The 2024 Toyota GR86 returns for one more mannequin 12 months with a brand new efficiency package deal and a particular version.

For 2024, a Trueno Version joins the sports activities coupe lineup, commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the launch of a automobile that helped encourage the GR86. Offered from 1984-1987 because the Sprinter Trueno in Japan, and because the Corolla Sport GT-S within the U.S., this was the sportiest model of the rear-wheel-drive Toyota AE86 platform.

Whereas technically an financial system automobile, not a sports activities automobile, the AE86 was prized by lovers for its nimble dealing with, tunable engines, and affordability. The AE86 Sprinter Trueno additionally helped popularize drifting through the manga and anime “Preliminary D.” Therefore the “86” in GR86.

2024 Toyota GR86 Trueno Version

Based mostly on the GR86 Premium grade, the Trueno Version takes the AE86 references additional by replicating the Nineteen Eighties automobile’s signature two-tone look with a black hood, black door handles, mirror caps, facet graphics, and a black spoiler towards white or purple paint. The particular version additionally will get black metallic 18-inch wheels.

The Trueno Version additionally will get suede seats with purple leather-based trim, purple stitching for the shifter boot and steering wheel, and an eight-speaker audio system.

Normal on the Trueno Version, and elective on different 2024 GR86 fashions, a brand new efficiency package deal provides ZF Sachs dampers and Brembo brakes, the latter with four-piston entrance and two-piston rear calipers. It may also be retrofitted to any 2022 or 2023 GR86 with 18-inch wheels.

2024 Toyota GR86 Trueno Version

The only out there engine stays a naturally aspirated 2.4-liter flat-4 making 228 hp and 184 lb-ft of torque. That energy is shipped to the rear wheels via a 6-speed handbook or a 6-speed automated transmission. Toyota quotes 0-60 mph instances of 6.1 seconds for the handbook and 6.6 seconds for the automated. A Torsen limited-slip differential is commonplace.

Driver-assist options are additionally now out there with the handbook transmission in addition to the automated. The record consists of automated emergency braking, adaptive cruise management, and automated excessive beams. As a result of it is twinned with the Subaru BRZ, the GR86 makes use of Subaru’s camera-based security suite.

Manufacturing of the 2024 Toyota GR86 Trueno Version might be restricted to 860 models for the U.S. market (similar to the 2023’s Particular Version mannequin), with deliveries scheduled to begin this winter. Pricing for all 2024 GR86 fashions might be revealed at a later date.