A Solid Daily Driver - Toyota Supra Review

Jul 29, 2023

A Solid Daily Driver - Toyota Supra Review

The 2020 Supra (MK5 A90) is an interesting car. It’s not the most powerful for the price, or the fastest, or the most comfortable, or available with a manual transmission. However, it is a great package that no matter what way you look at it, can be justified in your life. Need a daily driver? It’s comfortable, quiet if you want it to be, and fairly easy to park. Want a fun weekend car? As long as you keep the windows up, the Supra will blast a smile on to your face with the B58 engine and 8-speed ZF transmission that shifts as quickly as most dual clutch systems and I’d even compare it to the Porsche PDK.

Don’t get me wrong please, it is a fun car to drive when you drive it hard, it handles well, it gets up to speed quickly, but it lacks a bit of drama and that may be due to it not coming with a stick and also not being able to drive with the windows down without feeling sick. Thanks for watching!

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Content

0.049 -> He's approaching the speed bump head-on

1.55 -> Can he make it?

2.55 -> Yes he can!

3.55 -> He clears it

4.55 -> Can he make it out of the drive way with a slight angle on the curb?

6.38 -> Ah a little bit of a scrape there that's okay

8.51 -> Makes it through most of Los Angeles

10.26 -> Can he make it into the parking lot with a parking stopper?

13.28 -> Yes!

14.28 -> The car is the perfect height here in Los Angeles California

17.22 -> This is the 2020 Toyota Supra

59.899 -> I've been living with it for about a week here in Los Angeles, California

62.839 -> Thanks to Toyota for sending me this car as a loaner for this review

66.61 -> Thanks to all of you who watched the GT86 Hakone Edition video.

70.29 -> I really do appreciate it

71.5 -> In this video

72.5 -> I'm going to talk to you about what the Supra is like to live with here in Los Angeles California

76.84 -> Yes

77.84 -> Traffic and my commute have changed due to Covid and work from home

80.57 -> But I've still put over 500 miles on this car and I wanna tell you what I think about

84.5 -> how it looks, how it drives, and how it does as a daily.

88.32 -> This car sounds great

93.6 -> This car looks fantastic

94.88 -> But I only have 1 parking spot here in LA

97.74 -> So if I were to get a car like this

99.63 -> it would have to be my Daily

101.33 -> Could I live with it?

102.61 -> Let me tell you.

104.31 -> As a photographer, I need to be able to fit an entire studio's worth of gear except for

108.53 -> a paper backdrop in the car

110.2 -> and surprisingly the Supra can do that

112.14 -> Large carry-on camera bag

115.03 -> light stand, light, apple box for someone to sit on

117.39 -> and it all fits pretty easily

119.7 -> Now my big gripe with the trunk however

121.78 -> is that you can't open it from outside of the car

124.67 -> When you walk up to it whether it's with groceries or a camera bag

127.52 -> You have to pull out the key to open the trunk

129.94 -> Or open the driver's door and tap the button on that panel cause they don't have a button

134.25 -> for the trunk on the outside

136.11 -> I also slid my foot under the car and there's no trunk release foot activated like some

141 -> ford and BMW models have

142.56 -> and I think this would be a really easy compliant to fix

145.89 -> hopefully Toyota adds a button for future models

148.39 -> Ok so small trunk issue aside

150.47 -> What's it like to drive the Supra? Honestly, it's good. It's good!

155.47 -> I wouldn't say it's great, not the craziest thing I've ever driven and it doesn't feel

159.02 -> that special from inside but the actual driving characteristics are great. It is a yin and

164.33 -> yang all in one car.

165.93 -> What I mean by that

166.93 -> Is that when I took it to the canyons in Malibu it handled really well

170.01 -> Of course

171.01 -> as it should

172.01 -> With 335 horsepower, 365 foot-lb of torque which I think the numbers are a little bit

176.06 -> low because it feels faster than that

177.92 -> The sensations are great

179.35 -> Its got 275s on the rear and 255 in the front

182.68 -> it's a staggered setup

183.68 -> and the car handles the canyons really well

186.01 -> I personally couldn't push it more than 6 or 7 tenths without feeling like I'm in danger

190.9 -> so I would save that for the track but the car does well as a weekend car

195.03 -> and on the flip-side it does well in traffic

197.74 -> You have radar cruise control thanks to it having an automatic and not coming in a manual.

