2025 Toyota Supra Final Edition: Limited-run farewell off limits for Australia

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2025 Toyota Supra Final Edition: Limited-run farewell off limits for Australia

The fifth-generation ‘A90’ Toyota Supra will go out of production in 2025, but not without being sent off by a limited-edition, track-focused swansong.

Revealed overnight, the manual-only Toyota Supra A90 Final Edition will be limited to just 300 examples globally – none of which are coming to Australia, with only European showrooms confirmed to receive the final examples of the brand’s halo sports car.

Australia will instead get the Supra Track Edition, which features a number of handling and cosmetic upgrades but not the significant power and torque increases of the Final Edition.

The departure of the Supra will come approximately a year before production of the BMW Z4 upon which it’s based will reportedly wrap up at the Magna Steyr plant in Austria, where both models are made.

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Toyota’s 2025 end of production date for the Supra also leaves questions over the brand’s plans to join Australia’s Supercars Championship in 2026.

At least two teams (Walkinshaw Andretti United and a yet-to-be-confirmed squad) are expected to run the A90 Supra, which has been shown off by Toyota in digital renderings and a full-size clay model.

Toyota Australia vice president of sales, marketing and franchise operations, Sean Hanley, said in October in response to the Supra bowing out after the A90 ends production: “There is no plan to discontinue the Supra brand in this car company. I know that.

“BMW is not Toyota. The notion that Supra is stopping is purely speculative,” Mr Hanley said.

“And, quite frankly, I have no expectation, sitting here today, that the Supra brand will disappear. At all.”

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It was previously expected that what is now known as the Supra Final Edition would be called the Supra GRMN (Gazoo Racing, Meisters of the Nürburgring), which had been spied testing at the German circuit.

Headlining the Supra Final Edition is its upgraded single-turbo 3.0-litre six-cylinder engine, which now produces 320kW and 570Nm – a 35kW/70Nm bump on Australian and Japanese versions of the Supra, and 70kW/70Nm more than European examples.

This makes the Supra Final Edition the most powerful factory-built vehicle to use BMW’s ‘B58’ engine, and puts Toyota’s sports car close to the outputs of the twin-turbo ‘S58’, which in the new M2 produces 353kW and 550Nm in Australia.

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Power continues to be sent to the rear wheels, though only through a six-speed manual, with the standard eight-speed torque-converter automatic not available in the Final Edition. Rumours that it would be paired with a seven-speed dual-clutch have not come to fruition.

Toyota hasn’t just wound up the engine with no supporting modifications. Instead it’s now fitted with a baffle plate (to prevent oil starvation while cornering), better cooling (stronger radiator fan, additional sub-radiator, larger differential fins), a tweaked electronic differential and a titanium Akrapovič muffler.

The engine hasn’t been the only focus of the Final Edition’s upgrades, with larger Brembo four-piston front brake calipers and higher-grip brake pads, plus floating calipers all round. There’s also stainless steel brake lines to deliver a firmer pedal feel.

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A set of forged aluminium wheels, measuring 19 inches in diameter at the front and 20 inches at the rear, sit in front of the upgraded brakes and are wrapped in wider Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tyres.

German specialist KW’s adjustable dampers from the Supra GT4 have been fitted to the Final Edition, as have stronger rubber bushings, pillow ball mounts and rigid aluminium mounts, all of which Toyota claims to result in more precise handling.

Additional underbody bracing has helped to strengthen the Supra’s body rigidity, while there’s more camber at the front and rear, plus a revised electric power steering tune.

The Final Edition isn’t just about changes under the skin, with the team responsible for the Supra GT4 using its wind tunnel to develop a carbon-fibre front spoiler and canards, vented bonnet and swan-neck rear wing to increase downforce with a minimal drag increase.

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Inside, Toyota has fitted carbon-fibre backed, Alcantara Recaro Podium seats to the Supra – with red Alcantara for the driver, and black for the passenger – which are aimed at better holding the driver in place while cornering at high speed.

The Alcantara treatment continues on the steering wheel, door trim, centre console, arm rest, shift boot and centre instrument panel. Matching red seatbelts and carbon-fibre scuff plates also feature.

Toyota is yet to announce overseas pricing for the Supra A90 Final Edition, which is expected to arrive in Europe from mid-2025.

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