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2025 Toyota GR Supra Drops 4-Cylinder Option

Toyota is only changing one significant thing about the Toyota GR Supra for the 2025 model year. However, that small change will have a big impact on sports car shoppers.

Buyers of the 2024 Supra have a choice of two engines: a 2.0-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder making 255 horsepower or a 3.0-liter turbocharged 6-cylinder making 382 hp.

For 2025, Toyota will drop the smaller engine.

On paper, that dramatically raises the coupe’s price. The 2024 model starts at $47,535 (including a mandatory $1,095 delivery fee). The 2025 model will start at $57,345 – a whopping $9,810 increase. But the price change is partly an illusion.

The least expensive 6-cylinder model goes for $56,495 in 2024. That’s just an $850 increase for the equivalent model.

Change Puts the Supra in Odd Company

The change cements the GR86 as Toyota’s one sub-$40,000 sports coupe. The GR Supra is also now decidedly more expensive than the Nissan Z and most Ford Mustang variants.

But it remains less expensive than sports coupes from luxury marques — not truly a rival for the Porsche Cayman or Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, either. It now stands alone as a unique passion project for Toyota (and Toyoda — Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda has long championed the car behind the scenes).

The change may also signal the impending end of the revived Supra. Automakers often simplify production in a car’s last year or two on the market.

The current Supra is built in partnership with BMW and shares most of its parts with the BMW Z4 convertible. That makes production a complex matter and has always made this Supra seem like it might be a short-term affair.

Toyota sold fewer than 2,700 examples of the 2-door in the United States in 2023. The GR86 easily outsold it, with more than 11,000 of those going home with shoppers the same year.

Supra cars will remain on dealer lots for the 2025 model year. They’ll be available in two trim levels: 3.0 and 3.0 Premium. Buyers can choose between a 6-speed manual transmission or an 8-speed automatic at no additional cost.

A third variant is likely coming. Multiple outlets report that camouflaged Supra prototypes with enormous rear wings have been spotted in testing at Germany’s Nürburgring testing track.

2025 Toyota GR Supra Pricing

Trim Level MSRP + $1,095 Destination Charge
3.0 $57,345
3.0 Premium $60,495

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