Toyota GR Supra With Manual Transmission
The Toyota GR Supra will soon be available with a fully new custom-made manual transmission designed in response to the needs of customers and aficionados of the brand.
Customers and fans of Toyota GAZOO Racing sports vehicles expressed their desires, and Toyota was eager to hear them. As a result, the Toyota GR Supra with a whole new custom-made manual transmission will be available soon, according to the Japanese business.
"Specially engineered to fulfill the expectations of even the most demanding drivers," they claim. "The new Toyota GR Supra with a manual gearbox is designed to provide all lovers something closest to the DNA of GAZOO Racing, which will increase their driving experience."
The latest version of the sports vehicle with a manual gearbox from the GAZOO Racing line is unmistakably Toyota GR Supra, and as a bonus adds some new features that are, as Toyota puts it, "clean, original, and special."
They vowed to release more details in the coming weeks, but for now, they have only shared an image of the aforementioned red logo and the appearance of the pedals, which, like the GR Yaris or GR86, have three.
Recall, Toyota has designed a fake manual transmission for electric vehicles
Modern electric cars, and even hybrids, do not rely on traditional gearboxes, so it is likely that manual gearboxes will become extinct in the near future.
However, there will always be conservative drivers and classic car enthusiasts who will miss this relic of the past, therefore Toyota decided to provide them with a replacement answer.
Specifically, the Japanese automaker has applied for many patents relating to the installation of manual transmissions - in electric vehicles.
Toyota's proposal depicts an installation - a fictitious gearbox. As with a traditional manual gearbox system, such a system would include a classic gear lever in the vehicle cab, as well as a clutch pedal. His upbringing, on the other hand, would be everything from ordinary.
Toyota experts say that a car like this would be driven like any other with a manual transmission, the driver would be in charge of changing gears, but instead of responding to his commands by changing the gear ratio, all vehicle reactions would be - electronic and advance programming. Thus, by changing the virtual speeds, the driver would get the reaction from the electric drive as he would expect from a classic circuit.
The controller in charge of this system would recalculate the internal combustion engine's gear ratios and revolutions and imitate them with an electric motor.
To round out the experience, a virtual speed may be displayed on the control panel, alerting the driver when to "switch" speeds up or down. Toyota's patents describe numerous variants of this technology, with or without a clutch pedal and even without a gear lever, in which the electric drive system behaves and feels like an automatic transmission and a fossil-fuel-powered car.
