More favorable price tag?
Just like its predecessor, the Toyota GR86 has a naturally aspirated boxer engine. It sounds nice and in the GR86 it is also strong enough, but Toyota is reportedly taking a different tack with the next GR86. A change that may have a favorable effect on the Dutch price tag.
The Toyota GR86 has only been in the price lists for just over a year, so we don’t have to expect a successor for the time being. Nevertheless, it is already being discussed in Japan and a medium there received interesting information. The Japanese magazine Mag-X understands from people within Toyota that there has already been a briefing about the next generation GR86 and it was announced that it will have a completely different engine. The 2.4 four-cylinder boxer engine will be removed and a three-cylinder turbo engine will replace it.
A three-cylinder turbo that is undoubtedly even stronger than the 235 hp strong boxer that is now in the GR86? That can (at the moment) only be one block: the 1.6 that debuted in the Toyota GR Yaris. In that crazy bomb, the three-cylinder already delivers 261 hp and in big brother GR Corolla even 304 hp. Given the fact that Toyota has already installed it in the larger Corolla, it would not be an illogical step to install it in the next GR86 in due course. The CO2 emissions would then logically be a lot lower and that would of course be beneficial for the price tag here in the Netherlands. In that respect, we can only applaud it, although it is of course not much more than a rumor for the time being.
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl