If you spent any time in the Toyota dealership in the original Gran Turismo, you’ll remember the TRD 3000GT: the wide-body A80 Supra that sat at the top of the brand’s lineup looking like it had escaped from the JGTC grid. Now, one of the real things (and arguably the most historically unusual of them all) is for sale.
Broad Arrow is offering the only known US-specification example at The Quail Auction on Thursday, August 13, 2026, and the price estimate is $500,000 to $800,000.
That’s serious money for a fourth-generation Supra, but this isn’t an ordinary one, and its backstory is stranger than most fiction.
What Is a TRD 3000GT?
When Toyota entered the new Japanese Grand Touring Championship (the series we now know as Super GT) in 1994, its motorsport division built a road-going companion piece to the works JGTC Supra.
Revealed at the 1994 Tokyo Auto Salon, the TRD 3000GT wore essentially the same widened bodywork as the SARD Supra that contested that first JGTC season: fender extensions adding 60mm of width up front and 50mm at the rear, a deeper front fascia feeding a larger intercooler, a quad-vented hood, and reworked side skirts and rear spoiler. Underneath it all was the standard Supra’s 3.0-liter 2JZ-GTE.
The individual parts were all available through TRD’s catalog, but complete factory-assembled cars were another matter. Toyota built just 35 of them, each carrying its own TRD 3000GT identification plate, and most never left Japan.
An Unlikely Journey
This car is the 21st of those 35, and it’s the only one recorded to have started life as a US-market car. It was built in September 1993 as a white, US-specification 1994 Supra Turbo with the six-speed manual and removable roof, and delivered to an emissions testing facility in Santa Ana, California.
A Tokyo resident vacationing in the United States then bought the car and shipped it home, with Japanese registration following in April 1994. Its conversion to full TRD 3000GT specification came quite a bit later, carried out at the Shibaura plant in May 2001 according to the serial plate in the engine bay. It stayed in Tokyo until 2006, covering around 32,000 miles, before a Danish enthusiast imported it to Europe in 2007 and showed it on the local scene for eight years.
The consigning owner bought it in 2015 and has added just 1,500 miles since. The car finally returned to the United States in July 2026.
Along the way, previous owners leaned into the Supra’s famous appetite for modification with period-correct HKS tuning hardware, Recaro leather seats, Defi gauges, and an Alpine head unit. Output is reported at nearly 500 horsepower, which the 2JZ handles without breaking a sweat.
For the purists, the signature TRD pieces (exhaust, Type S rear wing, steering wheel, and instruments) all remain in place.
The Gran Turismo Connection
For a car with only 35 real-world examples, the TRD 3000GT reached an enormous audience.
It appeared in the original Gran Turismo in 1997 and returned for Gran Turismo 2, but hasn’t been seen in the series since, only adding to its mystique. For a generation of players, the TRD 3000GT exists somewhere between memory and myth; an elusive Gran Turismo legend most will likely never see in person.
There’s a corporate connection here, too. Broad Arrow is the auction house of Hagerty, the classic car insurance and valuation company whose market data dynamically prices the Legend Cars in Gran Turismo 7. A car made famous by Gran Turismo is now being sold by the company that helps price Gran Turismo’s rarest virtual cars.
A Growing Market for JDM Unicorns
Values for the fourth-generation Supra have been climbing for years; we were already calling a clean, stock 1994 example a “unicorn” back in 2018, when the bidding stalled at $80,500. A factory-built TRD 3000GT, one of 35 and the sole US-spec car, sits in another category entirely, and the estimate reflects that.
The auction takes place at The Quail during Monterey Car Week on August 13. If you’ve got a spare half-million or so and a Gran Turismo memory card full of nostalgia, you know what to do.
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