LoveCarsTV did a great walkthrough with Tom's marketing director Kamiyama Hiroshi about the car- the philosophy of the car is "true sports" taking inspiration from Tom's SuperGT GT500 racecars, like the current LC500. The fenders have been widened to be the same width as the GT500 LC500...
If you actually got the context, he mean his goals for the next 86 would be to be better than the supra... IN TERMS OF HANDLING. All these clickbait articles took him out of context.
Nice! have you followed Jackie Ding's track day vlogs? He's running at gridlife with his new supra! He's got a wrap and is running good times with just wheels tires and pads.