The Manual-Transmission 2023 Toyota GR Supra Is Everything You Hoped it Would Be

Engaging on a level it never was before, Toyota's sports car gets a stick-shift, and with it, a renewed sense of purpose.
ByAdam Ismail

Photo: Adam Ismail

If you told me a decade ago that Toyota — the company that gave us the “Camry Effect” ad campaign — would reposition itself to be one of the last bastions for accessible performance in the auto industry today, I’d have told you to go ground yourself to the ground.

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Here we are though, in 2022, and the world’s biggest manufacturer has found its pulse again with three models that scale the enthusiast ladder. And Toyota is actually listening to enthusiasts! The company went back to the drawing board and found a way to offer the GR Supra with the manual transmission it was missing at launch. Granted, it took them a while, but frankly, I’m just comforted we’re getting a manual Supra at all.

To be fair, the Supra’s standard eight-speed automatic is snappy and does everything right, but a 0-60 time isn’t the only thing. If it was, I assuredly wouldn’t be writing this today. After three years of pleading, I will happily serve as the messenger of good, obvious news: the row-your-own Supra is great, buoyed by a newfound purpose that we all knew the two-door lacked from the beginning, even if we hopelessly tried to ignore that fact.

Source: https://jalopnik.com/2023-toyota-gr-supra-manual-first-drive-review-1849500461/amp