- Hey guys. What's goin' on?
It's Al from Fitment Industries.
And I am here with...
- Eric Robi from RevMatch TV.
- And he has a Toyota Supra.
And we're at the Konig booth.
This is SEMA 2019 and we thought we would come bug you,
to ask you some questions on the very exciting,
very, somewhat controversial little Toyota Supra.
And a little bit of what's going on,
what you've done to the car.
Because, this is the only Toyota Supra
I think I've seen, at SEMA, that is not wide-bodied
in any particular direction.
- Right, I mean, (laughing)
- it has been a controversial car,
obviously - (laughing) yeah.
- And, you know, the wide-bodied thing,
I was just reading a post right now on Facebook,
and somebody was, made a video criticizing
all the wide-bodies and how all of the Supras
are the same at SEMA.
- [Al] Yeah.
- And I've got some thoughts about that.
- Okay, okay.
So, you have, you have a brand new...
Can you tell me a little bit about your Supra?
- Absolutely.
So, this is a very basic build.
And that's sort of my philosophy about cars.
I got this car just a month ago.
So, I've only had three weeks to build it
because I drove it all the way across the country.
From Iowa down to southern California in a couple days
because I wanted to get this car.
It has to be nitro yellow.
That's important because it has to match the shirt.
- Okay, all right. - Number one, ya know?
- Yeah - And also,
I wanted to pay MSRP.
That's super important too.
So, you know. - Oof, yeah.
- It's a great basic build.
No body kit on it.
And my focus really is on performance and function.
I got to the track. - [Al] Okay.
- I like to do track days.
I race in 24 Hours of LeMons.
I've done a lot of, sort of, ya know, amateur competition
type stuff. - Okay.
- My build is really focused on...
Less on power and going in a straight line.
And more on how the car is going to handle.
- A little bit of driving experience.
If you will. - Yeah.
- So, what do you have done to the car?
Tell me that.
- Right now we've got a couple of basic things.
We got suspension by Feal.
Feal is a company based in Wrightwood, southern California.
Run by Odi Bakchis.
I think I got the pronunciation right.
Sorry Odi, if I got it wrong.
He is a pro Formula D driver.
He just came in third overall for the season in Formula D.
- [Al] Nice.
- And so, obviously very, very good with suspension.
It is a coilover kit.
- Okay.
- It has swift springs, 14k in the front, 8k in the back.
It's a little bit lowered.
It's a full adjustable kit and it's a little bit lowered.
And right now I just got it here.
Just sort of dialing it in.
So, it's not quite perfect but it's pretty good.
I'm taking it to the track and I'm also driving it
on the streets.
So, I want something that's a good compromise
that's not going to be super harsh.
- Sure.
- But also, it's fully adjustable.
- And then, you have the new Konigs on there.
Right? - I do.
- So, these are the...
What size are the Konigs?
- So these are the 18x9.5 front.
They're the Hypergram.
- [Al] Sure.
- And what's nice about these
is they have the polished lip on them.
So, this is like, a new finish
for this year - Yeah.
- And the dark gray metallic spokes.
- Yep, very cool.
So you guys don't know, Konig has the free form.
We talked about it a million times, but it's a rotary forge
to be able to faceless cast, barrierless forge,
helps make the wheel lighter.
And of course, Konig has like locked in
in terms of their price point,
and what you can get and the sizing you can get for it,
and the wheels look real good.
Konig is always been about the sport compact scene,
so it's cool to see it.
And then, you have a large carbon fiber wang,
with an A, not an I, on the back,
and you like that.
Is that?
- Now, who doesn't like a big wang?
- No, no, well?
- (laughs) - When you say it like that?
It's a little controversial, but it's okay.
It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.
- (laughs)
- So, let's talk a little bit.
I just have a couple questions.
Do you, I remember when we first knew that your car
was going to be here, we talked a little bit about,
that you have some opinions on
people that don't like the Toyota Supra.
Now, I have never driven Toyota Supra.
I know that the interior bits are from BMW.
I know that the motor bits are from BMW.
The design was a collaboration between Toyota and BMW,
but dominantly Toyota.
Is it as bad as what people say?
Are people making stuff up?
Are they not making stuff up?
Like, tell me the truth.
- So, I like the way it drives,
I'll just put it out there.
It's really fun to drive,
it's a really engaging car.
Yeah, it's got an automatic transmission,
but you know so do a lot of things.
- And that's an 8spd DCT, right,
or is that a 7?
- It's an 8spd automatic
with a ZF8HP. - Okay.
- It's a very well tuned
Transmission - Yeah.
- And it's also one of the most popular transmissions
on the planet.
It can handle a lot of torque,
and knowing that people are going to be tuning the cars,
I think that's pretty important.
- Yeah, so this goes a quarter mile in like 12 1/2 seconds,
or something ridiculous like that,
so it is a quick car.
Even in a straight line,
which it's not really looks like it's built to do,
it goes pretty fast!
- It's pretty quick.
- So, why do you think?
Why do you think people don't like it?
- People don't like it because there is a lot of,
you know purists that really like the A80,
the previous generation of Supra,
which was one right over there.
- Yeah.
- They don't really care about the other Supras,
they don't care about the A60 or A70,
they only cre about the A80.
- No. Yeah, we've talked about this before.
