The four-cylinder Toyota Supra is being banned, meaning you can only use six cylinders. Huzzah!
It’s starting to look like the Toyota Supra is at the end of its rope. And that’s a shame, because it is actually one of the best sports cars of the moment. The GR Supra, developed together with BMW, is correct in terms of recipe, including of course the wonderful B58 inline six from BMW. And because the costs could be split, you can still afford a Supra if you do your best! In addition, the model is now also available with the combination of manual gearbox and six-in-line.
Four cylinder
To reduce costs a little further, there was also the four-cylinder (B48B20) just like the BMW Z4 sDrive20i and 30i. With 258 hp it’s no slouch, but you actually just want that six-cylinder engine, right? What was successful with the B48 was to reduce the starting price a bit, which is nice in markets such as the Netherlands (where the four-cylinder version is almost 20,000 euros cheaper).
In markets where the additional cost is less than 8,000 euros, such as the US, the upgrade to the six-cylinder is actually a no-brainer for the Toyota GR Supra. When the four-cylinder was the only one with a manual gearbox, it might have been great for the #savethemanuals crowd, but now that the combination of six-in-line and manual gearbox is available, they will get their money’s worth. So Toyota makes a somewhat expected, but in the current spirit of the times, nice decision: the B48B20 can no longer be ordered in the US from model year 2025.
Only six cylinders
While you can still choose between the 2.0, 3.0, 3.0 Premium and 45th Anniversary Editions, the former and the latter will expire with the 2025 model year (July 1, 2024, the new model year starts in the US). Then all the choices you can make for the Toyota GR Supra are based on decoration, but the engine remains the same. You can choose between manual or automatic transmission.
Premium
And according to some, it doesn’t get more premium than a BMW engine in a rear-wheel drive coupe, so the Toyota GR Supra is already as premium as it gets. Yet the 3.0 Premium takes it up a notch with the optional choice of ‘hazelnut leather upholstery’. Then the steering wheel, seats and centre console are covered in, er, hazelnut leather. Incidentally, it’s not a facelift, but Toyota has still been fiddling with the car’s tuning, making the driving experience ‘a bit better’. According to Toyota.
More expensive
Unfortunately, that does cost a bit, namely $850. The price of the updated Toyota GR Supra increases from $55,400 to $56,250. The price of the Premium also increases by about that much money to $59,400. The 2.0 cost $46,400, which increases the absolute starting price of the Supra by almost $10,000. But it seems to us that this choice would not have been made if the four-cylinder had not been skipped en masse.
