2022 Toyota GR Supra 3.0T – Re-Driven Empowered for Higher Love

IN MARKET FOR : Two-seat high performance sport coupe that is master of both street and track

IN NEED OF: Blistering turbocharged thrust

GLAD TO HAVE: Daily driveable comfort and fuel economy

DON’T MIND: Volume brand name on a re-wrap of luxury make’s build

READY FOR: Hordes of preteens wanting to pose with the ride

CAN LIVE WITHOUT: Premium German brand price

Then prepare to share in a Roadblazing.com re-drive in the 2022 Toyota GR Supra 3.0T DB 23 performance sports coupe.

2022 Toyota GR Supra 3.0T  Driving Hits: (vs. 2020 Toyota Supra GR 3.0T in parenthesis)

• 382 hp, 365 lb-ft @ 1600 rpm twin-cam intercooled turbocharged gas inline-6 cylinder BMW B58B30O1 engine (new for 2021 MY, replaced B58B30C)
• +47 horsepower (+14% vs. B58B30C engine), +3 lb-ft torque

• BMW specific ZF 8-speed torque converter planetary automatic transmission
• Rear-wheel drive, active helical dual clutch locking limited slip differential 

• 3181 lbs. curb weight = 219 lbs. < GR Supra 3.0T I-6
• Kick in the seat of the pants acceleration
• Active exhaust bark announces inline-6 engine

• 8-speed transmission features rapid locking torque converter, likes low gears, and is calibrated for on demand engine braking
• Steering wheel magnesium dorsal shift paddles react briskly
• Drive Modes: Normal, Sport, Sport Plus, the latter allowing more inner wheel slippage from the electronic limited slip rear differential
• Progressively weighted razor accurate steering winding
• Controllable oversteer out of fast switchbacks
• Prodigious lateral adhesion from 19″ alloy Michelin Pilot Super Sport run flat rubber, staggered front to rear tread width for reduced understeer
• Brembo four piston fixed caliper front brakes
• Adaptive electronic damping dispatches abruptness for a grand touring ride

• 28 miles per gallon combined driving, 403 miles estimated highway range, 91 AKI unleaded gasoline
• Solid contract assembly by Magna Steyr in Austria
• Not much suspension or wind sound heard inside cabin

2022 Toyota Supra 3.0T Driving Misses:

• Tramline on grooved concrete roadway
• Stiffer ride from 35- aspect ratio rubber (vs. 2021 Toyota GR Supra 2.0T)
• Full wheel well cladding amplifies stones picked up by the Michelins
• Windows, part retracted, wind buffeting

What the 2022 Toyota Supra 3.0T Has Got:

• From $44,085 (incl. destination) base 2022 Toyota GR Supra 2.0T w/ 8-speed automatic transmission. As tested 2022 Toyota GR Supra 3.0T Premium 8-speed automatic transmission = $57,920.
  
• 2-seat high performance sports coupe
• Rocket car low slung, long hood, Coke bottle fuselage, massive fenders & flared rear quarter panels

• Flesh, bones, organs courtesy of BMW Z4
• Skin drawn & bones tuned by Toyota’s Gazoo Racing division
• Precision finished positive action switchgear, with artful cabin panel shapes, soft materials throughout
• Carbon fiber interior trim
• Long cargo bay w/ liftgate access; Cargo bay privacy lid

• Plentiful standard feature set
  • Power folding, driver’s self-dimming, reverse auto tilting, heated side mirrors
  • Auto dimming rear view mirror + remote garage door transmitter
  • Bi-LED headlamps, 6-segment adaptive swiveling; White LED DRLs; Amber LED directionals
  • Keyless entry, Push button ignition
  • Cruise control
  • Power windows, express down x 2
  • 2-zone automatic climate control
  • 14-way power heated Alcantara + leather sport bucket seats including knee lift, 4-way lumbar & side bolster, driver’s 2 position memory

• • Bluetooth wireless communications and music stream
  • 8.0″-inch TFT single dial gauge instrument cluster w/ LED segments
  • 8.8″-inch remote knob Supra Command triple pane landscape LCD infotainment display
  • 10 speaker, 205W performance streaming audio
• Standard safety and driver assistance
  • 8 SRS airbags; rigid BMW CLAR modular platform; +1 fore, lateral view, +/- rear view
  • STD: Forward Collision avoidance w/ pedestrian & cyclist detection braking, Lane keep assist, Auto high beam headlamps; Speed limit warning; E-Parking brake + traction mode
  • OPT (Dynamic Assist Pkg., incl. on tester): Adaptive cruise control w/ stop & go; Blind spot monitor; Rear cross traffic alert + braking; Park distance warning, fore & rear + braking
• 3 year / 36,000 miles bumper to bumper, 5 yrs / 60k mi. powertrain warranty includes 2 yr. / 25k mi. maintenance

