Toyota GR Supra production to end in 2025 – last product update, 435 PS A90 Final Edition released
Time to shed a tear for Japan’s most misunderstood sports car, the Toyota GR Supra. After six years, production of this BMW joint venture product is set to conclude in 2025 at the Magna Steyr plant in Graz, Austria – but not before one last hurrah.
Heading into its final model year, the fifth-generation Supra receives several mechanical upgrades to further improve its considerable dynamic capabilities. These include revised adaptive dampers, stiffer front anti-roll bar (mounted on reinforced aluminium links front and rear), front control arm bushings, rear subframe mounts and rear underfloor bracing, and retuned electric power steering.
The changes – which also include a retuned active rear differential to reduce understeer – serve to improve control, increase body rigidity and feedback from the road surface, and deliver more direct steering feel, Toyota claims. They add to the already impressive list of updates introduced in 2020 and 2022, which bumped up the performance and handling of the two-door, two-seater coupé.
Exterior mods include a ducktail carbon fibre rear spoiler, joining forces with new front wheel arch flaps and higher front tyre spats to optimise aerodynamic balance and downforce. The 19-inch multi-spoke forged aluminium wheels that were introduced in 2022 gain a matte black finish and feature increased camber to improve grip; they hide larger Brembo front brake discs. Inside, the Supra gains GR-branded genuine leather and Alcantara upholstery, along with red seatbelts and manual gearknob ring.
Only the straight-six model is being carried over into 2025 (as there’s no mention of the four-cylinder version), 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 5,000 rpm. Buyers retain the choice of either an eight-speed ZF automatic gearbox or a six-speed manual, the latter also added in 2022.
And that’s not all – Toyota is also making just 300 units of the extra-special A90 Final Edition. Far from being a mere colour and trim package as previous limited editions were, this is a proper performance model that provides a stirring send off.
Despite utilising the same B58 six-pot – and not the M3/M4’s S58 twin-turbo unit as previously rumoured – some fettling has freed up some extra horses. Thanks to a redesigned intake 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 more, the Final Edition is only offered with the honest-to-goodness row-your-own transmission.
Other tweaks improve the car’s performance on track, including a baffled oil pan and increased cooling as a result of a strengthened radiator fan, a new sub-radiator and enlarged rear differential cover cooling fins. An Akrapovič titanium rear muffler has also been fitted to give the Final Edition a suitably rorty exhaust note.
Meanwhile, the upgraded chassis incorporates several goodies from the GT4 racer, such as adjustable KW suspension, stiffer lower arm bushings, pillow ball joints on the front control arms and rigid aluminium rear subframe mounts. The Final Edition also benefits from even stiffer anti-roll bars, front cowl brace, rear underfloor brace and rear crossbar, along with a new front underfloor brace.
On the outside, the Final Edition sports an upgraded carbon fibre aero package honed in Toyota Gazoo Racing’s Cologne wind tunnel in Germany. An aggressive splitter, flics and centre flap at the front are balanced out by a sizeable GT4-inspired swan-neck rear wing, again optimising downforce and drag. There’s also a carbon fibre bonnet vent that improves cooling when the insert is removed.
Sitting at all four corners are new lightweight forged alloys that are an inch bigger at the rear (measuring 20 inches in diameter), shod with track-ready Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tyres that are 10% wider than stock. Nestled within them are drilled floating brake discs, clamped by more aggressive pads at the front and utilising stainless steel brake hoses for more consistent braking feel.
Inside, the Final Edition is set apart through delicious Recaro Podium CF carbon buckets with Alcantara-wrapped seat pads, with the driver’s seat coloured red to accentuate the car’s driver-focused nature. A smattering of other Alcantara pieces include the steering wheel, door trim, centre console kneepads, armrest, shifter boot and dashboard centre panel, while carbon scuff plates have also been added.
Are you upset that the GR Supra is ending production soon? Or are you glad that this “fake” Toyota sports car is being put to pasture? Sound off in the comments after the jump. Either way, Toyota has already teased a next-generation model, so watch this space…
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