VeilSide Toyota Supra headed to 2022 Tokyo Auto Salon

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Manufacturers like Nissan and Subaru will have some interesting stuff at the 2022 Toyota Auto Salon, but so will a slew of aftermarket companies. One notable one is VeilSide, the Japanese tuning company founded and still run by Hironao Yokomaku and probably made famous worldwide by the Fast & Furious franchise. But the operation has been around much longer, winning its first show prize at the 1991 Tokyo Auto Salon, a decade before The Fast and the Furious began teaching us about the importance of family. Carscoops reports that Yokomaku is working on a new Toyota Supra body kit for next month’s show, with footage showing the CEO hasn’t lost his obsession with everything over-the-top.

For now, we only have photos of the unpainted work-in-progress, some of which we pulled from a Japanese video touring the VeilSide warehouse workshop. The Supra gets a clip in the front that is as angry as it is exaggerated, a raised nose cone that soars over a large lip spoiler in the front with aero strakes drawing attention to the sides. The inlets in it will scoop up massive amounts of air. This is reflected in a new hood with perforated bulges and a large air extractor, as well as wider fenders with serious arches. Sills extend like a plinth, connecting the front to the widebody rear. The rear shows off the GR Supra’s duck-tail-like spoiler, clad in exposed bolts presiding over an aggro, striped diffuser that could be from a Gundam series. The pack sits on a quartet of five-spoke VeilSide-branded wheels wrapped in low-pro rubber that peek just below the kit.

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It is nothing less than we would expect from the company. If you want to hear about the car in Yokomaku’s own words, and you speak Japanese, watch this video from 8:40am.

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