Ben here on Prime has his superb 98 Quiksilver Supra TT stock for sale here:
http://www.nsxprime.com/forums/showthread.php?t=132512
Thats a beauty. With each year, there are fewer and fewer actual Supras left really. Bens car is, no exaggeration, one of a *very rare* breed.
The problem is such an epidemic, its hard to say what a Supra even is anymore. I think that is the reason you see such insanity on threads like this. No one even knows what a stock Supra TT is. It isnt considered relevant by anyone (which is idiotic) Everyones "experience" with the Supra is based on cars that were probably totaled and completely rebuilt and dont remotely resemble what Toyota sold with the exception of the engine block (which is all these "enthusiasts" seem to fetishize about the car since they change literally everything else)
To me, in its *stock form*, it's a car I know very well. It was always a fantastic car and a great bargain, although to the vast majority of buyers a $40k Toyota seemed about as ridiculous as an $80k Honda at the time (hence the really small MKIV sales numbers)
The *stock* Supra, the one Toyota actually built and sold and not the frankenstein projects that now make up 80+% of the Supra population, was a really capable car but was just less visceral than an NSX.
To me, the same way the NSX falls short of a Ferrari 355, the Supra falls short of an NSX.
Someone who is really immature and is in that stage where they are out proving their manhood "on the street!" like "DOM TORRETO!" won't understand or appreciate this. To be fair, a boulevard poser wont either.
These "debates" generally come down to wars between those two camps. The ghetto racer who needs 1250 HP so he can "humiliate" other guys "on the street" (until he ends up dead or in jail) vs the boulevard cruiser who really only owns a sports car because he thinks it will make him look rich or help get pu$$y (until he realizes it doesnt work that way or the car gets repo'd)
It is certainly possible for a true enthusiast to prefer the Supra to an NSX without a doubt. But I do think that the NSX excels far more in all of the areas that appeal to the true enthusiast than the Supra which is why history is remembering these two cars the way it is. That isnt really subjective. The NSX was the Japanese Ferrari, but thats not the same as *being* a Ferrari, like it or not. The Supra was a Japanese supercar, but it just wasnt the NSX. Anyone who doesnt come at this argument with religion tends to net it out that way.
