The Toyota GR Toyota Supra sports car is finally available with a manual gearbox, three years after its launch.
The new six-speed manual will be offered in combination with the 335bhp 3.0-litre straight-six engine fitted to the top-rung Supra. Toyota said it has been engineered especially for this powertrain. This means, however, that the Supra’s other engine - the 254bhp 2.0-litre inline four, will not be available with the manual ’box.
As with the smaller Toyota GR Yaris, the gearbox is equipped with an Intelligent Manual Transmission (IMT) mode, which uses an “intelligent control system” to “prioritise sporty performance”. It said that, when upshifting, the gearbox has been tuned to optimise engine torque at the moment of clutch engagement and release. Toyota adds that the IMT is set as the default but can be switched off in Sport mode.
As well as this, the firm said it has engineered the gearbox to avoid a sluggish take-off, with the final drive ratio shortened from the 3.15 of the automatic car's to 3.46. Toyota claims the result is “response and gearing appropriate for sports car performance”. The new transmission also reduces the car’s overall weight by almost 40kg.
In addition, Toyota has refreshed the rest of the Supra range and all models get retuned suspension, with more rigid vulcanised rubber in the front and rear anti-roll bar bushes and retuned shock absorbers.
And to accommodate the new gearshifter, the centre console has been slightly redesigned, with additional space created between the shift lever and the air-con unit.
UK pricing and a specific release date will be confirmed in the coming weeks. Currently, the automatic Supra is priced from £47,505 for the 2.0-litre, and £55,880.00 for the 3.0-litre.
Back in 2019, the Supra was launched alongside the BMW Z4, which shares much of the same powertrain and chassis, but has not been confirmed for a manual option by BMW .
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Sounds a bit like a panic move to me,the Supra isn't exactly cheap is it,when you think the M4 is the cheaper option and a ragtop too! I would take the claim that GR86 has sold it's entire production run in 90 mins with a large dose of salt too how many of these reservations turn into actual sales. I find it difficult to believe that it's going to be available for just a couple of years either Toyota (or Subaru) will alter production to satisfy demand the last BRZ/GT86 was on sale for nearly a decade,the last time Toyota stopped selling a car in the UK after a couple of years was the Camry which didn't sell at all well here.
Panic move? Clearly you have no idea about engineering or development lead times.
And clearly no idea about GR86 either!
Can you imagine, 10 - 20 years ago, a news item telling us a sports car was actually going to be available with a manual gearbox? It wasn’t that long ago you couldn’t get one with an automatic!!
BMW Supra?, it looks like a Toyota on the outside, but, inside, it's a parts bin special albeit BMW parts bin stuff, if your not bothered by that then, that's fine, it's just that I didn't think Toyota would ever do a 21stCentury Supra that wasn't all Toyota.
I agree - While it's extremely nice to now have a manual option (which should have been an option from the start), Toyota could have used their own engines at the very least. The Lexus RC is more of a modern day Supra than this BMW Supra is.