202.74 -> The 8-speed ZF transmission shifts very quickly with the paddles and in the sport transmission

208.39 -> setting mode it actually does the shifting really well

212.16 -> and it was great

213.16 -> it sounds good on acceleration

214.83 -> It does the crackles and pops which are really fun in tunnels and just driving through the

218.67 -> city

219.67 -> so this car is exciting to drive

221.56 -> Does it feel special from the inside just sitting in it? No.

224.61 -> This isn't some crazy car

226.06 -> it doesn't feel like anything other than a BMW

228.64 -> and about that..

230.13 -> Nobody is trying to hide the fact that this car is essentially a BMW with a Toyota badge

234.72 -> That's like me trying to disguise myself with just a mustache and a silly yellow hat

238.38 -> I don't think that really works

239.76 -> Look at the key shape

240.77 -> It's exactly the same as a BMW key

243.19 -> The shifter in the middle...BMW

245.29 -> The mirror switch on the doors..BMW

247.989 -> The iDrive controller BMW

250.239 -> Which by the way you can write on with your finger up top which is kinda cool

253.68 -> The CarPlay app that it tells you to download when you connect your phone for the first

257.06 -> time

258.06 -> B M W

259.06 -> and the logos on the B58 engine

261.489 -> BMW

262.489 -> So they're not really trying to hide anything

264.539 -> From the outside this car is very special

267.009 -> It is gorgeous

268.3 -> You can not find a bad angle from which to take a photo or video of this car

271.99 -> I found myself taking photos of it

273.96 -> and staring at the car all the time

275.819 -> I even went out to a restaurant

277.539 -> couldn't look at my food

278.729 -> was just staring at the car in the parking lot

280.43 -> The thing with the car is a lot of people wanted to talk to me at red lights so I would

284.27 -> roll down the windows and have a quick conversation with them and this thing definitely turns

288.37 -> heads

289.37 -> The issue with rolling down the window however is the wind buffeting noise which I didn't

292.77 -> know existed until I drove the car and it is horrible.

296.5 -> Take a listen.

297.509 -> As we speed up

298.509 -> past 35 to 40 miles an hour

299.99 -> You should hear the wind start to bounce around in the car

305.789 -> Hear that?

306.789 -> Essentially what happens when you roll one or both of the windows down

309.389 -> No matter how much or how little you roll them down

311.93 -> What variation

313.36 -> You can not get away from this noise

315.439 -> and it sounds like when you're in a 4 door car and someone in the backseats rolls down

319.479 -> the window

320.479 -> and it's a helicopter going

321.479 -> doot doot doot doot doot doot doot

322.86 -> in your ears

323.86 -> driving with this actually made me nauseous when I did it for over 20 minutes

327.839 -> and driving with the windows up although it's ok with the AC on

331.289 -> You lose a lot of that exhaust note and the crackles and pops

334.949 -> So to fix this issue there are aftermarket kits which I'm sure work because just by placing

339.669 -> my hand between the mirror and the car

342.639 -> I was able to get rid of this wind noise problem

345.05 -> As hard as I tried to find a reason not to daily a Toyota Supra

348.93 -> It's just not possible

350.199 -> This thing is fuel efficient getting up to 31 miles per gallon on a roadtrip

354.12 -> and I did take it from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara and achieve that.

357.43 -> So good on fuel efficiency

359.059 -> It fits everything that I need

361.099 -> It looks good

362.509 -> It's convenient

364.02 -> except for the trunk

365.27 -> and it's got the interior of a BMW

367.71 -> so Apple CarPlay is really nice

369.119 -> it's got a wireless charging pad for my phone

371.259 -> it's easy to park

372.27 -> it has 360 parking sensors

374.439 -> and a rear camera

375.849 -> so honestly

377.479 -> I can't complain

378.479 -> and the subwoofers are a nice touch too which really surprised me in this car.

382.099 -> Anyway hope you enjoyed the review

383.589 -> subscribe for more videos

384.779 -> and next week I'm gonna be featuring a BMW E30 with a Nissan SR20 turbo engine in it

390.66 -> Hope you enjoy that one

391.86 -> Thanks for watching

392.86 -> PEACE

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gJoZtQFrHY