Toyota’s GR Sub-Brand Is Committed to Gasoline and Stick Shifts

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Toyota’s GR Sub-Brand Is Committed to Gasoline and Stick Shifts

Toyota currently sells four cars with its relatively new GR performance badge globally, and all four are available with a six-speed manual transmission. That makes Toyota an oddity even among brands selling performance cars — good news for enthusiasts in an era where even

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are not expected to be long for this world. Better still, that plan is apparently not going to change any time soon.

According to quotes from *********** Toyota executive Sean Hanley shared by

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, “combustion engines and manual transmissions will be around for a long, long time” at the performance division. Hanley added that GR will be “about the sounds, about the smells and the feel of a combustion engine – that snap, crackle and pop we all love so much.”

This does not necessarily mean that GR will not get into more modern technologies. The CarSales report notes Toyota’s idea of internal combustion could eventually mean

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rather than typical gasoline-powered engines. Hanley also suggests that the brand could build an EV in the future, too.

Toyota still has not officially announced any plans to expand its GR lineup, but

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have suggested that the brand has wanted to add successors to both the Celica and MR2 since at least 2018. Recent rumors have also suggested that Toyota could be

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. The brand also presented an

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, both of which could hint at a future production car.

No matter what path Toyota chooses to take, the arrival of one or more new GR-branded sports cars may be imminent. The internal combustion options could also come with the manual transmissions mentioned by Hanley. All would be welcome.

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