3 model families in the catalog.
1967–1970Ancestor
The Six-Cylinder Argument: Toyota's 2000GT
In December 1964, Yamaha Motor was a motorcycle and engine builder with a sports car it could not sell. It had already pitched Nissan on a joint two-seater project and been turned down; Nissan's management saw no case for the risk. So Yamaha's executives took the same idea across town to Toyota, a company that at the…
1978–2002; 2019–present
The Engine That Outlived the Car: Toyota's Supra, Built Twice, Loved Continuously
When Toyota's engineers signed off on the twin-turbocharged inline-six that would define the fourth-generation Supra, they built in a margin nobody driving the car off the showroom floor in 1993 needed. The 2JZ-GTE ran a cast-iron block, generously sized main bearings, and forged internals under a factory rating that…
1984–2007
The Toyota MR2: Three Different Answers to the Same Question (1984–2007)
In 1979, a Toyota testing-department engineer named Akio Yoshida began working through a brief that had started three years earlier as something closer to a fuel-economy exercise than a sports-car program: a small, enjoyable, efficient two-seater, with engine placement left open for evaluation. Yoshida's team worked…