Row, row, row your gears,
Gently down the street,
Merrily merrily, merrily, merrily,
Clutch kick and let of some steam.

Yes, you might actually be able to clutch kick in a brand new Toyota Supra A90. Yes, that faux BMW Z4 Supra. Yes, a proper clutch kick with a third pedal. Yes, you probably won’t be able to afford one anyways. Yes, we’d swap a night of passion with Mia Khalifa to own one.

On a surface level, the new Supra A90 didn’t do itself any favours with the already narrow-minded enthusiast crowd that wanked off to its predecessor every night before going to bed. It shared a base BMW chassis and engine but more horrifically, it lacked a manual option.

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To rub salt into the wound, Toyota themselves admitted that they’d engineered a manual version but were apprehensive if putting it into production was a financially viable investment.

While rumours were rife that a manual was in the works for the base 2.0-litre variant, it’s now picked up some boost and whispers that even the 3.0-litre trim might get the full three-pedal treatment.

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The Drive quotes rumours from a source that corroborated the GR Corolla hot hatch; so there might be an ounce of truth to this. Nonetheless, nobody with links to Toyota has hinted at it.

A manual Supra A90 has always been the wet dream for many; the forbidden fruit of the driving world… the threesome with Mia Khalifa and Lisa Ann that this world was never made privy to.

It wouldn’t be the first manual Supra A90 though. Early last year, European Auto Group took on the Lord’s work themselves and set out to manual swap the coupe. The hardware side of things is a lot easier than you might imagine. After all, the B58 engine from BMW can be had in a plethora of BMW models with a manual box.

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Their demo car used a BMW 520d transmission that they claimed could handle 1,000 hp with a top speed exceeding 200 mph (322 kph). Customers’ cars could use any of the compatible transmissions from BMW models. It’ll cost a pretty penny though at USD 12,000 (~RM 50,000).

The very same source states the three-pedal Supra A90 could make it to showrooms in 2022 together with a high-performance GRMN trim. We find that latter bit a little hard to swallow as BMW would be reluctant to allow Toyota use of their S58 3.0-litre engine from the M3 and M4. Nonetheless, seeing that tuners have taken the B58 into the 1,000 hp realm safely, perhaps Toyota wouldn’t need the S58.

But alas, all we can do is keep our hands onto ourselves with the virtual company of Miss Khalifa until the opportunity may arise for us to get our greasy palms onto the manual knob of a Supra A90.