separately. "It was a very, very easy collaboration in terms of design," Hooydonk told us. "First of all, Toyota came to us because they respect BMW"s work in terms of dynamics and sporty cars. Akio Toyoda himself loves driving and when he first visited us he brought a crash helmet as he wanted to take our product out on the test track. Which he did! "Then I met the design chief of Toyota. He"s Japanese and I"m Dutch, but we immediately understood each other in terms of what we want from our engineers, and in proportions. That was one conversation, that"s all it took. We immediately agreed on the hard points and what we want in terms of proportions. And they were also what the engineers needed in terms of performance.
Date written: 3 Dec 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 14210
