The Toyota Supra is now available with three pedals: we drive it on track 🏁
, the new Supra manual means all three Gazoo Racing performance cars can now be had with DIY gears.
We’ll update our Toyota Supra review once we’ve driven the manual on UK roads; this may take a while, since the three-pedal car is not due to arrive until the winter, possibly spilling into early 2023.Which is better: the four-cylinder Supra 2.0 or the 3.0 six? In reality, that’s plenty enough. As you’d guess from the performance claims , it’s pretty quick and the lighter, dartier mass shaved by 100 kilos helps the handling. It’s not quite the same sonically, and we miss the multi-pot thrum from the straight six. Read on to see what we make of the regular Supra.Isn’t the Supra basically a BMW Z4 with a different body?
According to Toyota’s side of the story, once the components had been chosen – the majority of which are sourced from BMW, including some suspension components from the BMW M3 – the two companies developed the two cars entirely separately. They were styled in separate studios and there was no overlap between the development – Toyota says its engineers didn’t even drive the Z4 prototypes, and vice versa.
The steering isn’t full of feel but is fast and incisive, and what it might lack in the finer degrees of feedback you can read through the chassis instead. The Supra’s balance and neutrality is one of its standout features and there’s plenty of front-end grip to lean on. ‘Iundersteer,’ chief test driver Daenens told us, and it shows – you’d have to be quite heavy handed to make the Supra’s front end wash wide in ordinary driving conditions.
There are further downsides. Spaces to put things in the interior are few and far between, the door pockets are tiny and the shallow stowage tray ahead of the gear selector has a habit of losing its contents on twisty roads. As per the Z4, however, there are two handily big cupholders in the centre armrest which can be used as bric-a-brac containers.
I recall the BMW Z4 was quite tail-happy in its sportiest driving modes but the Supra feels more planted, yet also more malleable towards the limit. UK pricing has swollen somewhat since launch: blame the pandemic, wildly oscillating costs and the general cost of living crisis. A Supra 2.0 Pro starts at £49,495, the cheapest 3.0 manual from £53,495.Is the Toyota Supra the Cayman-beater Toyota set out to create? On gut feel, not quite. While the Toyota’s balance and handling are top drawer, instinct says the Cayman is still another step ahead dynamically.
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