Toyota’s stepping into family tree — researching the household historical past, in all probability gonna do a kind of 23andMe issues.

Final yr, the model gave the world a Nineteen Eighties throwback for the 4Runner’s fortieth anniversary.

This week, it celebrated the Supra’s forty fifth with a Nineteen Nineties-inspired version.

Now, it’s digging just a little deeper and extra obscure. The 2024 Toyota GR86 Trueno Version honors a automobile few bear in mind except they go digging within the archives. However somebody at Toyota is outwardly sleuthing and loving it.

A Legend to Drifters

The Toyota Sprinter Trueno was a 2-door hatchback derived from the Corolla with a number of efficiency components to show it into one of many unique sizzling hatches. If the title isn’t acquainted to you, that’s as a result of it by no means bought effectively within the U.S., the place it was folded again into the Corolla lineup after a quick look within the Nineteen Eighties.

However it has a cult following as one of many first automobiles distinguished within the drifting scene. The mid-Nineteen Eighties model had the inner code title AE86 at Toyota, and for those who’ve been paying consideration, you simply found out the place we’re going.

Toyota will honor the traditional sprinter with a 2024 GR86 Trueno Version.

Toyota says, “the GR86 is acknowledged by many lovers as Toyota’s non secular successor to the AE86.”

Restricted Version

The corporate will construct simply 860 copies for the U.S. market. Toyota will provide them in crimson or white, with a Nineteen Eighties-inspired graphics bundle together with a thick black hood stripe and two thick stripes on the doorways. The mirror caps and duckbill spoiler put on the identical black. They’ll trip on model-specific 18-inch alloy wheels.

Toyota says pricing can be out there “later this yr.” The present Toyota GR86 begins at $28,400.

Inside, crimson and black fake suede and leather-based seats proceed the colour scheme.

New Efficiency Components for Each GR86 

The Trueno Version comes with a brand new Efficiency Bundle that can be optionally available on each GR86. It features a new set of ZF Sachs dampers, Brembo brake calipers, and new suspension tuning from Toyota’s Gazoo Racing unit. Surprisingly, Toyota says the package will even be out there as an improve to present 2022 and 2023 GR86 fashions.