OUT THERE
HKS 2JZ Supra
We’re huge fans of the new Supra – it’s a
brutal-looking sports car with a weapons-
grade powertrain. But there have been certain
people who’ve suggested that it’s not a proper
Supra, owing to it having a BMW engine
and a lot of other Z4 bits in it. So here’s the
perfect antidote: legendary tuners HKS took
delivery of a pre-production Supra shell and
did what so many purists have been calling
for: bunged a 2JZ in it. It’s running around
700bhp, has a hardcore competition drift
setup, and was thrown up the hill by Nobuteru
Taniguchi – the guy who won the first ever
D1GP championship back in 2001. The motor’s
been bored out to 3.4-litres and runs an
HKS GTIII-4R turbo, and the body (packing a
Pandem kit) is wearing the HKS colours that
became so iconic in the 1990s. A true purists’
interpretation of the new Supra platform, it
looks outstanding and sounds completely
excellent. We love this thing.new drift-spec Lamborghini Huracan.
The big story of 2019 is that the hillclimb
record has finally fallen... back in 1999, Nick
Heidfeld set a time of 41.6 seconds, and
we’ve been waiting twenty years to see if
it could be beaten. Amazingly, the machine
for the job was Volkswagen’s electric ID-R,
the slick racer that’s been toppling records
at Pikes Peak, the Nürburgring and all sorts.
Its time in the Sunday shootout run was a
42.3, as it had been raining all day (so still
bloody impressive!), but on the Friday, Romain
Dumas had already posted a 39-second run.
Genuinely incredible to watch, look it up on
YouTube and thank us afterwards.
And one final thought on the show. We hear
a lot of people saying they’re not sure about
the FoS because it’s getting too busy these
days. But to be honest that’s like throwing
away your dinner because it’s too hot – sure,
there are massive crowds on the Saturday
and Sunday afternoons, that’s when most
people go, but it’s a huge site and there are
always places to go where it’s just you and
the cars without being overcrowded. And our
hot tip is to arrive when the gates open at7am, and go to the rally stage – you’ll have
a peaceful forest all to yourself, the serenity
occasionally punctured by popping anti-lag as
rally cars fly past. It’s life-changingly good.