Lauren

I don't get this. I've done four long Euro trips in my car including desestricted autobahn on all of them. I think the gearing is ideal. I don't cruise over 80 in this country but the car with the gearing it has is happiest cruising at 100mph. At 90 it's great too as you are well into the torque band of the engine so it picks up really well to about 110mph. Far better than it does at 70mph in 6th gear. Over 100mph fuel consumption really takes a hit I find. On derestricted autobahn I cruise between 100-110mph which is fine. I'll have the odd run over 200km/h (120mph) and beyond where there's space. I do tons of long distance driving in my car, only went from Manchester to London and back yesterday, it handles it really well. I wouldn't want the gearing to be longer. Still returned 43.6mpg as well which is good enough I think.

It sounds like it would not be worth it for you, Annie. The relaying thing is not going to work if your car is in a car park a distance away and they may not know which house/flat you are in too. Better advice is to use a Faraday cage to put your keys in, i.e., a metal box. A friend of mine had the attitude of putting her car keys within easy reach in her house. She went on holiday and had all three cars stolen. Since then and a ridiculous rise in her car insurance she no longer puts the keys in a place where they are easy to find and has installed posts on her driveway. Again, if you go to a shopping mall, they are not going to be able to relay to key if you're walking around a shopping centre, so they won't be able to take the car. It's the same issue if you are any reasonable distance from where you parked your car. If you feel a disc lock is worth it, it's your choice of course.

So 18 months old or so. They'll last a long time yet, so either stay with them or bite the bullet and change them.

I'd say that's about right. You don't really want to go over 130C. You should be alright if you keep your session times to no more than 15 minutes at a time. What track? I've easily seen it read 120C in road driving. I did find on track that it does seem to oddly stabilise a bit around 125C.

Yes.

How about starting a thread and seeing how far we get: 1. Lauren - purple and red (will check size think it was small). 2. 3. 4. 5. 6 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.

It was complicated, I think Rob had something to do with it as well as Richard at RRG. But Adrian and Patrick are very good friends of mine, I've known both of them 20 odd years now! I was with others competing in the TSS which Adrian setup, so there was a huge amount of cross-linking between the lot of us. Tada San wanted to meet the owners of the GT so us lot were an obvious choice!

I didn't specifically ask about the torque dip, because that's really more a result of emissions and to a point to make the car feel like it gets going at higher revs. He was very interested in my AE86 which I still had at the time and loved hearing about that. We talked about what might happen in the future for the GT but he didn't give anything away of course. He enjoyed looking at what I had done to my car. It was a fab day and Toyota looked after us well with food and a mobile ice cream parlour!

Welcome aboard. Enjoy your car. I think splitters seme to be consumable!

That's fine, but it will definitely fall in the group due to date of manufacturer for the valve spring recall. All TRD's do. From my understanding it will run sweet but not if the valve spring breaks! I still haven't had a letter yet, but had mine done back in March (Feb 2013 car).

Annie, I remember the meet with Tada San very well. My work were not impressed when I said I have to take two days off to meet Toyota's chief engineer. We all booked a hotel and dashed down there for the meet up. This was the day after the Referendum in 2016. Funnily enough I was only out for dinner with Ross (guy sitting in the red one) last week! Good times indeed.

You may want to add whether it's had the valve spring recall or not.

Glad you enjoyed it. The view is worth it, but I'm not sure about those hairpins. You have to turn everything off anyway and boot it round as otherwise there can be some reversing involved as it's that tight. I've done it twice but didn't enjoy the staircase much. The first time I went up it was full of bikers, cyclists which was a nightmare. The second time it was quiet which was much better. Preferred the other side where it is more open. Did you get an oppportunity to drive the Grimsel/Susten, Klausen or Furka? The Grimsel/Susten is my favourite on the Swiss side though i think my favourite roads in the Alps are are around the Dolomites. The Hahnntenjoch and Grossglockner in Austria are pretty mega too.

Welcome aboard.

@Church I am talking about tyres that have been on a car for three years rather than tyres that have been optimally stored in warehouses. The bain of low mileage cars.

No, don't bother with that, just press the button for three seconds. It allows you to slide about all you want and no point disabling the ABS for the road. Something I really noticed in the last sprint at Blyton Park where it was wet all day, is that I couldn't floor it out of corners like I could in the dry. I had to ease the throttle down to get a clean getaway on the exit of the tight corners that were in second gear. Flooring it meant sideways and time lost.

Well quite, @Twigman. Sport mode allows barely any slip before it intervenes. I drive with everything off all the time. I could understand it more if people were doing that. But really it's clumsy application of throttle before you are out of the corner. Old Primacy tyres won't help of course. I'd need to be a hooligan to move mine in the wet on PS4's.

Tyres are only good for two years. By the third year they harden up. This is a lot why you are having the issues you are. I ran winters for three years. By the last year they were bordering on dangerous. Change the tyres, they are well over due. That is your problem. @Jay just checked your first post on the forum. If your car is on it's original tyres that will be the issue. As I have explained above.

I would leave it stock whilst you learn the car and get to know it. Much cheaper that way. 👍

Welcome aboard. What are your plans?

It's more likely your driving and use of throttle. It could also be low on tread depth. They are not the most progressive tyre in the wet.

You're welcome. The placement of the HUD is adjustable. If it's easy to do I will adjust next time so I can see it. I had the seat in it's lowest position and I'm 166cm/5ft 5" so it was just a bit too low for me to see.

I always review cars as every day cars. I've tried impractical cars before, but the problem is you don't end up using them. I like to have just one car. I could cope with a Supra, I have zero interest in having more than one passenger and I probably have someone in the back of my car a couple of times a year, normally lift back from a pub or restaurant or some such. For me it would be factoring in the running costs. I do agree that there is a significant amount of competition in that price sector and it's a lot of money to spend so there is much to consider.

I think though as a daily driver, if running costs are affordable, it'd be a very nice place to be. I'm glad the one I tested was in white, I agree blue is boring and I like how the white highlighted the contrast to the black of the vents. I didn't overly mind the gearbox, that wasn't a big issue, I spent 90% of the time manually swopping cogs, though sure I'd love to drive a manual one to get total control. The Supra is obviously very capable and there may be some joy in it's sharp chassis that requires accuracy I suspect, a great deal more than the beautifully malleable GT86 which you can slide at any angle you want. The Supra is a different proposition with it's squarer wheelbase. I want to spend more time in one to get more of a feel for it and work on feeling the balance more in longer more open and flowing roads. I look forward to part two of my review.

Please put up a price and location.