Toyota and BMW to make a sports car together

Two days ago the heads of Toyota and BMW signed a deal to intensify their cooperation. The signed deal included joint operations in the development of electric fuel cells, research  in powertrain electrification and the sharing of lightweight technologies. Oh, and there was one other small thing too, no, scrap "small", in fact, replace it with "monumental". According to the signed deal Toyota and BMW are going to build a sports car together.


The agreement states that BMW and Toyota are going to jointly develop architectures and share parts-bins for a future sports vehicle. In simple English; design, and build a sports car together.

At a press conference with BMW head Norbert Reithofer Toyota president Akio Toyoda said "BMW knows how to make a car perform, I am the one who is most looking forward to a sports car that is environmentally friendly" and that's what it's going to be. A sports car that'll manhandle everything but polar bears.

By signing the deal Toyota got access to BMW's rock solid knowledge of how to make a car go very fast, and in return BMW got access to Toyota's expertise in buzzing noises, namely, electric motors. A match made in future-sports-car-heaven, so to say.

It's pretty clear now that Toyota's on a mission to get their sporting-image back, and they've already won the first battle. The Subaru-collaboration BRZ/GT86/Whatever you want to call it was divine, and we'll hopefully see something equally epic spawn from this venture too. The picture of the Avensis is slowly dimming in my head...

Toyota's first victory

We'll keep you informed on the subject as more details come along, but for now this is the bulk of it. Let the speculation begin!

What kind of sports car would you like to see those two companies build together? Share your thoughts in the comments-section below.

-HS