Toyota Supra axed ahead of Supercars debut in Australia

Toyota Australia has officially called time on the current, fifth-generation Supra – called GR Supra – and will cease taking customer orders this month (August 2025).

Details around an expected future sixth-generation replacement, expected in 2027 and rumoured to be a sole Toyota development using 2.0-litre hybrid power, are yet to be confirmed. 

First launched in 2019, the current-generation line-up was recently expanded to three variants, with the freshly introduced Track Edition joining the GT and GTS versions, all offered in the choice of six-speed manual or eight-speed automatic transmissions. 

All are being removed from sale effective immediately, with Toyota Australia advising that “customers looking to purchase GR Supra are encouraged to speak to their preferred dealer before closure as stock is limited”.

According to the local arm, “over 1400” units of the 285kW/500Nm turbocharged 3.0-litre six-powered fifth-generation coupe have been sold in the six years between its September 2019 introduction and mid-2025.      

Supercars Championship could debut the forthcoming sixth-generation successor

The big plot twist in the announcement is that Toyota will pursue its debut of GR Supra – in one form or another – in next year’s 2026 Supercars race series, fuelling fire to speculation that the racecar Toyota Australia will help grid will in fact be a next-generation Supra model. 

“While customers will no longer be able to purchase their own GR Supra by the end of August [2025], fans of the GR Supra will be able to follow its story when it lines up on the Supercars Championship grid in 2026 and beyond,” said Toyota Australia executive Sean Hanley.  

It’s entirely feasible that a timeline might play out where the future, sixth-generation Supra would make the Supercars grid in 2026 prior to the production car’s road car debut, as forecast, in 2027. 

If so, it’s entirely likely that the next, sixth-generation Supra will make a debut, in either concept or production road-going guise, at or around the Japan Mobility Show set to take place at the end of October. 

However, this would contradict Toyota Australia’s assertion that the “current-generation GR Supra [will] continue to form the basis of the Supercars Championship racecar”, regardless of the marketing conflict of promoting a model that, next year, will no longer be on sale.  

If this is indeed that case, race teams aligned with Toyota’s Supercars campaign will run with the current fifth-generation GR Supra-bodied racecars for 2026 before possibly pivoting to rebodied sixth-generation guises for 2027 and beyond.