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24 hours of lemons

And The Winner Is... The Sofa King Toyota Supra!

After leading for much of the race, the #2 Sofa King Supra just grabbed the win in Toledo. They overcame a 5-lap BS Inspection penalty… which isn't surprising, given that this team is made up of guys who work at Pratt & Miller. We'll have the People's Curse- and more- for you when the photos arrive; for now, make the jump to see the rest of the Toledo Top Five.
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3:30 PM on Sun Sep 14 2008
By Murilee Martin
4,175 views, 59 comments

Latest by EveCarter: This is good news for my dorm which has taken on the project of reviving a 1987 supra for the more »

24 hours of lemons

Mechanical Carnage Abounds In Toledo, Sawzalled Supra Now Leads

According to TheEastBayKid, 16 out of 54 cars have been knocked out of the race by ain't-coming-back-nohow mechanical problems ranging from thrown rods to garbooned suspensions to fires… oh, wait, another message just came in: two more dead cars just dragged off the track. Perhaps the lemonicide results from the lack of the all-night wrenchathon the crews at other LeMons races get (what, you think anyone sleeps between racing sessions?), but we'll have to speculate on that some other time. That's because we've got the new Top Three list for you; the current leader is the #2 Sofa King Supra with its weight-saving custom roof.
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12:40 PM on Sun Sep 14 2008
By Murilee Martin
1,518 views, 8 comments

Latest by andy_wallwhore: Yeah, I misread that. I thought it said only sixteen cars were in the running, now realizing sixteen were out more »

Fun Cars

C&D Wants To Know How Much Fun You Can Have For $25,000

Car und Driver gave its staff a theoretical budget of $25,000 and asked a question many of us have posited to ourselves: What's the most entertaining vehicle I can get with my money? As would be expected when asking a group of car enthusiasts such a subjective — and emotional — question, the answers were all over the board, ranging from a brand new VW GTI to a used Dodge Ram SRT10. But the group ended up with seven used and two new vehicles that, for the most part, we think are pretty fair representations of fun for the dollar. We'll take that Supra Turbo, thank you very much. [Car and Driver]

2:00 PM on Wed Aug 20 2008
By Andrew Stoy
4,894 views, 99 comments

Latest by petersterncan: Buy nothing and instead take the $25,000, put it in an oil/gas trust. That'll earn you about $250/month. more »

down on the street

1985 Toyota Supra

When you start the week with an old Datsun, why not end it with an old Toyota? Somehow, though, the mid-80s Supra doesn't feel all that old, in spite of its incredibly 80s lines and graphics. We saw a good example of its 4-cylinder sibling (or maybe "cousin" is a better way of describing the Celica/Supra relationship of the era) a while back, and this Toyota lives across town, near the '65 Mustang. More »

9:00 AM on Fri May 16 2008
By Murilee Martin
2,809 views, 47 comments

Latest by Type44: @///Mink: I believe it was PJ O'Rourke writing for C&D who said, "the guy responsible for that side marker light needs more »

around the block

Taking A Spin In A JDM Nissan Skyline

The new Nissan GT-R may be stirring up a lot of hype, but before the R35, Skyline lovers on this continent had to have their cars independently imported. The problem is, since the gray-market heyday of the '80s, the American import laws have been pretty dang strict. So, we decided to make our way up to Toronto, to check out how hoons in great white north do things. This particular operation, ONI JDM, has brought in everything from kei cars to fully-modded RX-7s, Supras, and of course Skylines. They offered to take us for a ride in their drift-spec R32 Nissan Skyline, so we bolted down the video camera and strapped ourselves in.

