Toyota Supra Concept Debuts With TRD Carbon-Fiber Goodies

Toyota doesn’t limit its TRD badge to off-road trucks and SUVs. Toyota has spread the label to the Camry, Avalon, and just recently, the RAV4. So it’s no surprise that Toyota has cooked up some TRD goodies for the Supra.

Toyota debuted the GR Supra Performance Line Concept TRD last week at Osaka Auto Messe, which specializes in customized cars. The silver exterior features carbon fiber on the front spoiler, trunk spoiler, side skirts, rear spats, and boomerang-shaped garnish on the doors. Toyota says the lightweight bits help improve aerodynamics for better performance. Topping it all off are 19-inch forged aluminum wheels painted in black.

Here in the U.S., the 2020 Toyota Supra comes standard with a 3.0-liter inline-six delivering 335 hp and 365 lb-ft of torque. That engine comes mated exclusively to an eight-speed automatic transmission. Both the engine and transmission are supplied by BMW, but the tuning of those units is said to be unique in the Supra. The sports car arrives at dealerships in the U.S. starting this summer.

It seems as if Toyota is spreading the TRD love throughout the lineup, so it’s likely we’ll see TRD bits for the U.S.-spec Supra. Eventually, some type of hotter Supra is likely to come out as well. We could see a Supra wearing the GRMN badge, as Supra chief engineer Tetsuya Tada hinted at in a report last year, though we’ve also heard GR-derived cars sold in the U.S. would be badged as TRD models.

Source: TRD via Facebook

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