So the engine bay is basically exactly the same as the Z4's, and the suspension likely is, too. I only had suspension photos of the new 3 Series, but those showed quite a bit of commonality between the Bavarian sedan and the new Supra, as well.

We knew the Supra shared a platform and powertrain with BMW, but the main takeaway here is that, looking at the Supra, it’s fairly obvious that it pretty much is a BMW when it comes to the main hardware. According to Haushalter, what Toyota did was alter the tuning on things like steering effort and suspension damping.

So, you thought a $121,000 auction price for that immaculate 1994 Toyota Supra on Bring a Trailer was a little much? Yeah, so did we. That was cute of all of us, because the car is now back up for sale by a Chicago dealership for $500,000.

Well, it’s $500,000 flat or $7,902 per month for 60 months after a $100,000 downpayment. It’s your choice, really. Both options are enticing.

Carscoops spotted this listing and its incredible $379,000 markup from Chicago Northside Toyota, and, although there are no photos of it on the dealer website yet, it’s the car we saw sell for a ridiculous six figures a couple of weeks ago—it has the same listed VIN number as the Bring a Trailer Supra did, along with the same color specifications, the same six-speed manual and the same 7,111-mile odometer reading. It also describes the car as a “recent arrival.”

It’s the same car, with about $400,000 tacked onto an already absurd sale price. Auction results from Bring a Trailer, where Supras go to sell for ridiculously high prices, show that the more expensive Supra auctions usually top out at around $60,000 to $80,000. An automatic 1994 Suprawith less than 6,000 miles on it went for $80,500 last year.

Then, there’s the little black dot that creeps just past the $120,000 line on the chart. That was this Supra, and it was already in a zip code of its own due to a six-figure bidding war between potential buyers.

The winning account on Bring a Trailer, zleist, commented on the listing after winning the car at $121,000 to say it was “being added to the Chicago Northside Toyota Showroom” and to “ask for Zach.”

The dealership’s listing has two lines about Supra itself, which is apparently worth $500,000, before heading into its spiel about how it prices cars:

The dealership got at least one thing right here: This Supra will be haggle free, because, no matter how much Fast and Furious fame it has, a dealer that lists this car at $500,000 will never actually bring it down to a semi-logical price.

But as Road & Track noted earlier today, the outrageous price isn’t to actually sell the car—it’s to get people into the dealership to see it. From there they can drum up excitement about the new 2020 Supra, or at the very least get you into a RAV4 or something.

But hey, if anyone walks in with a cool half-mil and a lust for the old Supra, maybe they’ll have a shot.

It comes with a one-of-one color combination right off the assembly line.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: getting the first production model of a car that rolled off the assembly line is euphoria for car collectors, more so, if the car you're buying has a rich and legendary history such as the 2020 Toyota Supra.

As announced last month, the first production model of the A90 Supra went up for auction this weekend at the Barrett-Jacksoncharity auction in Scottsdale, Arizona. The first production Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 was also sold at this Barrett-Jackson car auction for $1.1 million. Its winning bidder was Craig Jackson, Chairman and CEO of the said auction house, with all of the proceeds going to charity.

For the Toyota sports car on lot #3010, the hammer went down at $2.1 million. Just like the first Shelby GT500, all proceeds from the sale of the first Supra will go to charities, namely the American Heart Association and Bob Woodruff Foundation. The latter supports post-9/11 impacted service members, veterans, and their families.

The winning bidder owns the rights to the first production Toyota Supra, which also happens to be the first version of the iconic sports coupe in the U.S. and bears VIN 20201 – "2020" stands for the year the GR Supra was reintroduced, while "1" marks its place as the first model out of the production line.

It also comes with a one-of-one color combination, integrating a matte gray exterior, red mirror caps, and matte black wheels. Inside, it will have a red and black theme plus carbon fiber inserts to go with its compelling exterior design.

Aside from the exclusive color theme, the first production Supra comes with an engine cover signed by Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda. The winning bidder also receives a full VIP race track experience, which includes a fully customized professional racing suit, two VIP passes and hot passes to TOYOTA OWNERS 400 - Richmond Raceway, and a chance to drive the pace car with Michael Waltrip.

Something else special debuted at the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Auction this weekend: Motorious, the world's largest collector car marketplace and enthusiast platform, brought to you by the folks behind Motor1.com and Motorsport. Check it out in beta here, and special thanks to Motorious for providing us exclusive live images of the first production Supra from the auction floor in Scottsdale.

Despite years of hype, the 2020 Toyota Supra comes with one major crushing disappointment: It’s only only available with an eight-speed automatic transmission. While we shouldn’t hold our breath for a manual Supra since no concrete plans have been shared, we can dig into the BMW parts catalog to see whether a manual swap would be possible.

The easiest path to our manual swap might be to look at the European spec 2019 BMW Z4 2.0i, which will be available with a manual transmission.

While that transmission is not a good choice for the Supra since it only comes mated to the four-cylinder engine, and in the U.S. market the Supra is six-cylinder only for now, the surrounding components can be useful.

One of the bigger pieces in doing a manual swap may have already been taken care of by BMW, as the manual version of the Z4 appears to use the exact same firewall as the Supra. This means that even though the Supra is not available with the manual, all the mounting points for a clutch pedal and clutch master cylinder should already be present.

Using the same firewall between cars is not unusual, especially in the case of BMW, as the E46 M3 had provisions for a clutch pedal even in the SMG version. Since we know that the Z4 clutch pedal and master cylinder will mount to the car, they can be ordered from European BMW dealers once the parts become available to solve that part of the equation.

The hydraulics that lead from the master cylinder to the slave cylinder can also be used and will likely mount in the Supra the same way that they mount in the Z4 so no custom lines should be required. The pieces are also very similar to the ones used on the last-gen 340i here in the U.S. so those could likely be also made to fit with some modifications.

That leads us into the next portion of the swap, which is choosing the right gearbox. Our answer may come from the 340i as it uses a variant of the same B58 3.0L engine and is available with a manual. The bellhousing pattern on the 340i engine and the Supra engine appears to be the same so the six-speed manual GS6-4BZ gearbox should bolt right up.

While this is the best available choice at the moment, it is important to note that the Supra produces 33 more lb-ft of torque than the Euro-spec 340i. While it should be within the tolerance range of that gearbox, this is something to bear in mind.

Supplementary pieces for the transmission such as the linkages and shifter can be grabbed from the 340i as they will bolt up directly to that gearbox but they may require some customization to be set at the correct length to match up to the shifter hole in the cabin. Alternatively, a Z4 shifter and linkages can be combined with the parts to minimize the fabrication once they are available for purchase.

The rest of the hardware, such as the driveshaft, will probably have to be customized since the new gearbox will most likely not be the same length but that part can be taken care of by most driveshaft shops for a few hundred dollars.

The only unknown piece of the swap right now is the electronics, since the ECU in the Supra will be looking for an automatic transmission and will go into a limp once it doesn’t find one. But luckily, there is precedent for that modification as well. Since the Supra uses a standard BMW ECU, or DME as they call it, the coding for the transmission should be editable. Once tuners are able to access it, the automatic transmission settings can be removed.

Based on these pieces in the parts catalog it appears that a manual swap will be a fairly straightforward proposition on the Supra. I am sure that we’ll see some swapped cars fairly quickly after they start deliveries.