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- I'd be willing to bet a whole case of ramen,
which is about two dollars and 34 cents in US dollars,
that only about five people have actually driven
their Mark Five Supra since they bought it.
Why might you make that claim, Alex?
Well, because every single one
seems to be getting wide-bodied or liberty walked right now.
Walked, I'm not entirely sure if that's
a adjective or a verb at this point,
but verbs are what you do.
Whatever.
It comes down that it's just a thing
that people are doing right now.
But when it comes down to legendary cars,
the Supra is it.
It's taking over Tik Tok and I'm not even sure
if that's a good thing.
It was in some of the most iconic movies,
it features the engine of all engines.
Its interior is designed like a cockpit.
And no matter how old you are,
how much money you have, you'll always break your neck
when you see this thing driving down the street,
because it's just like, you just gotta look at it,
you know, just like, how neat is that?
And it's pretty neat.
I'm Alex, Alex.FI in Instagram.
And today we're gonna be talking
about one of the best tuner cars
of tuner cars that are out there in the market right now,
probably today and forever, the Toyota Supra.
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Keep it going.
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So the Toyota Supra is like the godchild
of the Toyota Motor Corporation,
that began all the way back in 1978.
The car initially shared the name
with the Toyota Celica, which was a car
that my mom owned.
That's right, all the way up.
It's pretty cool.
She was neat, all right?
It was a black Coupe Toyota Celica with the sun roof.
Anyway, the roots of the car trace back
all the way to the iconic Toyota 2000 GT
with its engine layout, the styling of it,
and a driver-focused interior.
Because, in case you wanted to dream about owning
a Twin Turbo Manual Supra that's way out
of your price point, you could also just say,
"Let me just take that one step further,
in terms of unattainable dream cars,
and drool over 2000 GT.
But even taking it all the way back to 1978,
the first-gen Toyota Supra was based
on the Celica Liftback and doesn't have
a whole lot of love, you know?
Mostly because the Mark Four is
what really everybody cares about.
I hate to say it, but the Mark One did a good job
at getting Toyota into the sports car market,
that also had some luxury components,
like power windows and something called
(clears throat) sport suspension.
Wow.
The second generation Supra still carried
the Celica Supra name, but really started
to shape the sports car market for Toyota.
The second-gen A60 would feature
everything that is proper about an 80's Coupe car.
It had the inline-six engine.
Changed up the wheel base, put some lil' wider wheel on it,
had some fender flares, impact bumpers
that were hidden a little bit,
and pop-up headlights, because everybody knows
that that's what you need to do in the 80's.
It had, like, a 80's technology touch too,
like the digital readout of miles per gallon.
ETA to destination, not entirely sure how that worked,
and whole bunch of other neat (beep)
that probably looks absolutely terrible now.
But we don't wanna skip over these generations,
but the second generation is the one that,
again, people didn't love that much.
Now, it doesn't matter that it looks like
a one series BMW, nope!
It's all original, it doesn't matter.
But they were a fun car with only 160-ish horse power.
But didn't matter that they looked so good
in the like, the alpine white with the fender mirrors
and the lowering springs.
Nope.
No one seems to care about the first or second generation,
just like you don't really care
about the older brother or the middle son,
everybody always cares about the youngest,
because that's just what parents do.
(beep) holes.
But the second generation Supra
did fairly well throughout the world.
Toyota was getting this car everywhere
and it was doing it very very well,
considering how hard it was back in the day.
Now, doing so well that in 1986,
Toyota introduced the next generation Toyota Supra,
the one that people buy and then
tell everyone that they own a Supra,
and then pray nobody asks what generation it is.
Not that that's a bad thing,
but we do it, we all do it.
I get it, it's like, I understand, you know?
The Mark Three continued to get beefed up
in terms of performance, wheel base,
power, styling, speed, everything.
The car would receive the iconic 7M Dash GE motor,
which was not one, not two, oh you see how I did that?
Not three, (chuckles)
it's like a magic trick, but four valves per cylinder,
and dual overhead cams, they came with a turbo charger.
