This year, Toyota brought the whole Supra collection to the SEMA show, all in white which made it super easy to compare them all and choose a favorite, not that I needed that in order to pick one. I overhead a group people discussing which generation was their favorite and they all seemed pretty undecided.

For me, it’s hands down the Second Gen. The A60 was only produced from 1981 to 1985 but I still think of it as the main Supra. Let’s face it, the First Gen was pretty clumsy looking, the Third Gen resembles a poor man’s F-body or an FD RX-7 and the Fourth Gen is for just kids and the Hogan family.

I really can’t get enough of the exaggerated, low-poly shape of the Second Gen Supra. Since a picture is still worth at least a couple of hundred words these days, I took Toyota’s SEMA 2018 showing as an opportunity to try and get some angles of the car that really do it for me.

Toyota also had some other interesting stuff going on. I don’t think I’ve heard anything about hydrogen fuel cells since high school, but Toyota had a Tundra there that apparently runs on hydrogen and can make pizzas or something. I didn’t really stick around long enough to see it do anything though. I was too busy playing the free Ivan Stewart Super Off Road arcade machine and getting frustrated beyond belief. I’ve got to say- it was an excellent move on Toyota’s part to bring the game with them to the show but I think it should have been more prominently displayed. It was basically tucked into a corner, not even close to where the actual Ivan Stewart truck was. Either way, it was a cool idea, and I definitely spent longer at the Toyota booth than any of the other major manufacturers’ areas.It’s funny, I realized afterwards that I never really even took a close look at the new Supra. I spent all of my time on an outdated, underpowered car and an outdated, graphically underwhelming video game. I’m not sure what that says about me, but oh well. I’m going to go look at Celicas on Craigslist now.