This article is translated by the author - Qaga User: PRND21
Tested: 1993 Toyota Supra Turbo
1993 Toyota Supra Turbocharger
Introduction: This is Like Smoky Yunick's Lexus.
Written at the beginning: This article is translated from the 1993 article published by the AMERICAN media Car & Driver, the author is John Phillips, and the translator's interpretation, spitting, and teasing will be marked with "[ ]". "Smokey" Yunick, whose real name is Henry Yunick, was a legendary driver and designer of the early Nascar – in short, the big guy is right!
Toyota's original Supra was an illegitimate child: it was just an 110-horsepower version of the Celica, a car that no one loved. During the test drive in 1979, our editors commented on "pretending to be a Monte Carlo," "the car had tedious steering and sluggish suspension," and thought that Supra would soon be blowing out the lights.
[The first generation of pork chops, also known as "Toyota celica Supra", belongs to the relatively large and luxurious style of Celica, equipped with a 2.6-liter straight six engine can produce 110 horsepower (82 kilowatts), the same car later became independent, becoming the first generation of "Toyota Supra"]
[The original Supra (Celica-supra) was called Celica XX in Mainland Japan.] Since the emissions are not as harsh as those of the United States, the local version of the 2.0-liter straight six engine has reached the same 82 kilowatts.
After that, however, everything changed dramatically.
From 1979 onwards, the Supra became a separate car family and gradually developed its own genealogy. The red car in front of us is now the fourth generation of pork chops – the speed has already soared from 110mph (about 177 km / h) to a full 160 mph (about 257 km / h). Now it shares the number of parts with Celica... It is similar to the number of parts shared by the oven and the Ferrari F40.
In fact, there is nothing wrong with this ghost animal metaphor, because this 93-model Supra Turbo is indeed a chowder master. It stole a lot of Ferrari F40 stylistic elements – like grille shapes, trapezoidal headlamps, giant calipers, etc. How do I think the two shapes are completely different...]. The giant tail wing seems to have been learned from something from French Aerospace, and thankfully it's just an option.
The 93 Supra shares a 3.0-liter straight-six gasoline engine with the Lexus SC300 and GS300. The self-priming version emits 220 horsepower at 5800 rpm, but when two turbochargers pop up on the right side of the iron lump, the plot direction is completely different: the maximum power has soared by 100 horsepower, and there is a staggering torque of 315 pound feet (about 427 Nm)! That's 43 Nm more than the twin-turbo Hercules Nissan 300ZX.
Supra used a turbocharger with a sequence layout. The small turbine can hit the full pressure with 2500 rpm, while the more expensive one will not officially join the battle until 4500 rpm, but after the intervention, the momentum is like a hook punch from Hollyfield! When the two turbines are fully turned on and the air is swallowed into the engine by the whale, you might want to check whether the traction control is on or off (it can be turned off) – on the multi-bend Atlanta track, even if it is a second-speed slow bend, the Pork Chop Turbo can easily draw a huge black bar with its huge Bridgestone 255/40ZR-17 sports tire.
If you slam on the throttle when cornering, there will be obvious oversteer. If you're timid at the moment, even if you're in a corner, simply lift the throttle, and the rear of the car will quickly get back on track, and a crosswalk will calm down without showing the mountain — unless you fly into Turn Three at a crazy speed of 140mph (about 225 km/h) like us, and the swing of the rear compresses the suspension trip to only the length of a cotton swab.
Both the Supra and Supra Turbo use a modified version of the Lexus SC300 platform, which is 5.5 inches shorter, with all four wheels featuring specially tuned geometry, coil springs and shock absorbers concentric arrangement. The total length... The new pork chop is 4.2 inches shorter than last year's old model.
Unless you've opted for Turbo's exclusive big tail fin, the Turbo and self-priming models are almost identical in appearance except for the exclusive 9.5-inch wide rim + 17-inch Bridgestone Potenza RE020 tire combination, without any special badges, bulges, or small configurations to highlight the turbo identity — meaning that on Woodward Avenue, the guy next to you is completely unaware of your low-key little pig chop — 11.2 seconds for the 1979 model 0-60 mph — It now takes just 4.6 seconds to rush to the same speed!
That is to say, this round and low-key toyota is faster than acura NSX, Dodge Stealth R/T Turbo [Dodge version of the Mitsubishi 3000GT turbo], Porsche 928GT - these three power sports cars 0-60mph take 5.2 seconds.
In fact, it's even more ferocious than the Mazda RX-7, Corvette LT1, Nissan 300ZX Turbo — it takes 5 seconds for both 0-60mph.
