Time to shed a tear for Japan’s most misunderstood sports activities automotive, the Toyota GR Supra. After six years, manufacturing of this BMW three way partnership product is ready to conclude in 2025 on the Magna Steyr plant in Graz, Austria – however not earlier than one final hurrah.
Heading into its closing mannequin 12 months, the fifth-generation Supra receives a number of mechanical upgrades to additional enhance its appreciable dynamic capabilities. These embody revised adaptive dampers, stiffer entrance anti-roll bar (mounted on strengthened aluminium hyperlinks entrance and rear), entrance management arm bushings, rear subframe mounts and rear underfloor bracing, and retuned electrical energy steering.
The adjustments – which additionally embody a retuned lively rear differential to scale back understeer – serve to enhance management, improve physique rigidity and suggestions from the street floor, and ship extra direct steering really feel, Toyota claims. They add to the already spectacular listing of updates launched in 2020 and 2022, which bumped up the efficiency and dealing with of the two-door, two-seater coupé.
Exterior mods embody a ducktail carbon fibre rear spoiler, becoming a member of forces with new entrance wheel arch flaps and better entrance tyre spats to optimise aerodynamic stability and downforce. The 19-inch multi-spoke cast aluminium wheels that had been launched in 2022 acquire a matte black end and have elevated camber to enhance grip; they conceal bigger Brembo entrance brake discs. Inside, the Supra beneficial properties GR-branded real leather-based and Alcantara upholstery, together with crimson seatbelts and handbook gearknob ring.
Solely the straight-six mannequin is being carried over into 2025 (as there’s no point out of the four-cylinder model), powered by an unchanged 3.0 litre B58 turbocharged mill producing 387 PS at 5,800 rpm and 500 Nm of torque from 1,800 to five,000 rpm. Patrons retain the selection of both an eight-speed ZF computerized gearbox or a six-speed handbook, the latter additionally added in 2022.
And that’s not all – Toyota can also be making simply 300 models of the extra-special A90 Closing Version. Removed from being a mere color and trim package deal as earlier restricted editions had been, it is a correct efficiency mannequin that gives a stirring ship off.
Regardless of utilising the identical B58 six-pot – and never the M3/M4’s S58 twin-turbo unit as beforehand rumoured – some fettling has freed up some further horses. Because of a redesigned consumption and a lower-back-pressure catalytic converter, outputs have been boosted to 435 PS at 6,000 rpm and 570 Nm at 4,500 rpm. What’s extra, the Closing Version is just supplied with the honest-to-goodness row-your-own transmission.
Different tweaks enhance the automotive’s efficiency on observe, together with a baffled oil pan and elevated cooling on account of a strengthened radiator fan, a brand new sub-radiator and enlarged rear differential cowl cooling fins. An Akrapovič titanium rear muffler has additionally been fitted to offer the Closing Version a suitably rorty exhaust notice.
In the meantime, the upgraded chassis incorporates a number of goodies from the GT4 racer, akin to adjustable KW suspension, stiffer decrease arm bushings, pillow ball joints on the entrance management arms and inflexible aluminium rear subframe mounts. The Closing Version additionally advantages from even stiffer anti-roll bars, entrance cowl brace, rear underfloor brace and rear crossbar, together with a brand new entrance underfloor brace.
On the surface, the Closing Version sports activities an upgraded carbon fibre aero package deal honed in Toyota Gazoo Racing’s Cologne wind tunnel in Germany. An aggressive splitter, flics and centre flap on the entrance are balanced out by a sizeable GT4-inspired swan-neck rear wing, once more optimising downforce and drag. There’s additionally a carbon fibre bonnet vent that improves cooling when the insert is eliminated.
Sitting in any respect 4 corners are new light-weight cast alloys which are an inch greater on the rear (measuring 20 inches in diameter), shod with track-ready Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tyres which are 10% wider than inventory. Nestled inside them are drilled floating brake discs, clamped by extra aggressive pads on the entrance and utilising stainless-steel brake hoses for extra constant braking really feel.
Inside, the Closing Version is ready aside by scrumptious Recaro Podium CF carbon buckets with Alcantara-wrapped seat pads, with the motive force’s seat colored crimson to intensify the automotive’s driver-focused nature. A smattering of different Alcantara items embody the steering wheel, door trim, centre console kneepads, armrest, shifter boot and dashboard centre panel, whereas carbon scuff plates have additionally been added.
Are you upset that the GR Supra is ending manufacturing quickly? Or are you glad that this “pretend” Toyota sports activities automotive is being put to pasture? Hold forth within the feedback after the soar. Both approach, Toyota has already teased a next-generation mannequin, so watch this area…
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