Andrew Chesterton
Contributing Journalist
19 Sep 2018
8 min read

Like most car-loving kids of the 1990s, my bedroom walls were adorned with dog-eared posters of Lamborghinis and Ferraris and all other kinds of expensive exotica. But right in the centre, taking pride of place, was a picture of the twin-turbocharged A80 Toyota Supra.

This bargain-basement sports car represented the pinnacle of everything that was fantastic about Japanese performance at the time. Here was a Ferrari-bothering screamer for a fraction of the price of something truly exotic.

That fire-breathing Supra was killed off in 2002, replaced by an endless procession of Corollas and Camrys, with Toyota’s performance aspirations having driven off a cliff (presumably locked in the trunk of a hybrid Prius). 

Read the full Toyota Supra 2019 review.