With the rev counter large and central, the speedo secondary to it on the left yet positioned perfectly so that the day-glo needle on crisp, white-over-black font is instantly visible at a glance, things are concise and clear. Those dials are another matter altogether. With rotary dials, rocker switches and push buttons to spare, it’s certainly function over form. While some minimalist modern dashboards would actually benefit from a few more dials and buttons, the Supra’s is a great example of how the random ‘give it another switch’ approach taken by Toyota in the ‘90s was also rather misguided. Slide into the Mk4 Supra, which requires more of a bum-shuffle and drop than you might expect thanks to the low-set seat, and you’re greeted with a stack of buttons to the left of the wheel. In fact, they’re not typically a strong point even now, but more on that with the new GR Supra we’ll come to. Let’s face it, interiors weren’t the strong point with most Japanese cars back in the ‘90s. Hold on tight as we run another Retro Rewind… Mk4 Toyota Supra 3.0 Bi-Turbo

Nice, standard Ferrari F355s of the same vintage are as common as weeds by comparison, so we hardly needed more reason to get it together with its modern successor, the Toyota GR Supra. This sort of untouched, Supra Bi-Turbo complete with the rare manual gearbox is almost unheard of today.

Not so in the case of this factory standard, Storm Blue, low mileage, UK example. The ‘JZ’ straight-six engine is famous for happily taking comical amounts of power from countless tuning modifications, and the people who bought them often did just that.

To purists, though, it’s finding a Supra that hasn’t been modified that’s the holy grail. Less than 600 examples found homes in the UK, and it was axed in 1996 – four years before a rather lurid, heavily modified, hazard orange Supra hit the big screen and, famously, the ten second quarter mile. Yet, for all its big-winged bravado and ‘affordable Ferrari’ appeal, the Supra was still an expensive prospect and it never sold in any great numbers.

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