The six-speed Supra was the best version of the A90 - it's now usefully cheaper, too
The six-speed Supra was the best version of the A90 - it's now usefully cheaper, tooWhile it may seem easy to say this with the Toyota Supra no longer on sale in the UK - we’ll live in hope for a GRMN -never seemed destined to sell in significant numbers. Partly that was because the eight-speed automatic was already such a good fit for the 3.0-litre turbo six; you’d have to be very committed to the manual cause to give up the more efficient gearbox.
Those that were die-hard self-shifters, moreover, might have been tempted by the GR86 that was launched at the same time. Manual gearboxes - front-engined, rear-drive coupes, in fact - don’t really come much better than the smaller GR Toyota. Add all that to the fact that Porsche offers a superb six-speed manual gearbox for its six-cylinder sports car and it’s easy to see why there aren’t many Supras with the red boot badge and 10-spoke wheels around.
; the obsessiveness over gearknob weighting made for a very satisfying shift, and a few suspension tweaks sharpened the driving experience as well, without detracting from its GT credentials. Toyota even offered the manual with standard, non-electric seats that dropped the hip point a little and reduced weight just a little bit more. It was a considered, thoughtful integration of a manual gearbox, not something cobbled together to satisfy demand.
That’s exactly how the GR Supra drove, too, the manual a cohesive part of the package rather than standing out for all the wrong reasons. It ensured a closer relationship with that fantastic straight-six, for starters, as happy lugging from low revs as chasing 7,000rpm. The ratios were more appropriate for a B road than the equivalent Cayman, and even with less than perfect steering it wasn’t hard to enjoy a front-engined, rear-drive coupe with lots of power and limited-slip diff.
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