Toyota has gone to great lengths to fit the latest Supra with three pedals. Was it worth the effort?
Getting your hands on either is currently tough task, then, but good news awaits if your budget isn’t exactly capped. Swimming upstream with the blind determination of spawning salmon, Toyota has launched a manually shifted GR Supra. And this is no token gesture using a bunch of unused gearboxes dusted off from a forgotten parts shelf. An entirely unique transmission has been crafted in lieu of grovelling to BMW for something that’ll latch onto the 340hp 3.
A manual gearbox had apparently been lingering in the engineers’ minds, and it’s the feedback of both press and customers that’s convinced them – and more crucially, the people who dish out their budgets – to actually bring one to fruition. Life under Toyota president Akio Toyoda sounds a lot of fun, an enthusiast at the very top meaning passion projects come to life, and to hell with the profit margins.
Toyota has also fitted its ‘iMT’ rev-matching software; it’s found in the Yaris but not the GR86 and it’s very good. You can turn it off too, of course, but via a sub-menu rather than a simple button. And I was never unduly offended by its assistance. It’s always meticulously judged in its blips of throttle and, I’ll be honest, does a better job than my own size nines usually do. The shift action itself is satisfying too, if not perfect.
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