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It’s normally a few months after a car goes on sale that potty tuners get their grubby hands on them and start sending power figures into the stratosphere. Not the new Supra. The bosses at Toyota understand that the tuning industry helped give the old Supra a leg up into the Automotive Hall of Fame, so is embracing the aftermarket from the outset.

Before the new Supra was even unveiled, Toyota posted a handful of them to tuning shops. One of those was Fat Five Racing, which just so happens to be owned by Japanese drift driver Daigo Saito. This year, the former D1 Grand Prix champ will pilot the new Supra in Japan’s top-flight skid series, but he had to make it fit for purpose.

First job? Siphon as much of the BMW blood from it and spit it out. Unsurprisingly, the technical collaboration between Toyota and BMW is a real sticking point with Japanese tuners. So Fat Five binned the BMW-sourced 3.0-litre turbo and shoved in a legendary and bulletproof JDM heart: the Toyota 2JZ from the MkIV Supra. TG approves of this.

HKS then applied a 3.4-litre stroker kit and a huge turbo making it good for 800bhp. To complete the look, bloated bodywork was draped over the hilariously widened track, the wheel sizes were beefed up, and the suspension was completely reworked to slam the car but allow for lots of camber and seemingly boundless amounts of steering angle.

But this is just the tip of the iceberg. Things will get a lot crazier from here as the rest of the tuning world already has its angle-grinders and gas axes ready in anticipation. Who knows? This might just be the tuner’s tuning car of the decade. Just like its daddy was.