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Toyota GR Supra pricing and features: Manual arrives in Australia |
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There are plenty of devices in life designed to make our lives easier, especially when the job in hand is repetitive or time consuming. Electric can openers, robot vacuum cleaners and those powered coffee bean grinders allow us to save energy — and avoid boredom. Auto boxes are handy in heavy traffic, but once the roads open up and you want to be actively involved in the driving experience, using a clutch pedal and slotting a gearlever into place by yourself is arguably more fun and immersive — especially in a sports car.
After a few years on sale, the Toyota GR Supra finally allows you to do just that, with a six-speed manual option sitting alongside the existing eight-speed auto. As well as giving you a clutch pedal and a new gearlever, the Supra MT is also a little lighter than the automatic car.
In entry-level Supra trim, it weighs So, does going manual transform the driving experience? We've driven one to find out The 3. With a mph time of 4. For a start, it eliminates the occasional slow response of the automatic gearbox when setting off from stationary something that seems to blight the 2.
The Supra still handles neatly, with little body lean in the corners, but it encourages a more effortless approach when threading through bends than lighter, mid-engined rivals. The Alpine A and Porsche Cayman feel much more agile and balanced when it comes to grip and changing direction, while the GR Supra is a little less focused carrying speed through corners.
While there's plenty of road noise on the motorway, the front-mounted engine means it's more hushed than its rivals, which are mid-engine with a constant whirr behind your ears.
The interior of the Supra MT is mostly identical to every other model in the range. That means it's more useable than the A and the Cayman, with more passenger and boot space.
It also has a brilliant infotainment system based on BMW's rotary dial controlled iDrive set-up. The biggest difference is on the centre console. Obviously, there's now a manual gearlever in place of an automatic one, but you also notice that the infotainment dial and driver controls are more spread out to make way for it. That's had little effect on ease of use, thankfully. The manually adjustable fabric seats are comfortable and wonderfully supportive.
In fact, some people might even prefer the more grippy material over the standard leather ones on the 3. Plug-in hybrid cars can reduce fuel consumption to an absolute minimum, but which models are the best all-rounders and which ones should you avoid? We have four months to find out. To find out, we're pitting the new four-cylinder Toyota Supra against its main sports car rival from Porsche.
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