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One of just 623 British-supplied Supras • Pleasingly original and unmodified example • Just six former keepers with previous ownership from 2014 to 2023 • Entered from the Fox Collection Overseen by Isao Tsuzuki, work on the fourth-generation (A80) Toyota Supra began in February, 1989.

Débuting at the Chicago Motor Show some four years later, the resultant two-plus-two Coupé was a technological tour de force.

Engaged in something of an ‘arms race’ with its fellow Japanese manufacturers and similarly keen to challenge the established European sports car hierarchy, Toyota created a machine which, in its ultimate twin-turbocharged guise, was very special indeed.

The heart of the forced induction A80 was the mighty ‘2JZ-GTE’ straight-six DOHC 3.0-litre engine boasting a ‘closed deck’ cylinder block, forged steel crankshaft and three-layer steel cylinder head gasket, all of which meant that it was completely unstressed when developing 326bhp and 325lb. ft. of torque in European specif...