Here's Why This Toyota is the Best BMW Ever Made

now people always wondering how things work in cars i'm gonna explain how the technology works in this 2020 toyota supra beautiful looking car and as i said before when you look inside you can see this is german technology well actually austrian technology it's a different country these things are made in austria same place that they make the mercedes g wagon the magnus stair corporation now to make this little roadster go it has some very interesting technology the most interesting is the speed mode that this thing has as you go inside there's a button here and it says sport when you push the button the dash says sport it is now in sport mode now i know a lot of people think oh buttons what do they do with just some scam to make you think it's going faster well in this case the sport mode actually does quite a few things and the first thing you're gonna notice with the sport mode is sound so first i turn it off now it's in non-sport mode you can hear the sound when i rev it up and now we're going to turn the sport mode on you can see it's a sport certainly notice the difference what's doing it well i'll show you under the car as we go under the car you can see in a bag of muffler here there's a little valve it opens and closes that valve now here in texas there's no decibel limits you can't make outrageous noises there's a law that's just a general law some states have decibel limits check this thing with a decimal meter it's not particularly high but what it's doing is it's opening that valve up you're getting more flow and give it a little bit more power now when i was younger guys muffler deletes they cheat they'd have a valve on the exhaust and they'd have a cable when they pulled the cable like a choke cable it opened up so you had no muffler and it was straight exhaust loud as can be which is illegal this isn't straight exhaust it's just modifying turn that switch off goes back to normal hot that's part of the sport package changes the exhaust a little but that's not all it does pushing the sport button effects under the hood too changes the computer settings you get a sharper throttle response computers can do magical things you get more acceleration of course you're going to get worse gas mileage you don't have to run at sports mode all the time but when you do you get more power and it's going to use more gas of course and it also makes quicker shifts it affects the transmission to give you more acceleration and at the same time it also tightens up the suspension system which is also electronically controlled so it can handle the extra power and speed of course yeah it's going to ride a little bit rougher this is a two-seat roadster it's going to tighten all that up you'll feel the bumps more but you'll have better handling it's an active differential electric control and clutches to control the power to each wheel that controls the lateral torque when you're cornering so you have better stability think of it as positraction on steroids when gm came up with that ages ago the position so they could get their muscle cars to really zoom around without just spinning and not being control this is that on steroids with electric motors multi-plate clutches all controlled by computers to keep the lateral torque just where you want it in the case of the supra that sports button isn't just for show believe me i tried it out the thing handles flies it's really a joy to drive and yes it's extremely high-tech german technology we'll see how long it lasts in the long run it's a brand new car here it sure is fun to drive now speaking of german technology this is a straight six bmw engine it puts out 320 something horsepower so it's got a lot of power but the bmw version of this which is the z4 puts out 380 something horsepower now why is that the case the bmw z4 it has the same exact engine has the same transmission why does it have a lot of horsepower the bmw straight six engine which is the same engine two turbochargers on it it's a straight six engine but it has two turbochargers on it so it puts out more horsepower and the 2021 supra is gonna have the twin turbos on it if you want they didn't offer it in 2020 only in the bmw's do you do that now the bmw z4 is a convertible this is a hard top convertibles always weigh more the way they build them and of course the bmw convertible is one of those metal convertible tops so it's heavier it's heavier than this hood so even though the bmw z4 has more horsepower this weighs less and it's relatively close this is like two tenths of a second slower zero to 60 than the convertible is with all that extra horsepower but one of these things you'd have to decide do i want to lose two tenths of a second zero to 60 and have one turbocharger or do i want to go whole hog and gain that two tenths of a second zero to sixty by having the complexity of two turbochargers on the same engine all i have to say is i work on bmws i've been a mechanic for 52 years i had to change the dual turbos on a bmw they do have a tendency of wearing out faster you got two of them there's more strain and that was like a twelve thousand dollar job they're not cheap to work out so maybe it's a smart idea to only have one turbo charger and not throwing two on it's not the fastest thing out there by any stretch of imagination the bmw which is a little faster than this goes zero to 60 in 3.8 seconds the 2020 corvette goes zero to 60 in 2.8 seconds so you're not going to be beating them in a drag race no matter how big you put an engine in this this is a two-seat roadster for having a lot of fun in now for safety reasons whatever these are electronically limited to go 155 miles an hour take the corvette it isn't it'll go 194 miles an hour so if you're going to the racetrack you're not going to be able to keep up with one of those things this is really a lot of fun and really come on now in the real world you're not supposed to go over the speed limit which the top in texas here is 80 miles an hour when you drive out to el paso if you're race tracking it's a different ball game other technologies you have you might be interested in well you're probably really interested in the transmission yes it is an automatic transmission but just like the car that's built in austria so it's a transmission it is a zf8 hp which stands for eight high performance they use these in a lot of vehicles they're fascinating transmissions this isn't some exotic one-off job that they make a few of for example in 2017 the zf company in austria sold 3.1 million of these zf 8-speed transmissions that is a lot and it isn't one of those exotic dual clutch transmissions where it's actually a manual transmission with two clutches but the computer pushes the clutches and shifts them this is a traditional automatic transmission it does have a torque converter and it's got eight speeds they seem to perfected these things i was totally impressed by how this thing went if you wanted to go in normal mode you couldn't even feel the thing shift gears because there's eight of them they're closer together when you put it in sport mode it took off like mad but even then the shifts were extremely smooth it wasn't some er it was smooth they are well-built transmissions and yes it's german or i should say austrian technology they are extremely complex they cost a king's ransom to repair when they finally do break down but they are not notorious for breaking down until they get a lot of miles on them we'll take it for a spin and i'll show you now here's normal non-sport mode you can feel it shift well you can't really look at that unbelievably smooth there we go it's in sport mode and away we go [Music] you can hear and feel the power and with the suspension tighten up man this thing handles like a dream it just goes and handles no problem controlling it whatsoever and yeah you're gonna feel the bumps it's a roadster realize i'm doing all this with one hand on the steering wheel total control no hands it is one stable vehicle now you can tell i was driving it hard because those cooling fans are a running you see the cars turned off yet the fans are still running if you have a car that isn't designed right and you beat it hard and turn it off the residual heat will cause problems with the engine this is gonna run those fans until it gets an acceptable range then they turn themselves off this is really a technological marvel there's no arguing that and now you can understand some of the technology behind this toyota supra you're looking for a screaming fast roadster and you've got a few spare chains in your pocket you want to shell out for one of these things the technology is there if that's what you're looking for and here's some bonus questions and answers random person says hello scotty i got an 09 hyundai exon i think it might have a short my driver's side headlamp is dim and sometimes the driver's side blinker doesn't work suggestions yeah go to that side and check the ground wires the ground wires ground both the headlights and the blinkers and both of them are acting up odds are the ground wire has gone bad realize you need power and ground in a 12 volt system you got to have 12 volt positive but you also have 12 volt negative or if you don't have a complete circuit nothing's going to work and if the ground is getting weak things will get dim and won't work right odds are you just have a bad ground wire go there check the black ground wire a lot of times you'll see where it plugs into the body take it off get some memory paper make it shiny new metal bolt it back on so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that bell you

Channel: Scotty Kilmer

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Length: 10min 20sec (620 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 05 2020