I like that colour with the bronze wheels.
Photography Courtesy Toyota
As alluring as the unique Ridge Green paint, tan and black interior, bronze wheels, and exclusive badging make the new GR86 Hakone Edition, it’s the subtle tweaks made to the entire 2025 GR86 lineup that have us interested.
The engineers at Gazoo Racing have retuned the GR86’s shocks and power steering to improve handling feel and offer a better “sense of ground contact,” says Toyota.
Throttle mapping has also been adjusted to make it easier to blip the throttle during heel-tow downshifts and give drivers a throttle response that's more linear and more direct.
Back to the Hakone Edition, Toyota only plans to build 860 examples for the United States. Each one is based on the GR86 Premium trim, and all Hakone Editions come standard with Sachs dampers as well as 4-piston front and 2-piston rear Brembo brakes–both available as part of an optional package on the base and Premium trim GR86.
Customers of the Hakone Edition will have their choice of either a six-speed manual or a six-speed automatic–the same as the rest of the GR86 lineup.
Hakone Edition or not, power from the GR86’s 2.4-liter engine remains the same for 2025: 228 horsepower and 184 lb.-ft. of torque.
Toyota plans to share pricing sometime later this year, though did confirm that the 2025 GR86–inclduing the Hakone Edition–will begin arriving at dealerships in Fall.
I like that colour with the bronze wheels.
Agree about that color combo.
Predictably incremental additions as usual but it's nice just to have such a vehicle in the market.
Good looking little car. I have never driven one, but I imagine they are a lot of fun.
DavyZ said:Good looking little car. I have never driven one, but I imagine they are a lot of fun.
It was the same for the Hakone for the 1st gen. Special color combo, brembos, different shocks.
I'm not a huge fan of green ... but it really works well on that car, especially with the wheels.
In reply to J.A. Ackley :
I'm not sure if the photos Toyota provided are the most flattering. I'd say take a look at the photos Chris took of the previous-gen Hakone to get a better idea of what the color actually looks like:
That's a gorgeous color combo! They have a few great colors available for these, which is awesome to see [glares disapprovingly at Mazda].
Did we ever get any clarity on/solution to the oiling issue with these? I know early on there was some worry that if you go around a corner on the track you would blow up 100% of the time.
This is so tempting. It feels like this is the end of the line for this type of car and.. look at it.
In reply to nocones :
I would imagine there is only a couple of model years left. I think it stops being sold in Europe next year because it won't meet emissions. But I won't testify to that.
CrashDummy said:That's a gorgeous color combo! They have a few great colors available for these, which is awesome to see [glares disapprovingly at Mazda].
Did we ever get any clarity on/solution to the oiling issue with these? I know early on there was some worry that if you go around a corner on the track you would blow up 100% of the time.
Here's one of a couple of interesting threads from GR86.org on the oiling issue. The cars from the GR Cup series seem to be pretty reliable.
TL;DR:
The GR Cup cars have an oil cooler and a pan with a vertical baffle. They overfill to six quarts 0W40 with an additional quart in the oil cooler. There were five engine failures in 2023 GR Cup season. Three were due to not filling or underfilling the engine oil, one due to overheating, and one rod broke.
From my reading on the forum, the consensus seems to be to overfill to six quarts and you should be fine for street and some track days.
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