Toyota has updated the GR86 — and left the price tag untouched. The entry-level RC with the six-speed “manual” still costs 2,936,000 yen, and the range-topping RZ with the automatic asks 3,616,000 yen. Exactly the same figures sat in the Japanese price list back in 2024. Orders open on August 28.
The headline change is EyeSight, which has finally gone three-eyed. Instead of the old pair of cameras, the coupe now carries a wide-angle stereo unit plus an extra ultra-wide mono camera. That gives the low-slung car exactly what it always lacked — vision. It does not turn the system into an autopilot: watching the road is still up to the driver.
Then come the things that read like trivia in a press release and are felt from behind the wheel straight away. The engineers retuned the throttle response and the electric power steering. On a wet or snow-covered road, metering the traction should get easier, and in fast corners the car promises to hold the chosen line more precisely.
And now about the scale of the work. The manual gearbox was reworked by literally half a millimeter: the chamfer of the shift interlock was widened by roughly 0.5 mm so that the five-to-four downshift before a corner goes in more willingly. Half a millimeter. Toyota builds the GR Yaris updates out of exactly the same motorsport-borrowed details.
The engine was not touched at all. The Japanese GR86 keeps the naturally aspirated 2.4-liter boxer with 235 PS and 250 Nm, rear-wheel drive and a six-speed manual or an automatic. WLTC fuel consumption runs from 8.3 to 8.5 l/100 km depending on the version.
Solid Gray is back in the palette — the very grey that survived on the Toyota 86 for only about half a year from 2017. The RZ trim gets less reflective black switches, and in the black-and-red cabin the red accents now wrap around the driver. The racing GR86 Cup Car Basic has finally been given an automatic, and production of those cars starts in December 2026.
