For the second time in a month I was set to panic mode, but this time a Toyota GR Supra Manual was the carriage of concern. What could have gone wrong?

First a few of the tasty updates Supra has been lavished with since it 2019 launch.

The splendid 3.0L straight six still has a turbo, but now has 285kw/500Nm of utterly divine driving deliciousness that now includes  manual transmission option. That 3rd pedal does something, deep down. It thrills some, and terrifies others, but there is nothing on earth like driving the beautifully honed manual that mystifies many.

The BMW/Toyota joint venture still has BMW’s older infotainment system, but it too has been gently rubbed on the inner things of a nubile wench, and now has wireless CarPlay. Toyota resisted CarPlay and Android Auto for the longest of times, but now has wireless CarPlay. GTS models tickle my fancy with the sublime JBL sound system to match.

Our full review will come soon, meanwhile a short video, and the story of the shrieking Supra:

Picture this: I slide into the Supra, press the starter and fire up the straight six. I release the clutch and the beautiful coupé slips out into the gritty concrete streets of Sydney’s shambolic inner west.

I have the window down to hear get the full boomshakala from a engine fashioned from tiny pieces of exploding suns. So far, I’d made it into 3rd gear.

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But, all was not well.

There was an odd tinny scraping noise the reflected from parked cars, as if a flattened soup tin was stuck in a mud flap, scraping the road. I dabbed the brakes to no effect. I reversed into a parking spot but the noise persisted.

I quite rightly decided that I couldn’t risk ruining 100 grand’s worth of sports car.

I slowly rounded the block at a speed not befitting a carriage of this calibre. On the last turn, the scraping sound morphed into the high-pitched banshee scream of a failed water pump. Not for a moment did I think it was the water pump because the sound stopped when the car stopped.

I slinked into the secret bunker where the boys, alarmed by the oncoming screeching, gathered, tools in hand. Supra is too low to take even the lowest of jacks, something to remember should you ever want to rotate the tyres yourself. After an assiduous inspection, the sound appeared to be a suspect driver’s front wheel brake assembly.

We coaxed the Supra, ever so gently, onto a makeshift ramp. A couple of short planks raised the sill far enough for the jack to roll underneath, and sans tyre, we could see the offender. A tarred pebble picked, up from road works, had wedged between the caliper, disc, and backing plate. The backing plate acted as an amplifier for the stone vibrated by the disc, not good for the disc of course. There was no way this gay man could have fettled this filly to satisfaction.

Pebble removed (see upcoming short video), the Supra was released back into her natural habitat, ready to prowl.

As we speak, I am preparing for a turn through the Royal National Park. Be jealous, be very, very, jealous.

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