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Feature

12:30 PM on Fri May 9 2008
By Mark Arnold
5,817 views, 58 comments

Latest by mr.chophoppers: Oh lawd I want the Subaru Vivio RS-R on kei-cars.com It's been a dream since 1992, knowing that one is available more »

celebrities

Bollea Expected To Let Judge Decides His P***y Fate

The ongoing trial of Nick Bollea, son of the Hulkster, previous owner of a P***y Magnet 1998 Toyota Supra, street racer and driver during a wreck that left another individual critically injured, has taken another turn that could be dastardly for the son of the Hulkster. Bollea originally plead not guilty to felony charges of reckless driving involving serious bodily injury, but is expected to withdraw the plea and likely plea guilty or no contest to the charges and put his fate in the hands of the judge with a maximum sentence of five years in prison. The passenger at the time of the wreck, John Graziano, is still bed-ridden and is in the process of filing a lawsuit against the Bollea family. [TBO] (Image)

12:15 PM on Fri May 9 2008
By Travis Hudson
2,134 views, 33 comments

Latest by cazin678: @Novaload: Who said he wasn't wearing a seat belt? Oh yeah- Brooke Hogan. Her version differs with the forensic evidence obtained at the more »

celebrities

Hulk Hogan Sued Over Son's Super Supra Crash

Hulk Hogan, also known as Terry Bollea, is being sued by John Graziano, the passenger of the 1998 Toyota Supra that was wrecked by his Supra-loving son, Nick Hogan. Graziano's lawyer filed suit against the Hulkster yesterday after the wreck last August left Graziano with severe head trauma.
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4:15 PM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Travis Hudson
9,562 views, 45 comments

Latest by Hello_Newman: Yeah if he was a minor or an employee doing business and caused it due to being a wreckless jackass more »

celebrities

Police Photos From Nick Hogan Supra Crash Released, Still P***y Magnet Yellow

How does the age-old adage go? Mangled or not, it's still a yellow p***y magnet? The Clearwater Police Department has released hundreds of pictures of the p***y magnet yellow 1998 Toyota Supra. The original report says that Nick "Hogan" Bollea originally struck a curb, spun 180 degrees and slammed into a palm tree. These pictures look more like the Hulkster got a hold of the car at Wrestlemania 1998 and tore it to shreds.
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4:00 PM on Thu Mar 13 2008
By Travis Hudson
20,566 views, 58 comments

Latest by cazin678: Do check out the YouTube clips of Little Nicky learning to drive- his level of incompetence is truly difficult to more »

over the back fence

2010 Toyota Supra Super Speculation Scan Potential

Speculation is something that's never in short supply in the automotive business, an observation that seems doubly true in the case of the next gen Toyota Supra. First, the Toyota FT-HS was totally going to be it. Then someone tried to convince everyone the FT-HS was the next generation Toyota Celica or AE86. Most recently, a Toyota exec hinted that the FT-HS could be a vision for the "Toyota Supra of the future." Yeah, sure. Now everyone's favorite scanned Japanese automag, BestCar, has some renderings of a very FT-HS looking Supra. Grains of salt all around. One more scan below the jump. More »

Spy Photos

10:20 AM on Thu Mar 13 2008
By Matt Hardigree
7,350 views, 26 comments

Latest by FutureCarDesigner: Toyota has a really good photo copier. photocopier + Hyundai Tiberon + Mitsubishi Eclipse = This Picture. more »

gossip

Desperately Seeking Supra, Toyota Exec Hints That FT-HS Could Be Next Supra

Toyota showed off its Toyota FT-HS concept without much in the way of explanation as to what exactly we were supposed to take from it. It's a high performance hybrid, sure. But is it the next Supra? The next Celica? WTF Toyota? To add a bit more confusion, Toyota's Australian project manager mentioned at the Australian debut of the concept that we should "think of it as a Prius on steroids. Alternately, it could be a vision for a Toyota Supra of the future." Could be, or is? Continue to fuel those Supra rumors Toyota. Press release for parsing below the jump.

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10:20 AM on Thu Feb 28 2008
By Matt Hardigree
1,842 views, 35 comments

Latest by tekdemon: @ЯEVEЯEЙD POLAЯ: It's kind of amazing, but I *still* want a twin turbo Supra, even though they stopped making them more »