Key facts
- Manufacturer
- Toyota
- Also called
- Toyota Celica XX (Japan, 1978–1986) Toyota Celica Supra (international, 1978–1986) Toyota GR Supra (2019–2026)
- Production
- April 1978 – August 2002 March 2019 – March 2026
- Class
- Sports car / grand tourer ( S )
- Body style
- 3-door liftback / fastback coupé
- Layout
- Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive
- Predecessor
- Toyota Celica (A20/A30)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- car model
- Subclass of
- grand tourer
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Manufacturer
- Toyota
- Official website
- toyota.jp/supra
- Image
- Toyota GR Supra (54487414218).jpg
- Brand
- Toyota
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Encyclopedic overview
The Toyota Supra (Japanese: トヨタ・スープラ, Hepburn: Toyota Sūpura) is a sports car and grand tourer manufactured and developed by the Toyota Motor Corporation beginning in 1978. The name "supra" is taken from the Latin prefix meaning "above", "to surpass" or "go beyond".
The initial four generations of the Supra were produced from 1978 to 2002. The fifth generation has been produced since March 2019 and later went on sale in May 2019. The styling of the original Supra was derived from the Toyota Celica, but it was longer. Starting in mid-1986, the A70 Supra became a separate model from the Celica. In turn, Toyota also stopped using the prefix Celica and named the car Supra. Owing to the similarity and past of the Celica's name, it is frequently mistaken for the Supra, and vice versa. The first, second and third generations of the Supra were assembled at the Tahara plant in Tahara, Aichi, while the fourth generation was assembled at the Motomachi plant in Toyota City. The 5th generation of the Supra is assembled alongside the G29 BMW Z4 in Graz, Austria by Magna Steyr.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Toyota Supra” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.