{"id":223134,"date":"2022-04-15T14:48:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T18:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=223134"},"modified":"2022-04-15T14:48:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T18:48:16","slug":"toyota-supra-getting-a-third-pedal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2022\/04\/toyota-supra-getting-a-third-pedal\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota Supra Getting a Third Pedal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Toyota Supra fans got exciting news Friday morning when the automaker suggested in a tweet that sports coupe appears to be getting the manual transmission diehards have been clamoring for since the new version arrived in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wanna make this just a little bit more fun to drive: add a manual transmission, which appears to be happening.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDid you think we were done? Stay tuned \u2026 #Supra #Manual #LetsGoPlaces,\u201d the company tweeted with a picture of three pedals<\/a><\/u><\/strong>: one accelerator, one brake and what appears to be a clutch pedal. Toyota\u2019s public relations folks in Detroit didn\u2019t elaborate on the plan with TheDetroitBureau, offering only, \u201cSupra with manual transmission is coming to U.S. More details to come.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The news comes on the heels of the company\u2019s debut of the 2023 GR Corolla, which comes with a 6-speed manual. There\u2019s no word if the two vehicles will share the same 6-speed gearbox \u2014 or even could. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toyota\u2019s bringing the speed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Japanese automaker\u2019s been adding more performance variants to its line-up during the past few years. The GR Corolla, which was developed by Toyota\u2019s Gazoo Racing team, is the fourth GR model the automaker\u2019s developed, following the GR 86, GR Supra and GR Yaris, which isn\u2019t available in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the case of the GR Corolla, the company\u2019s developed an honest-to-goodness hot hatch<\/a><\/u><\/strong>. The new five-door model comes through with more aggressive styling, a 300-horsepower engine and a tunable all-wheel-drive system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The numbers are impressive, a 1.6-liter 3-cylinder engine punching out 300 hp and 273 pound-feet of torque. The stunning numbers are a result of clever engineering. The GR Corolla features a triple exhaust that reduces back pressure and ups the horsepower. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 300 hp body slams the newly redesigned Subaru WRX and barely misses the 306 hp and 295 lb-ft delivered by the Honda Civic Type-R. (Toyota has not released 0-60 times.) Two versions of the GR Corolla will be offered, including the base \u201cCore,\u201d and the more aggressively equipped GR Corolla Circuit Edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supra\u2019s gotten updates<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While the manual transmission is a welcome addition, the company didn\u2019t exactly drag it out of mothballs a few years back and do nothing else. The company added to GR Supra models for 2021: the GR Supra 2.0<\/a><\/u><\/strong> and GR Supra 3.0 Premium<\/a><\/u><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2.0 gets fitted with a 2.0-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder engine that generates 255 horsepower and 295 pound-feet of torque, while the 3.0 premium is powered by a twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter inline-6-cylinder engine rated at 382 hp and 368 lb-ft of torque. An 8-speed automatic transmission, and rear-wheel drive are standard on all models. Premium fuel is required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, that inline-6 is gonna be a whole more fun (read: tossable) with a 6-speed manual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toyota Supra fans got exciting news Friday morning when the automaker suggested in a tweet that sports coupe appears to be getting the manual transmission diehards have been clamoring for since the new version arrived in 2020. TheDetroitBureau.com has more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4389,"featured_media":223138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,5,2648,969,1347,9],"tags":[5719,543,5715,5717,5718],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223142,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223134\/revisions\/223142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223134"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=223134"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=223134"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=223134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}