This Manual, Twin-Turbo MkIV Toyota Supra Is A $130,000 Dream
We know some of you might keep a beady eye on the prices of late-model MkIV Toyota Supras, especially manual and turbocharged ones, and wow, do we have some bad news for you.
CT user Jia the Supra Fanboy (because of course it was) pointed this one out to us. A 2002 car from the final months of the A80’s production life, it’s a right-hand drive import to Canada from Japan. It’s manual, there’s a twin-turbo 3.0-litre 2JZ-GTE under the bonnet and it’s completely standard. Commence heavy breathing.
It’s not quite at mythical unicorn status because of the 32,000km (20,000 miles) it’s covered, but that’s hardly a lot, is it? And anyway, with that kind of mileage, the value won’t drop through the floor if you actually drive it occasionally. That’s a big tick for us.
For sale with Rennsport Automobile in Vancouver, British Columbia – a lovely city that’s well worth a visit even if you’re not buying a Supra – the one thing that bugs us is the inexcusable lack of detail in the autotrader.ca listing. The images are low-quality and tiny, too.
Surely, when a vehicle this collectible and this rare finds its way to your showroom, you should be preparing a comprehensive advert so that someone could feel confident putting a deposit down over the phone even before seeing it. The other Matt has had a moan about it before.
We love the totally out-of-place retro cloth upholstery, though. The pattern looks like it’s been lifted from an early 1990s Peugeot 106 special edition; wonderful in its awfulness.
Anyway, that bad news we were talking about: this is for sale for 129,900 Canadian dollars (£75,000). The dream keeps slipping further away…
Hat tip to Jia!
Comments
Someone is inevitably going to buy it and rice it to hell.
Or keep it unused for the rest of eternity
Heck yea, keeper her stock and baby her.
Used 911 Turbo, or this.
I’m going with the 911
Meanwhile, in the U.K…..
It’s automatic
Idk…is the Uk a non petrolhead country? Cars like STI’s get sold on 16k, bmw’s with v10 do as well while on other parts of europe those reach the 30k mark…i never understood that,why?
I actually like the Euro-spec auto TT Supras. How much do you think it would cost to ship over here? haha
Oh so it did become an article! Thanks xD
Anyways, if I was spending $130,000 on a Supra myself, I would buy a nice 96+ JDM TT for around $40,000 and spend the rest building it nicely. This is definitely a nice collector’s piece though, someone will probably end up buying it for 110k or so.
Hmmm $130k for a 2002 Supra with amazing performance potential, or a 2002 C5 Z06 for about $25k with just as amazing potential? I like the Supra and all but even if i had the money i still wouldnt consider this one
Oh yeah lets buy 10 of them.. what my mum would say..
I remember when supras was around 3-4K for a non turbo
I guess supras now a days are not very popular. They even updated it and still no one will put 100 grand to by an old toyota!
Id rather just get a good second hand twin turbo with a manual trans because it would be in fairly good condition and only cost max around £30k.