Toyota Supra RZ

Toyota threw bubble-era money at the A80 and it shows. Aluminum suspension arms and bonnet, a curvy shell that looked nothing like the wedge it replaced, and in RZ trim the full arsenal: 2JZ-GTE with sequential twin turbos, the Getrag V160 six-speed, and 280 PS on paper with far more waiting in the tune. In 1993 it was benchmarked against Porsche and priced like one — which is exactly why it sold slowly and mattered anyway.

The street found what the showroom missed. The 2JZ's over-engineered iron block became the tuning world's north star — four-figure horsepower on stock internals stopped being a boast and became a Tuesday. Top Secret's gold Supras, JGTC campaigns, and then the 2001 Fast and the Furious orange hero car pushed the A80 from cult tuner chassis to mainstream legend while Toyota quietly kept building it for Japan until 2002.

The RZ six-speed is the spec everyone wants and the one Japan kept fewest of — automatics and naturally aspirated SZs vastly outnumber it. US 25-year eligibility began in 2018, the movie stunt car sold for $550,000 in 2021, and clean unmodified RZs have been climbing ever since. Few cars have a wider gap between how many were built and how many survived stock.