When is the V6 going to be discontinued???

[Porter]

A lot of speculation in this, and other threads. If Lotus wants to continue with the 2GR-FE, then it's perfectly reasonable for Toyota to agree to build it for them. That's between the two companies. There's no specified or constrained manufacturing duration for an engine, in abstract. Toyota discontinuing the manufacturing of cars that happen to use that engine under their own brand is absolutely irrelevant to their manufacturing agreements as an industrial producer of engines.

Toyota is still producing new engines for the J70 series Land Cruiser for God's sake, from back in the 1980s, that are being put into brand new 70 series clones in Africa. There are absolutely no functional limitations on what they are able to produce or agree to with other companies for a supplier relationship.

That being said, if Lotus wanted to comply with newer/future emissions and fuel economy regulations in certain markets, it would make sense for them to move to a newer variant of the engine from Toyota, but for whatever reason they haven't chosen to do that. Likely just development time/cost. That's their prerogative.

Can we please put to bed the rumor that Toyota will be "pulling the rug" on engine supply for the Emira? It's simply not true.

 

[Speedy Emira]

A lot of speculation in this, and other threads. If Lotus wants to continue with the 2GR-FE, then it's perfectly reasonable for Toyota to agree to build it for them. That's between the two companies. There's no specified or constrained manufacturing duration for an engine, in abstract. Toyota discontinuing the manufacturing of cars that happen to use that engine under their own brand is absolutely irrelevant to their manufacturing agreements as an industrial producer of engines.

Toyota is still producing new engines for the J70 series Land Cruiser for God's sake, from back in the 1980s, that are being put into brand new 70 series clones in Africa. There are absolutely no functional limitations on what they are able to produce or agree to with other companies for a supplier relationship.

That being said, if Lotus wanted to comply with newer/future emissions and fuel economy regulations in certain markets, it would make sense for them to move to a newer variant of the engine from Toyota, but for whatever reason they haven't chosen to do that. Likely just development time/cost. That's their prerogative.

Can we please put to bed the rumor that Toyota will be "pulling the rug" on engine supply for the Emira? It's simply not true.

I’m sure it’s not going to end yet but we all know the V6 will stop first due to emissions. I can’t see Lotus investing into a newer V6 in the hopes it can meet future emissions when they can keep going with the Merc engine for a few more years.
I totally agree there will be engines and spares for decades after so no problem either way. Toyota are a business so even if they decide not to bother manufacturing I’m sure they will sell the the rights and tooling, a bit like the air cooled VW made in South America.