- Toyota is revising the GR86 sports car for 2024 and adding a Trueno Edition.
- The special-edition model is meant to evoke the AE86 Corolla (a.k.a. Sprinter Trueno) from the 1980s.
- A new Performance package adds Sachs dampers and Brembo brakes.
Toyota has offered many special-edition versions of its 86 sports car over the years, and the latest for the 2024 GR86 is meant to hark back to the legendary AE86 Sprinter Trueno from the 1980s. It’s called the Trueno Edition and it comes with a two-tone color scheme, special badges, and some interior upgrades. There’s also a newly available Performance package available for the GR86, plus some new features and other tweaks for the new model year.
The Trueno Edition is available in either white or red and with either the standard six-speed manual transmission or the optional six-speed automatic. It features a black hood, black stripes on the side, a black duckbill spoiler, and black trim for the door handles and mirrors. You’ll find Trueno badges at the front and rear, and there’s a number plate on the dash commemorating it as one of 860 units for the U.S. market. The interior has red leather accents and red stitching, plus Trueno logos for the shift knob and floor mats.
A new Performance package is standard on the Trueno and optional for other 2024 GR86 models. It includes Sachs dampers and Brembo brakes with larger-diameter rotors than the standard car; they measure 12.8 inches in front and 12.4 inches in the rear, compared with 11.6 and 11.4 inches on the standard car. This package will be a dealer-installed option, and Toyota even says it will offer the package as a retrofit for existing 2022 and 2023 GR86 owners so long as the car is equipped with 18-inch wheels.
Manual-transmission GR86 models now have many of the driver-assist systems that were previously available only on automatic-transmission cars. The stick-shift cars now come with adaptive cruise control, lane-departure warning, automatic emergency braking, and a few other features.
Toyota hasn’t yet released pricing for the 2024 GR86 and its new options, but we expect to find out more before it goes on sale later this year.
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Despite being raised on a steady diet of base-model Hondas and Toyotas—or perhaps because of it—Joey Capparella nonetheless cultivated an obsession for the automotive industry throughout his childhood in Nashville, Tennessee. He found a way to write about cars for the school newspaper during his college years at Rice University, which eventually led him to move to Ann Arbor, Michigan, for his first professional auto-writing gig at Automobile Magazine. He has been part of the Car and Driver team since 2016 and now lives in New York City.
