Leaving aside the BMW controversy, you’ve got to admit it looks good on paper. The body is more rigid than the Lexus LFA's, weight distribution is 50:50. Only two seats inside, hatchback boot at the rear. Nerdy, huh? Back to the headlines please. GR also tried three different weights of gearknob before settling on a 200-gramme item for the most satisfying shift quality.

The manual required Toyota to rejumble the centre console layout a little and head to ZF with a gearbox shopping list to cobble together a new transmission from various bits which could handle the lusty engine's torque. However, Toyota says it's bowed to public demand and as of mid-2022, there's finally a manual gearbox which costs £2,000 less. This was originally sent to the rear wheels via an eight-speed automatic transmission only, with 0-60mph taking 4.3 seconds.

The one we saw at Clark, however, was definitely the 3.0L mill.Under the bonnet sits BMW’s B58 single turbo 3.0-litre straight six, retuned by Toyota, but still developing identical power figures (335bhp and 369lb ft of torque) to the Z4 M40i. In short, everyone else except the US market gets the entire engine lineup, us included, by the looks of it. All engines will be mated to an eight-speed automatic transmission, and there's no manual variant available. They don’t get the 2.0L turbocharged inline four cylinder with two states of tune, one that makes 194 hp and 320 Nm of torque, and another producing 254 hp and 400 Nm of torque depending on the variant. You see, the US market Toyota Supras only come with the more powerful BMW produced 3.0L turbocharged inline six cylinder, good for 335 hp and 500 Nm of torque. What does this mean? Well, from what we’ve dug up, it means that there’s a chance that we could be getting two engine options in the Philippines. The Toyota Supra revealed at Clark also had some interesting rear badging the presence of the Toyota logo at the top of the newer generation Supra font indicates that the unit is not for sale in the US market. In fact, the two cars share a lot in common, which we’ll be talking about very soon. First of all, the A90 Toyota Supra shown off here is made in Austria, alongside its platform-mate, the 2019 BMW Z4.

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