By now, there’s a chance a lot of you fans are sick of hearing Toyota Supra news. Unfortunately for those of you who are tired of it, it’s not going to stop any time soon. The Supra and the BMW are forever linked, due to their joint development. Under the Supra’s skin, it’s essentially a BMW Z4 M40i, so its DNA is more Bavarian than Japanese. Yet, it does have its own unique tuning, as we’ve seen in videos where it took on its Z4 twin. But how about when it goes up against a proper M Division product?
In this new video from Cars.co.za, the Toyota Supra takes on the BMW M2 Competition. This isn’t an entirely new test idea, to be honest, as we’ve seen some before. However, this one pits the two against each other, on track, with a proper racing driver behind the wheel of both. So we get to see which car is actually faster in a fair and objective manner.
First up is the BMW M2 Comp, with its 3.0 liter twin-turbocharged I6 engine (S55) which makes 405 hp and 406 lb-ft of torque. In this test, all of that fury is sent to a seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox. On the track, with former racing driver Ashley Oldfield at the helm, it recorded a 1:29.00 one-lap time.
Next up is the Toyota Supra. It also uses a 3.0 liter inline-six engine (B58) but it only has one turbocharger, 355 hp and 369 lb-ft of torque. So it’s down on power quite a bit. It also only has a torque-converter eight-speed auto, rather than a rapid-fire DCT. In its favor, though, is significantly less weight, a lower center of gravity and a chassis that was built from the ground up to be a sports car, whereas the M2 starts life as a normal everyday coupe.
So which one is fastest? We won’t spoil that for you, as you should watch the video. But it’s certainly interesting and the winner isn’t necessarily the better car. Check it out.
Hi! Just wanted to say that I like my videos getting “spoiled”, as I usually read text and do not watch the videos. When I read an article like this, I actually feel as if my time was wasted; why not just link the video and be done with it if you don’t want to “spoil” it? I read the whole text and felt empty inside afterwards. This is the only site I visit that does this.
As a more constructive note, I suggest you link the video, “spoil” it and offer your analysis. That way those that want to watch a 10 minutes video can and those that prefer to just read your insight at least get something of value.
I can appreciate what you’re saying but if I give away the results of their video, what’s the point in watching their video? And that’s a bit uncool to do to a fellow publication. We’re not trying to steal another pubs content, especially content that they work really hard on.
I also understand where you are coming from. I didn’t read any study about it but I am fairly certain that there are two types of people: those that watch videos online and those that don’t. Recently a blogger I follow did a breakdown of his viewing statistics and said that his videos are watched by a completely different audience from those that read his blog entries. I’m one of the latter.
I think that a part of your audience will watch the video, no matter what, and that another part will not watch it, not matter what. My point is that by just being an introduction to a video we have to watch, your blog entry is frustrating to a viewer like me and that I don’t think that someone who would watch the video anyway would be stopped by knowing how the video ends. For that small part of your audience who would want to go blind, just clicking on the video and watching it without bothering with the text would is probably what they’d do anyway.
Those are just my humble thoughts. But I’m sure I’m not alone to feel like this.
Thanks, appreciate the feedback. We’ll see what’s the best approach in the future
No problem. I comment because I care :-) Keep up the good work.
Thank you! Glad to see we have committed readers :)
Perhaps put a Spoiler sentence with the black bar or spoiler tag?
https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/i2mg6/attention_we_now_have_a_new_spoilertagging_system/