(laughs)
- You know, so these are the purists are the people who
love the internet, they love memes,
half of them probably don't drive,
I'm going to put that out there.
- Yeah.
- And so people don't like that it's a collaboration,
and that's the main thing. - Sure.
Well, you have to take a look at that too,
because Acura, when they did the NSX,
they developed that whole thing all by themselves,
and that did not do very well for them.
If you remember how expensive the car was.
The fact that it was way over in left field,
in terms of like what it was about.
And then you had,
what was another car that just came out, that we had?
There was another cross-collaborative car.
- Oh, there was the 86, obviously.
The BRZ86 - Yeah.
- Collaboration. - Yeah, but you have to
remember that the success of that car was
completely dependent on those two forces
coming together to make a car.
And now, people love it.
- Right. - So, the question is
is do you think the same thing is going to happen
with the Supra that happened with the FRS and BRZ?
'Cause you have to remember the FRS and BRZ came out,
it was the same exact situation.
They hated it because it was only 200hp,
it was a joint collaboration.
It was a scion, which was apparently a terrible thing.
And now, everybody love them.
- Right.
- Do you think the same thing's going to happen?
- I do, I mean I'm a believer in the car.
I didn't buy then car because I thought it was
going to flop,
you know I didn't think it was going to be another NSX.
The community, you know I've been posting on YouTube
a lot about this car.
I've been following this car since before it was built.
Since it was announced, - Yeah.
- Basically, I've got like 30 or 40 videos before,
you know I got the car.
And, I've been sort of following the opinion
of the car, over time.
It was very, very negative at first.
I was looking at the comments,
probably 50% negative comments, or more.
And then now, as the car got released,
the comments from my channel and the other channels,
pretty positive. - Yeah.
- Yeah, it was always the naysayer in there,
like ooh it's a BMW.
Like yeah, it's a BMW. You know and it drives like a BMW.
I don't think it's a bad thing.
BMW has a really refined sort of driving style,
it drives really nicely.
It turns in real nice.
It has a very short wheel base.
It's a really engaging, fun car to drive,
and yeah it drives like a BMW,
and I think that's a good thing.
- So, what do you think, in your opinion,
you got to tell me, what is your favorite thing
about the new NA and what is
the thing that you like the least?
What is the thing that you hate the most about the car?
- Gosh. - There's not that many people
out there that have this skill yet,
I mean besides obviously of your big influencers,
and stuff like that, but there's not actually
a lot of people who've really given their take on this car.
That are normal people.
- Yeah, so I've driven this car 3800 miles,
in a month or something like that,
so I've got a lot of miles on it.
I guess the number one thing that I like about it,
sort of hard to pick one,
but I really do like the styling a lot.
It's really run on me,
and I really like how fun it is to drive.
It's really engaging!
That's the number one thing to me, when you get a car.
It's got to be engaging.
- Yeah. - And the other thing,
what do I like the least?
What do you not like, what do you not like?
There's got to be something.
- What do I like the least? - There's got to be something.
- It doesn't have a lot of cargo space.
I knew that going in.
(chuckles) - You've got the wrong car
for cargo space, it's the wrong one.
- I knew that going in,
it's not going to have a lot of cargo space.
Oh, yes the stereo.
This is the premium JBL upgraded stereo,
it's not very good.
- No?
- It's not that great,
it's rattly subwoofers, kind of boomy.
- Time to change that around a bit?
- Yeah, not that good.
- So, if you could say one thing to anybody out there
that's talked about a Toyota Supra,
that's talked great about it,
or talked poorly about it,
somebody that's been wanting to buy one,
or somebody that might be buying one,
what is the one piece of advice that you would give
somebody on the new Toyota Supra?
- If you're on the fence about the car,
I would say go find somebody that's got one and drive it.
That's the most important thing.
You've got to enjoy driving the car, at the end of the day.
It can look good, it can go fast,
but it's got to be fun.
- Yeah?
- It's got to be fun. - Absolutely.
- You know, so if you don't like the way a BMW drives,
you're not going to like the car.
- Yeah, that's true.
- Bottom line, if you like the way a BMW drives,
or you haven't driven one before,
probably going to like it.
- Very cool.
Well, in case you guys are wondering there's going to be
landing pages specifically for the new Toyota Supra
because everybody and their mother,
it seems has told us we need to get stuff for the new Supra.
Because, apparently people are actually buying the car
and there's one in front of me,
which means it has to be true.
So if you guys actually want to know,
Konig has developed their fitment for the Supra,
there's going to be suspension companies coming out
with Supra specific fitment,
and all that sort of good stuff.
And tires are tires,
so there's not going to be anything too special about that,
but if you guys are looking to pick one up,
or you have picked one up,
and you're looking to get your wheels, tires and suspension,
fitmentindustries.com, because there's the plug,
and I bet you didn't see that coming.
And, of course I'm Alex from Fitment Industries.
Thank you so much for joining.
Anything you'd like to say?
- Hey, thanks for watching.
I'm Eric, REVMATCHTV. Thanks for...
- Go check him out if you like this car, all right?
It's a fun time, it's a really great time.
And they're not that bad.
Stop being so mean on the internet, okay?
They're actually very nice.
Thank you so much. - Thank you.
- All right. - Appreciate it.
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