For as long as the new Toyota Supra A90 is around, it will always be compared to its predecessors, most notably the Supra Mk4 A80 that was discontinued back in 2002. It’s a weight the current Supra will have to carry for a long time, in part due to the iconic status the Supra A80 in recent years.

Is it fair to compare both cars against each other? Probably not, but that comes with the territory of being a legacy nameplate. So, what do you do when you have a Toyota Supra A90 and a Toyota Supra A80 in the same place, at the same time? Outside of doing the obvious comparison test between the two cars, the only thing you can do is race them. Against each other.

YouTube personality Supercar Blondie recently got the chance to do just that in Dubai, and while we won’t spoil the results here in this space, we can at least say that the race wasn’t so much of an actual race, but more a celebration of just having two Supras from different eras lined up next to each other.

Supercar Blondie spends the first few minutes of her video talking about a lot of the same things. From the fake vents to the Supra’s customization potential, we already know a lot of these things about Toyota’s new sports car.

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This particular Supra has celebrity provenance attached to it, though more on that later. Supercar Blondie}. Obviously, it’s been under its fair share of aftermarket tuning knives, but for the most part, What makes this Supra A80 unique is how new it still looks despite being a 22-year old sports car that does not come with an aftermarket increase in power despite its stature as one of the most customizable engines in the world.

This sets up an interesting race between the two Supras. a lot of what makes this Supra special is still in its proper place, including the legendary 2JZ engine.

If you look at those numbers in a vacuum, the race between these two cars should be close, right?

Well, it isn’t. See, despite having similarly sized engines that produce roughly the same amount of power, On one end, the A80 Supra’s 3.0-liter twin-turbo inline-six engine produces 325 horsepower. From there, technology wins out as the A90 Supra wins the race without breaking a sweat.

While the race wasn’t as competitive as some people might have expected, it really wasn’t the point of the entire episode. It doesn’t happen as much so when there’s an opportunity to line up the Toyota Supra A90 with its legendary ancestor in whatever form or fashion, that’s enough reason to watch the video. It’s even better, I think, if said ancestor also happens to have Will Smith’s signature on the giant rear wing.