The result of the collaboration between BMW and Toyota would be an electric sports car

A few days ago we told you about how BMW pushed GM aside and extended a hand to Toyota, expanding their strategic and technological collaboration, with a view to manufacturing hybrid, electric or fuel-cell vehicles. More has come to light about this collaboration, which will bring us not only environmentally friendly cars, but also sports cars.

After the CEO of BMW, Norbert Reithofer and Akio Toyoda met to sign the agreement in Munich, talk has begun of multiple possibilities that could result from this union of manufacturers. The first is that Toyota would have among its plans the production of the successor to the Supra, using BMW’s technology, while the second is that BMW would allow Toyota to use the Series 6 platform for this model.

Unlike the collaboration between Toyota and Subaru for the GT-86 and the BRZ, on this occasion the models derived from the BMW-Toyota agreement will not be similar, but each will have its own characteristics, although the technology would be practically the same. Continuing with the theme of possibilities, another new potential path opens up: this alliance could also be taken advantage of by Lexus to bring to life the LF-LC concept; “anything is possible,” Reithofer reportedly said on the matter.

Interestingly, this agreement could also be the escape valve through which an electric sports car with BMW technology could emerge, based on the i8. If we recently told you that the i electric series had been abandoned, we can now tell you that Toyota would help make at least the i8 a reality, alongside the corresponding model with the same technology from the Japanese. As the CEO of BMW himself has said, and we repeat it, anything is possible, so we will have to wait and see how this agreement takes shape and what these two manufacturers have in store for the coming months.

Source | Automotive News