If a manual, turbocharged Supra has two too few doors for you, here's an interesting alternative to think about...

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It’s been too long since we featured a madly-tuned 2JZ engine on these pages, but we’d like to remedy that with this: a Lexus GS 300 from 2003. My dad has one, but I can tell you this: his does not have 680bhp courtesy of a Borg Warner turbo and upgraded cams, valvetrain and fuel system. As standard the straight-six had 216bhp of ridiculously smooth fizz, but the list of mods on this humble GS is impressive in its own right.

The fuel system, front-mounted intercooler and turbo plumbing are all custom-built, as is the wiring harness to keep everything neat. It rides on Tein Flex coilovers and has four-piston Brembo brakes at the front, with two-piston calipers from an LS 460 at the back. Said to be running in absolutely perfect order, this Japanese boost-fest can run on E85 and US-spec 93-octane fuel. It’s a five-speed manual, too. Tuned for a lumpy idle and smoothness at speed, the builder and seller DRAGint wanted it to be as close to a modified Supra as possible, but with four doors and an opulent leather interior.