I mean, there was like an NA version,
which was pretty decent too,
but the Twin Turbo version was an absolute beast.
These cars really to get beefed up,
like really beefed up, they had three-channel ABS,
they had tams which allowed you to control damper rates.
They had ACIS for air compression,
and some other acronyms that will make me sound
extremely smart, but, honestly,
in the general terminology,
it just made the car better,
it made it a proper player in the sports car world,
that began to show that the Japanese car market
had a lot that they could play with,
and, as a success of the divisions began to grow,
they got what we would call more money.
And when they got more money,
they just kept making their cars
fantastically better than the competition.
It was offering its own model,
and the Celica Supra trim.
The car really began to be noticed
for its exceptional driving and build quality.
The Supra would actually start to enter
in this generation touring car championships,
and although it had a tough time in pro-racing,
it was the start that Toyota needed
to truly begin showing the world
that the car could be introduced
to the larger race-oriented market.
And then, it happened.
It happened, it happened.
It actually happened.
And I hate to say it, because it's cringey,
and it's rough and I hope that you have your headphones in,
'cause if you're in a college library
and you hear this said out loud,
it's gonna be uncomfortable, especially if you're a dude,
but I gotta say it, the daddy of the Toyota Supra
then came to life.
The one that everyone, if it was a person,
would probably call (clears throat) yeah.
The Mark Four generation Toyota Supra
came in and that's when the world realized,
that the Japanese automotive manufacturers
were making way too much (beep) money,
because the car was absolutely insane in every single way.
The Mark Four put away the RuneScape accounts
and decided to become an adult,
and just play tippy cup on Friday nights
and get (beep) up because that's what you do.
The days of being an underdog went away,
and Toyota held nothing back with this car.
When they were looking at the competition
between Mitsubishi, Nissan, Toyota came in swinging,
with a little bit of steroids,
the naturally-aspirated and turbo models
came to the US and just did so well.
It was such a good car, the turbo models
could go zero to 60 in four and half seconds.
They made the turbos sequentially,
so you could get boost at 1800 RPM,
and have nearly 300 foot pounds of torch, at the same time.
The manuals of the Mark Four Supra
would see the gee-trag, gir-trag,
gee-trag, gay-trag, G-E-T-R-A-G gear box,
because they're already dumping money
into their Supra, so why not just do it a little bit more?
Why not just throw just one of the best
transmissions you could throw in there at the time?
So Toyota made the car lighter,
faster, even though the weight distribution,
and, by all definitions, made that tuner car
a proper tuner car.
And the Toyota Supra checked all the boxes.
Sexy, yep, okay.
Fast, yep, okay.
Let's make sure that it's modifiable,
Yep.
Let's make sure it's bullet-proof,
yeah, we can do that.
Okay.
And then they paired it with a great transmission
and a fantastic suspension and it just killed it.
Until it died.
And then they introduced Mark Five.
So I always get a little bit confused
with the Mark Five that got introduced to the world,
because we can't tell if we're supposed
to love it or hate it.
But it's definitely a fun car
when you're starting to look at it
without any of the history of the Toyota Supra name.
It goes zero to 60 in 3.8 seconds,
it comes with an optional turbo three cylinder,
and it's speed automatic, it can run
a 12 second quarter mile.
The car itself has extremely little history
besides the fact that there was already
a recall and the whole world just exploded.
Besides the obvious note that it's brand new
and shares its bits and pieces with BMW,
it's pretty much just the next generation of the car.
Now, everyone is liberty walking them.
Everyone is trying to tune 'em
and then they throw 'em into a tree.
That's on IAA right now.
And trying to figure out if the Mark Five Supra
will actually hold up to the prestigious name
that the Mark Four Supra carried for so long.
And this is where a lot of manufacturers
can get in a little bit of trouble because, historically,
anytime they bring back a name like that,
they don't always do that well.
Now, we ain't about to talk about the history class
because last time I skipped a generation for a car,
I got personally attacked by Dakota
But we just wanted to share it all with you.
But you're here to know what it's like
to actually own one of these cars.
