Man, what mad imaginations petrol heads worldwide will have when they hear of this news. Surely this is one of the biggest hints for the resurrection of the legendary Toyota Supra. Last month Toyota has filed, or should I say re-filed, the US Patent and Trademark Office for the ‘Supra’ name on the 16^th of July 2010. The trademark previously expired in 2006, and yeah the company hasn’t done a fart about it till now. Unbelievable, right?

Adding to that, Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda told journalists in Japan, four days before, that he wants “to see the next Supra tested in the near future” but later went on to say “even if one president [Toyoda himself] says that we want to have a Supra again, the whole company is not going to be responding to that request.”

The trademark system is designed around its use and a company is said to have three years to use the name until it’s considered abandoned. As we already know, Toyota hasn’t given the FT-86 concept its official name, thus there is an already available model to take on the legendary moniker, although the new FR-86 seems more like a new Toyota Celica than a fire-breathing twin-turbocharged Supra. There’s also the FR-S trademarked under Toyota too, so it seemed that Toyota might be spilling some sweet hybrid coupes coming up sooner than we might have thought.

Only time will tell but if Mr Toyoda’s words are anything to go on, we could see a Supra very soon, if the board decides it is financially viable, since they already pulled out their F1 team the budget sure is sustainable. If Toyota decided to give the Supra one more breath, the nearest concept would be the FT-HS concept car. Of kush, not that radical, but the FT-HS do have a similar styling shared with the FT-86, so Toyota might just mutate it with massive hybrid V6 drivetrain!

SOURCE Paultan