What the 2022 Toyota Supra 3.0T Has Not (or Not Preferred):

• No Android Auto projection, Apple Car Play = optional
• Low entry and exit body position
• Long hood & tall cowl challenges forward view
• Heavy frameless window coupe doors
• No center armrest storage, exposed wireless device shelf too short for phablets

Standout Cool Features included on tested 2022 Toyota GR Supra 3.0T Premium:

• Technology Package (optional):
  
  • Smart Key approach access; Leather seats, heated; Heads Up Display
  • 8.8″-inch touch + remote knob Supra Command triple pane landscape LCD infotainment display; HDD GPS voice command, voice guidance native navigation

• • Supra Connected Services up to 4 year trial of real time traffic, weather, news, concierge
  • JBL 12 speaker, 500W, 8 channel Clari-Fi DSP streaming premium audio
  • Wireless Apple Car Play projection & Qi wireless phone charging pad
• Turbulence Gray color

ROADBLAZING.COM’s SUMMATION:

2021 Toyota GR Supra 3.0T = Certifiable pinup among high performance sports cars acquires potent yet parsimonious B58B30O1 powerplant.

Contributing Editor: T. Paluch

SEE ROADBLAZING.COM’s COMPLETE REVIEW AND GALLERY OF THE 2020 TOYOTA SUPRA GR 3.0T BELOW

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WHAT: 2020 Toyota GR Supra, 2-person sports coupe, designated J29 = the 5th model to bear the superlative.

 

Standard Power*: longitudinal intercooled twin-scroll turbocharged 3.0L DOHC 24V DI gas I-6 = 335 hp/ 365 lb-ft @ 1600 rpm + 8-spd. torque converter planetary transmission w/ shift paddles, driving rear wheels.

Power to Weight ratio compared to: Chevrolet Corvette C8; Porsche Cayman S, Jaguar F-Type P380

*available std. in MY 2021: longitudinal intercooled twin-scroll turbocharged 2.0L DOHC 16V DI gas I-4 = 255 hp/ 295 lb-ft @ 1600 rpm (3.0T I-6, with power bump to 382 hp, will be optional)

(A) STYLING DIFFERENCE(S): All 4 previous Supra models were available as 2+2 passenger hatchbacks. The last A80 model shared common stampings with the Lexus SC 300 /400. Now a sibling of BMW‘s G29 Z4 roadster, the latest Supra is exclusively 2-seater coupe, but retains that liftback heritage.

 

PENNA TURBINA: The new Supra is an unabashed nod to the late 1960’s 2000GT grand tourer, then Japan’s Bond- ian answer to the Jaguar E-Type. Roadblazing.com spies a smattering of Fiat Turbina concept‘s bold rear quarters. The production Supra has remained astonishingly faithful to the 2014 FT-1 Concept. Ironically it turns out that Nobuo Nakamura’s design is more reminiscent of fellow countryman Joji Nagashima’s original E36/7 Z3‘s  retro roadster’s beak, than is the current Z4.

Witness a land speed record setter’s slender Coke-bottle fuselage. The twin cowl roof and low slung, long clamshell hood terminate in a first rounded, then pointed nose. Sans grille, three dark honeycomb air inlets occupy most of lower fascia with corner folds and a lower splitter. Lighting is a multi-segmented LED with prominent alternating amber directional / white DRL lower brow.

The windsceen, with thick A-pillars slants sharply. Integral lower body flaring rises to the rear wheel arches. A necessarily high beltline tapers with a prominent Hofmeister angled B-pillar. More powerful and equally prurient are the wide splayed rear quarter haunches, which seem to amplify ever morsel of road stone thrown into the wheel wells.  Darkened competition-style side skirts are continued at the lower rear fasia.

Out aft, no less explicit is a pinched ducktail spoiler. It rises from a widened liftgate decklid. Lateral lollipop LED taillamps stretch out wide to corner folds. A T-shaped gloss black lower fascia cradles a bumped out mid bumper, fitting polished dual corner exhaust tips.

WHY: Successor to Tokyo Drift king is exclusively 2 seater and highly Bavarian

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