2019 Toyota Supra makes world debut

The new 2019 Toyota Supra has finally made its world debut – albeit covered in camouflage.

The video below shows the reborn A90 Toyota Supra driven for the first time in public, with the car's chief engineer Tetsuya Tada and Herwig Daenens taking turns behind the wheel across the four-day event.

Powered by a BMW 3.0-litre six-cylinder turbo-petrol engine worth around 250kW and 450Nm, the car is expected to rip to 100km/h in about 4.5 seconds. Although it's hard to tell from the video just how rapidly it take off – given the camera angle changes – it’s certainly motoring after a couple seconds.

The exhaust note from the car sounds a little underdone (where are the pops and crackles between shifts?) and although the car sits low to ground, looks suitably sleek in motion and appears to hug the corners, the Supra's dynamic debut was somewhat underwhelming.

A cheeky burnout wouldn’t have gone astray – see motoring.com.au's Mike Sinclair do just that last year in the HSV GTSR.

Other significant vehicles blasting up the Goodwood hill climb this weekend include a Supra rival in the form of the Nissan GT-R50 fettled by Italdesign, plus the Aussie-made Brabham BT62.

The Polestar 1, Nio EP9 EV supercar, McLaren Senna, Lamborghini Urus, Ford Mustang Bullitt, the zany Aston Martin V8 Cygnet micro car and many more will also go gangbusters up point-to-point sprint.

The Supra's body is covered with camouflage that pays homage to the TS050 race car that secured Toyota’s first Le Mans 24 Hour win (in 19 attempts) last month, so the visual details of the next-generation Toyota Supra will remain a secret until it's outed later this year, possibly at the 2018 Paris motor show in early October.

However, if you want a quick squiz at how the final car will look, check out the computer-generated images of the 2019 Toyota Supra and see what you think.

Toyota is still keeping final design details of this fifth-generation Toyota Supra to itself but it's all but certain to get a BMW 3.0-litre inline six-cylinder turbo-petrol engine.

The A90 Toyota Supra rides on the same platform as the next-generation BMW Z4 and although it will be executed very differently, the front-engine, rear-drive coupe's interior will feature many BMW components, such as the switchgear, iDrive rotary controller and other elements.

Sales of the new Toyota Supra will begin mid-way through 2019 but according to Toyota Australia's vice-president for sales and marketing, Sean Hanley, the car has still not been confirmed for sale here.

Nevertheless, his tone suggests Toyota Australia is super keen to bring it Down Under.

"The Supra nameplate commands enormous respect and there has been huge public interest in the development of the new model so we would like to see it on Australian roads," said Hanley.

"It's a car that truly demonstrates Toyota's commitment to building and selling cars that really stir the emotions and deliver superb driving excitement."