Toyota Supra Drift Car Delivers Astounding Goodwood Performance
Piloted by Nobuteru Taniguchi and built by HKS, all-new Supra drifts with the best of them in the sun and rain in England.
Late last year, Toyota brought back an historic nameplate from the Eighties and Nineties with a little help from BMW, the Supra. The A90 era of Toyota’s greatest supercar picks right up where the A80 left off in the late 1990s and then some. From a blockbuster sale at Barrett-Jackson to appearances in NASCAR’s Xfinity Series, there’s no doubt the world has been waiting for this for quite a while.
And of course, the drifting community couldn’t wait to get their hands on the new Supra, leading to a collaboration between Toyota and HKS to build an insane, 690-horsepower smokeshow for the Goodwood Festival of Speed. With the help of others, YouTuber MattyB727 put together a small video of the action the HKS Supra displayed at this year’s happening on the grounds of the Goodwood Estate in West Sussex, England.
“Check out the Japanese driver Nobuteru Taniguchi in action with the brand new 2JZ-powered Toyota GR Supra A90 drift car built by HKS during the 2019 Goodwood Festival of Speed,” wrote Matty in the video’s description. “That Rocket Bunny widebody looks absolutely amazing!”
What’s more amazing than its looks, of course, is the Supra’s raw drifting power. From the starting line on, the 2JZ makes quick work of the rear tires as Taniguchi swings through the corners and straights before the Goodwood attendees under the blue English skies. Clouds of white smoke follow the car wherever it stops and goes, the 2JZ howling all along the way.
A little later, the Supra takes the stage in a hay-bale pit with black steel oil drums, performing pirouettes around each grouping of drums when not swinging its backside in front of the nearby crowd. So much smoke is made that the drift machine sometimes disappears entirely, only to emerge to rock out again.
Soon, though, the rains arrive to cool off the hillclimb. While some cars can’t handle the wet, the Supra sees it as an extra, proving it can smoke it up no matter how much rain falls. Now we just have to wait until the non-drift cars hit the showrooms so we can all enjoy the madness for ourselves.
