With a limited-run Closing Version particular, the Toyota GR Supra is about to depart this earthly realm, almost six years after its debut on the Detroit Auto Present in early 2019.

It would not seem to be six years to me, regardless that Toyota has been speaking about constructing a brand new Supra since 2012, we noticed prototypes in 2018 and in September 2019 I drove a nonetheless disguised pre-production ‘A90’.

Possibly it is my age, nevertheless it nonetheless seems to be just like the Supra hasn’t arrived lengthy, and but with a particular 429bhp, it goes away.

Not that it was that straightforward to purchase one within the UK later in life anyway. This market obtained a small annual allocation of vehicles and the Supra was out and in of Toyota’s tariffs because of this.

The ultimate version is restricted to 300 examples worldwide, and it isn’t clear what number of the UK will get.

Nevertheless it does carry an enormous variety of adjustments: additional energy, adjustable KW dampers from a GT4 observe variant, new drilled brake discs, an Akrapovic exhaust, baffles within the sump to stop oil hunger, additional physique reinforcement, exterior dynamic add-ons and a few seats that look extremely uncomfortable. Appears like a correct circuit weapon.

However regardless that it appears (to me) just like the Supra has been round for no time in any respect, my perspective in direction of it has modified noticeably – fairly totally different from, say, how I really feel concerning the Alpine A110, which did not make a lot of a distinction. lifespan.

I liked the A110 at launch and nonetheless like it now. (Whereas the A110 nonetheless exists, its non-compliance with the EU’s Common Security Rules 2 means Alpine can promote not more than 1500 in Europe a yr. Why hasn’t the UK exempted itself from this? Why aren’t we marching in direction of parliament to demand extra A110s?)

In the meantime, the Supra is a automobile I believe I like extra now than when our highway take a look at in 2019 discovered “it left us wanting extra”.

It was one thing of a ‘not fairly’ automobile: not fairly an A110, not fairly a Porsche 718 Cayman. Good, however maybe the least satisfying of the group of vehicles that every one determined they may as properly all tackle the Porsche on the identical time.

As we speak, I am extra bought on the overall perspective of the Supra than ever. I do not need ‘extra’ than the common one, with a six-cylinder engine, an computerized transmission and no matter it got here with on the time.