Although the success of the Supra depends largely on the response of the American market, the shape of this car is completely neon-style. The front of the car is a bit like the Ferrari F40, but if you kneel down and look closely, you will find that some things are not the same: there are as many as 10 headlights on the front of the car, which has a Christmas atmosphere. From the side, the lines and C-pillar mimic Honda's new Prelude (overture, somewhere also called pilu). The huge hatchback is reminiscent of his little brother Celica.
Looking at it from the back, the new Supra really is... forehead... Scary enough [that's what the original text meant anyway]. The ducktail design and the towering bumper make the car's butt appear soft and collapsed, while the clutter of elements at the rear will overwhelm your eyes: 8 baseball-sized taillights, 1 Toyota bull's head, 1 TOYOTA word, 1 high brake light with boring white surgery, and 1 handwritten Supra sticker.
Equally striking is the horizontal opening at the front of the rear arch, which is just a little above the rear brake [well, unlike the "new Supra" of today's BMW pedigree, this kind of opening is real].
Two new Supras will appear in the showroom in June, and market participants expect the self-priming version to start at about $36,000 and the pressurized version to be around $40,000. These predictions are not much different from nonsense, but if it is about the price, it is indeed quite competitive compared to the Mazda RX-7, Nissan 300ZX, Corvette, and the double-supercharged Dodge Stealth/Mitsubishi 3000.
To match the price, the brakes of the turbo pork chop were large enough to stop the Clinton campaign bus, and the braking was as strong as the current Corvette's brakes - we split three right-angle bends at a high speed of 120mph, and (such a high load of braking) did not cause the brake heat to decline.
The Turbo model's front brakes are 12.7 inches in diameter, specially scribed, and equipped with Cuisinart (a kitchenware brand that makes coffee machines and food processors) style suction fins, while the rear brakes are 12.8 inches in diameter, larger than the Corvette ZR1.
Strangely enough, the naturally aspirated version of Supra was replaced with two other sizes of brake discs – which means that pork chops have 4 types of brake discs. Principal Engineer Isao Tsuzuki explains: "By using different (sized) wheels and different under-spring masses, we were able to achieve a high degree of balance in handling in both versions of the Supra. "It's really a company that pays a lot of attention to detail.
In terms of weight, the bull head does show the same sense of responsibility: compared with the old Sumo Supra, which is as "heavy" as sumo, the new car has lost 124 pounds (about 56 kilograms)! Tsuzuki admits that the combination of Japanese and American demand such as "sushi + soda" is really difficult, and they have held 950 meetings to tirelessly cut all kinds of unnecessary "fat oil", so even the adjustable shock absorption has been abandoned, and the retractable steering wheel has been cancelled. The double-out exhaust looks super cool but doesn't help horsepower, and after cutting it off, the car is 30 pounds lighter [so even the Turbo only has one side exhaust pipe].
Also for weight loss, the new pork chop also uses an aluminum alloy hood, roof, bumper bracket, and plastic fuel tank. To save a few pounds, the car used hollow anti-roll bars, and to save a few grams, they even equipped the car with hollow fiber carpets and hollow bolts on the head, which was also used on the engine. [Then the curb weight is close to 1.6 tons ... If you don't lose weight, won't your weight catch up with the 70 series of the same year...】
Weight loss also brought an added surprise to Supra: the center of gravity was therefore reduced by a full 1 inch! Coupled with the stout reed reduction concentric shock absorbers, the new car's roll is significantly reduced and its downstroke resistance is improved by about 20 percent, which means that even if it fights on the Atlanta track, the new car will not have a little fear – in fact, at speeds above 100 mph (about 161 km/h), the Supra is more robust than the RX-7 that is recognized as extremely sporty.
It's a platform with a really good foundation, as tough as a granite tombstone. The lateral skating limit also reached a surprising 0.95g. [This achievement is also available today, let alone 28 years ago...]
The naturally aspirated version of pork chop comes standard with a 5-speed manual, while the Turbo version comes with Getrag's 6-speed manual box. As you can imagine, Gear 6 is for the Scots, and it allows the car to travel in a cost-saving mode of 2200 rpm and 96 km/h – when the pressurization can't be played at all. ["For the Scots" may refer to the meme that the Scots are poor]
The shift stroke is about as short as the length of a Bic lighter, and the length and thickness of the gear handle itself are as small as a paper tube in the middle of the hand paper. Coupled with a lightweight clutch, the shifts are as smooth and swift as the elf Miata. However, there are two things that make us a little uncomfortable: the handbrake and the gear lever are too close, and the speed ratio gap between the 2nd and 3rd gears is too large, which can easily lead to pressure relief.
(A Japanese Supra without a tail wing.) After the spoiler, the car always looks like something is missing... ）
The view inside the car is similar to that of competitors of the same level, even if the big tail is selected, it is OK - it is too high, but it does not block anything at all. In the center of the meter is a huge tachometer with a red line of 6800 rpm, and the bottom of the right speedometer has reached a staggering 180mph (about 290 km/h) – Tsuzuki seriously said that an early test mule car can really explode.
