If you want to see the most insane drag racing imports on the planet, don't go to Texas, go to Bahrain. That's the stomping ground of EKanoo Racing, a garage that put its name on the map with crazy Toyotas like this one.
From the front, this white machine looks like a Toyota GT 86. However, there's no 2-liter boxer engine hiding under that body. Instead, it's got a 2JZ engine making well over two thousand horsepower under racing conditions.
It takes a lot of muscle to reach 400 kilometers per hour or 250 mph. That's the sort of speed we associate with the Bugatti Veyron, but the GT86-2JZ does it in a heartbeat.
I don't think we've shown you this car before, and it might be new for 2016. It's supposed to be a GT 86, but it's definitely not running a stock chassis. EKanoo seems to have based this bad boy on their Pro Import Supra model... we think. They also have a mighty Nissan GT-R, a stock chassis GT 86, a Supra and the Nitrous Pro 68 Camaro, which is probably their fastest.
The first hint that this Toyota has gone overboard with the power is the wheelie bar. It also features much wider tires than the street car, but the parachute is shared. Underneath that deceptively simple white body is all the technology you would expect to see in an American dragster.
The A80 Supra has been around since 1993, but I don't think the Japanese engineers who made that 3-liter engine imagined the 2JZ would ever be used for such drag racing. I mean, it's still a factory block for goodness' sake.
The guy who founded the company was a student in Texas back in 1993 and bought a Supra. He later brought it back to Bahrain and started modifying the car and street-racing it. Now, he runs seven different dragsters.
Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida. Full profile
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