Currently reading: Toyota GR Supra removed from sale in UK

Sports coupé comes off price list after four years as order allocation maxes out

The Toyota GR Supra has been taken off sale in the UK, with no indication of when it will return. 

The sports car was recently removed from the Japanese brand's website, which now tells customers that the sports coupé is "currently unavailable". 

Toyota says it has reached the maximum allocation for orders this year. Autocar understands the Japanese firm has not yet decided when the Supra will return to market, but it declined to comment further.

Before it went off sale, the Supra was available with a choice of a 2.0-litre four-cylinder petrol engine or a 3.0-litre straight six, both sourced from BMW

Recently, a high-performance variant of the Supra, likely to be called the GRMN, was spotted testing on the Nürburgring. It will reportedly bring a significant increase in power from the same straight six as the BMW M2 and a tighter, more composed chassis.

Toyota has yet to give any official details of this new version, nor has it been confirmed for global sale. 

The Supra's removal now leaves the GR86 as the only Toyota sports car on sale in the UK, the order list for which was recently reopened because of high demand. The Toyota GR Yaris hot hatch is currently available from stock only. 

Toyota has said it has no immediate plans to permanently phase out its combustion sports cars.

Toyota GR manager Masahito Watanabe recently told Autocar that the firm doesn't want to "give up" on combustion, with the sub-brand planning to use hydrogen as a lifeline for piston engines once infrastructural improvements occur.

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Toyota recently unveiled the FT-Se concept to preview GR's first electric car as part of its multifaceted approach to propulsion, which will involve hybrid, hydrogen and electric powertrains. 

Watanabe told Autocar: "As you see in the [FT-Se], we still see high possibility for battery EVs, but what we want to do is pursue the multi-pathway [approach] that we've been seeing in motorsports and sports cars in general."

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MassDamper 21 December 2023

As I’ve mentioned elsewhere on Autocar, it’s been unavailable on the Toyota UK’s website for several weeks.

Toyota have been the darlings of the UK car mags/sites the last few years with the GR Yaris and 86 but maybe UK customers are getting fed up with being treated like fools.

The Supra’s expensive and we don’t even get the more powerful 3L engine that the US/Japan get.

The Yaris got snapped up by flippers, the used prices got stupid (which the dealers joined in with) and now there are several near me in South Wales stuck at dealers. Who’d want to risk buying something that’s been thrashed for several thousand miles and flipped?

I put my name down for an 86 when it first came out but no luck and Toyota said “no more”. Lo and behold this summer they released another lot (more expensive of course); I was contacted, but was no longer in a position to purchase one. It’s starting to look like they’ve reached the end of the waiting list and they’re still stuck with unsold stock. After the first lot went potential buyers would have bought something else.

ianp55 21 December 2023

The latest Supra has never been a great sales success it's never sold more than 1000 units per model year in Europe since it's introduction,it's quite expensive as well £50k for the entry level two litre isn't competitive against the A110 & Cayman. It's odd that the Supra is priced above it's sibling the BMW Z4 which is much cheaper plus it's a convertible as well. 

Saucerer 21 December 2023
Doesn't surprise me really. Boxster and Cayman apart, interest in this class of sports car has dwindled massively. Mercedes didn't replace the SLK, Audi has dropped the TT, there's still no new RX7 and, in the UK, the latest Nissan Z isn't available. I doubt being simply a BMW Z4 with just a different coupe body helped the Supra's case either.