The front seat of the new Supra is a bit like the 911's, with narrow padding and backrest, and the cushion style is very traditional - of course, Raymond Burr estimates that these are not needed [the play here may be Burr's "Wheelchair Detective" meme... I don't know the actor]. Like in the 911, the pork chop seat is very comfortable and supportive.
We prefer the standard fabric seats to the optional leather fabric, which is more breathable and frictional. Of course, black and tan cowhide creates a naugaheide-like premium effect.
The position of the throttle and brake pedals is convenient for the heel toe, and the fixed foot pedals for resting the left foot are specially designed. If only the sound panel could have been so carefully laid out – it would have been perfect to design a sound panel in a place crammed with air vents and a large digital clock today, but now it's thrown in the lower part of the center console and it's not easy to use.
In terms of instrumentation, the pork chop is also stupid: the digital odometer is too big, encroaching on some of the space of the speedometer. Meaningless design.
[Although there is a second row, you'd better think of the new Supra simply as a two-seater sports car [rather than a 2+2]. Joe Pesci may indeed be able to force himself into the back row, but even he, at that time, I am afraid to spit out the fragrance [Joe Percy is the big guy who has acted in movies such as "Once Upon a Time in America" and "The Irishman", and is only 1.6 meters tall" and "6 meters tall").
In addition to this, a large bulge on the side of the gearbox also encroached on part of the passenger's foot space. When you open the hatchback door, you'll find that luggage space is shallow, the volume is disappointing, and even folding the back seat doesn't change much. Oh yes, the interior of this car we don't think it has reached the luxury of a $36,000 sports car.
The former Supra was a sporty two-door hard-top cruiser, presumably the Asian version of the Ford Thunderbird SC. Now its positioning has changed, and the sales target has changed to the people who linger in the Nissan showroom next to the 300ZX – this part of the [not bad money] customers is definitely a minority.
After a long day of racing the track, we wondered if the new Supra would face an identity crisis: it was indeed a fast car, but it was neither a pure sport car like the Mazda RX-7, nor could it offer the level of design, luxury and prestige of the Nissan 300ZX.
But from another point of view, the new Supra and the manual version of the Lexus SC300 are brothers of the alien twin, regardless of size, shape, powertrain or price. The SC300 is luxurious, sophisticated, and elegant, while brother Supra's suspension is tougher, the steering feel is more direct, and it's as swift as Clyde Drexler [Clyde Drexler is an NBA star, nicknamed the "glider"]. Both routes have their own fans, and Toyota only half-jokingly said that "this is a different wish for the 40th birthday."
Although some C/D editors have not yet experienced 4 photos of crisis, the beautiful scene of long-term relationship with this "Little Lingzhi" seems to be close to our eyes. Today, Supra is a descendant of the nobility. With the exception of some sales that go around selling Corvette, there will never be anyone who dares to joke that Supra is "just an illegitimate child."
[At that time, the Supra/Supra Turbo also offered a Targa model, with a detachable hardtop, and when installed, the style was almost the same as the hardtop version]
Vehicle specifications
Front rear drive, 2+2 seats, 2-door hatchback
$42,000
In-line six cylinders, double overhead camshafts, 24 valves, twin turbo with intercooled, cast iron block, aluminum cylinder head, manifold injection
2997cc
320 hp @ 5600 rpm427 Nm @ 4000 rpm
Suspension (Front/Rear): Control Arm/Multi-Link Brake (Front/Rear): 12.7" ventilated disc / 12.8" ventilated disc
Tires: Bridgestone Potenza RE020, F: 235/45ZR-17 R: 255/40ZR-17
Wheelbase: 100.4 inches (about 2550mm) Length: 177.7 inches (about 4514mm) Width: 71.3 inches (about 1811mm) Height: 50.2 inches (about 1275mm) Occupancy space: About 2039 liters Of luggage volume: About 283 liters Of curb weight: 3480 pounds (about 1578 kg)
0-96 km/h acceleration: 4.6 seconds 0-161 km/h acceleration: 11.1 seconds 0-209 km/h acceleration: 19.9 seconds 0-241 km/h acceleration: 29.6 seconds rolling start, 8-96 km/h: 5.9 seconds 6 gears, 48-80 km/h halfway acceleration: 13.1 seconds 6 stops, 80-113 km/h halfway acceleration: 8.1 seconds
1/4 mph linear acceleration: 13.1 seconds, tail speed 109 mph (about 175.4 km/h) Extreme speed (electronic speed limit): 160 mph (about 257 km/h) 112 km/h brake: Approx. 48.8 m skid limit (300 ft diameter): 0.95 g
(Put two JDM version of the final pork chop at the end, everyone is happy)