Toyota MR2 2026: next mid-engined Toyota sports car could cost more than $100,000

We’ve considered Toyota’s notion sports car already, however now experiences from Greatest Car Web stamp that the seemingly mid-engined two-door sports vehicle might possibly well impress over 10 million yen, or roughly the equivalent of AUD$100,000.

Very seemingly to be known as the MR2 and featuring a powertrain borrowed from the GR Yaris, the prolonged bustle Toyota sports car will seemingly be as costly because the fresh GR Supra.

Nevertheless what precisely will seemingly be planned, and when might possibly well we see the brand new-technology MR2 come to actuality?

Mid-engined sports car became as soon as going to be a GR Yaris

Greatest Car Web experiences that the brand new thought became as soon as for Toyota to arrangement a mid-engined GR Yaris, valuable admire the iconic rally-honed Renault 5, however the imprint shelved the root.

The Eastern describe also states that the GR Yaris has “no longer turn into extra standard” in its home market, pushing the seemingly for a mid-engined two-door coupe whereas rekindling an iconic sports nameplate.

Electric model also on the cards

It’s seemingly that a future MR2 can even be in a location to be configured for a fleshy-electrical powertrain additional alongside the line.

The FT-Se notion, which debuted at the fresh Japan Mobility Expose, offers us a upright suggestion of what to query from a future Toyota sports car. Alternatively, nothing has been confirmed lawful yet.

The subsequent MR2 might possibly well hang the effect of abode left by the Lotus Elise and might possibly well compete with autos such because the Mazda MX-5 and, on a wholly varied level, the upcoming MG Cyberster.

The MR2 – or ‘mid-ship runabout 2-seater’ – became as soon as equipped in three generations from 1984 globally, its debut technology first arriving in Australia in 1987.

Its ‘millennial’ third-technology surfaced as a tumble-top spider to primarily arrangement discontinuance on the iconic Mazda MX-5, however became as soon as discontinued two years later in 2002.