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Can You Make the 2020 Toyota GR Supra's Fake Vents Functional?

The simple answer to the question in the headline would be yes if you were to believe Tada-san. The chief engineer of the A90 had a chat with a motoring magazine at the beginning of the year, and he claimed that the fake vents can be made functional “very easily.”
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Photo: Jackie Ding on YouTube
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More to the point, they “come off very easily." But Jackie Ding believes the exact opposite, challenging the man who has overseen the development of the GR Supra with a bit of a rant.

Ever since he bought the car, #JD86 was asked when he would remove the fakeness for a more appropriate look, better cooling, and improved aerodynamic qualities. The six-minute video starts off with the hood vents, popping up the hood for you to see that the black-painted plastic vents located on the sides are sealed off by metal.

The drivel continues with the rest of the Japanese sports car with German underpinnings and Austrian build quality. The blocked air vents at the sides of the front bumper are close to useless, and so are the vents next to the headlamps. Adding insult to injury, the latter pair would also slow you down if you were to open them up.

The shenanigans continue with the vents on the doors, and if you were wondering, opening up the vents located on the sides of the taillamps would make “a very negligible difference” according to the time-attack racing driver. It saddens us to come to the same conclusion, but there’s no point in trying to bring functionality to Toyota’s shameful garnish.

Look at GR Supra-based racing cars and you’ll also notice those builds don’t use the factory locations for their vents. Given that a racing engineer knows a lot more about this topic than most people out there, the elephant in the room is getting bigger and bigger with each unfounded brag from Tada-san.

Oh, and by the way, here’s the full quote from the chief engineer, coming courtesy of Road & Track. “They're just capped on the production car. Those are for the racing model. When the customer goes and converts it to a racing car, or adds those necessary components, those caps come off very easily. So, it's already pre-made, ready to accommodate."

Right…

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About the author: Mircea Panait
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After a 1:43 scale model of a Ferrari 250 GTO sparked Mircea's interest for cars when he was a kid, an early internship at Top Gear sealed his career path. He's most interested in muscle cars and American trucks, but he takes a passing interest in quirky kei cars as well.
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