Hopped-up coupe is rumored to be fitted with the 473 hp engine and manual transmission from the base BMW M3, but might it get the 453 hp M2 motor instead?
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by Chris Chilton
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The Toyota GR Supra needed a boost ever since Nissan’s Z arrived to steal its thunder, courtesy of a more powerful engine and lower price tag. And just this summer, Nissan revealed a hotter Nismo Z, a car Toyota had no answer for, though that’s about to change.
We spied the new hardcore GRMN Supra on test in Germany earlier this week, but the tough-looking coupe has us so excited that we couldn’t pass up an opportunity to give it some more screen time when a fresh set of pictures landed in our inbox today.
They show the super-Supra again strutting its stuff at the Nurburgring and on the fast, flowing roads that surround the famous track. The minimal disguise consists of wrap on the nose and upper tail that’s in the unique black, red, white, and gray colors Toyota uses for all of its GR prototypes, but even that mish-mash of colors can’t prevent us from picking out the canards and front splitter, or the motorsport-style rear spoiler.
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And the wrap does nothing to obscure how slammed this thing looks. The regular GR Supra definitely doesn’t ride this low, suggesting that the Gazoo Racing engineers have been busy working on the suspension, too. The images also show what looks like an uprated brake package featuring drilled, two-piece floating rotors and sticky Michelin Pilot Cup 2 rubber.
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The GRMN name stands for Gazoo Racing, Masters of the Nurburgring, but in this case, the M might just as well stand for BMW M, if the rumors are true. The Supra is based on the same platform as the BMW Z4 and shares its 382 hp (387 PS) 3.0-liter engine with the Z4 M40i. But while BMW doesn’t offer the Z4 with a manual gearbox and never bothered creating a full M variant, Toyota added a manual option to the Supra in 2022 and is now thought to be pinching one of BMW’s M powerplants for the GRMN coupe.
We’ve previously speculated that Toyota will adopt the 473 hp (480 PS) engine from the base BMW M3 and mate it with a choice of six-speed manual and eight-speed automatic transmissions, just like the non-Competition M4 does. But thinking about it again, perhaps it’s more likely that BMW would only give Toyota access to the slightly milder 453 hp (460 PS) version of the motor from the M2. Why? The 3.0 Supra and M240i already share the same 382 hp power output and the M2 and GRMN Supra will effectively be scrapping over the same buyers, so why would BMW let Toyota get the upper hand?
If that M3 theory is true, the GRMN would still be rated at 71 hp (72 PS) more than the existing 3.0-liter Supra. It would also get 20 lb-ft (27 Nm) more torque, the M2 powertrain making the same 406 lb-ft (550 Nm) as the M3 despite its lower power output. What do you think the GRMN has under the hood?