If you could just win the lottery perhaps, you know?
It's a good time to hope.
Christmas is coming.
So you want to own a Toyota Supra,
well, put down the slap chops and snag your 2JZ jokes,
because we're about to dive into it,
and everything that you would want.
The first and the second generation cars
are not common in the current scene
as much as they once were.
They're the cars that your mom or dad probably owned,
and mostly because, well, they are some old boys these days,
and not many find them are really actually that fun
when you compare it to others
that are out there right now for the same price.
Especially when you're looking at Toyota Celica,
compared to something like an RX7.
Now, the third generation is likely
where you'll find most Supra owners,
and it's for a really good reason.
The third generation has a fantastic platform,
it's got a killer community and a decent bank for buck
on the actual price of the car.
As long as you can snag the car
that is in relatively good condition,
you should be able to enjoy yourself
for years and years to come.
You'll have a Supra, you just won't have the Supra.
And that's the one thing that can kinda eat away at people
just a little bit if you're a little bit younger
and you really wanna own a Supra.
If you really wanna save up for the Mark Four,
our recommendation is just to hold out.
Now, most third-gen mods are pretty moderate.
They usually run Enkei RPF1's,
Toyo Proxes, Hankook Ventuses,
because the cars are actually driven pretty hard.
Tein Coilovers take the cake here as well,
because the price is decent and the options
are pretty limited for the older generations.
Now, jumping into the big boy.
The Keanu Reeves of Supra.
The Mark Four, okay?
The Mark Four is a car that carries a price tag
along with its Elon Muskiness love for the community.
The car can handle about everything.
The car can actually pretty much do no wrong.
It's like a single child in a rich family.
From single turbo swaps to 1500 horse power builds,
to show builds, to everything in between.
It's a car that looks pretty much perfect
in almost any type of setup.
But, depending on your bills, as we'll see
this generation car gets so polarizing for the community.
And you've probably seen the ones
that we're gonna talk about first.
You have those that go with the big horse power numbers.
Throwing some massively beefy drag radios,
and built specialties on the rear.
You know the look that I'm talking about,
because it's got the little boys in the back
and the big tires, and then it's almost like,
(blows) and it's ready to rock and roll.
But that's not the only look anymore,
because more and more people are actually
picking up non-turbo Supras.
And they're even picking up,
dare I say it?
Automatics.
The genre has opened up to people
building them more at the show setup
that also has a little bit of scoot-scoot.
But most people end up...
The most of them end up just trying to get the Twin Turbos
or getting a Twin Turbo automatic.
But those that are running more of a show setup,
you'll actually see them running
work Kiwamis, Aodhan AH02s,
or even Cosmis Racing XT-206Rs.
We used to see a lot of SSRs on these cars,
but not really that much anymore,
which is kind of interesting.
Now, with the Mark Five, the car
that I don't know if you're supposed to love,
but the Mark Five, nobody knows
what's gonna be on these cars.
And if it's R gas, it's probably gonna be some
wide-bodied Pandem kit with plenty of forged stars,
and air suspension because that is just what is going on.
Why make a car wider when you can make it even wider?
You know?
Why just have the car initially and just try it out,
when you could just wide body the hell out of it?
You know, that's just, that's the community.
The Toyota Supra is about one of the most
iconic cars in the industry.
From its introduction from over 40 years ago
to the iconic entrance of the Mark Four.
Even with its controversial introduction of the Mark Five,
and its collaboration with BMW,
it's pretty clear that the Supra's done quite well
in the aftermarket community.
And as one of the cars that's probably
one of the most popular out there
right next to the other legends,
like the Skyline and the NSX,
the Supra does carry a pretty massive name to it.
With aftermarket modifications coming out
for the newest generation and seeing YouTubers
like TJ Hunt, DDE and other YouTube channels
really starting to pick up these cars,
it's gonna be cool to see.
But unfortunately for you guys,
you're totally stuck with an E30
until a totaled one shows up,
and then maybe you can convince our boys
over at Branded Title to snag one for us
and then we'll build that next.
So what are your thoughts on the Toyota Supra?
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