An unlikely match-up? Maybe. But when you consider that the Golf R has all-wheel drive, versus rear-wheel drive in the Supra, and the Golf R's legendary launch prowess, a quarter-mile drag race seems like, at the very least, an entertaining idea.

We secured the latest examples of these 2 cars and lined them up on the Killarney drag strip for a good old-fashioned quarter-mile drag race head-to-head shootout.

A quick reminder of the stats at play here:

2020 Toyota Supra

Power: 250kW

Torque: 500Nm

0-100: 4.3 seconds

2019 VW Golf R

Power: 228kW

Torque: 400Nm

0-100: 4.6 seconds

This was going to be close…

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If you haven't seen the other videos in this series, check them out here:

M2 Competition vs Toyota Supra drag race:

M2 Competition vs Toyota Supra track race:

 

Ciro De Siena

Ciro De Siena

Ciro built his first car website back in his university days and despite denting his first ever test car, it launched his career. He's still at this car journalism gig 16 years later and over the years has hosted live TV segments on national television and hosts a regular car segment on CapeTalk radio. He is most at his happiest however producing content for the Cars.co.za Youtube channel.

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