There are ordinary ways to say goodbye. Toyota apparently prefers 382 horsepower, a turbocharged inline-six and a set of red Brembo brake calipers.
The 2026 Toyota GR Supra MkV Final Edition marks the closing chapter for the fifth generation of one of Toyota’s most celebrated sports cars. My Renaissance Red test car certainly wasn’t going quietly.
The Supra returned to the American market for the 2020 model year after a lengthy absence, rekindling a name that had developed an almost cult-like following among sports-car enthusiasts. Now Toyota is giving the MkV generation a proper sendoff with a Final Edition sharpened through lessons learned from its Gazoo Racing motorsports program.
And because this was my first Supra since beginning with my Saturday Drive test drive series last October, I figured it deserved more than just a run to the grocery store.
The big lap around Denver
I essentially drove the circumference of metropolitan Denver, starting downtown and heading south on Interstate 25 to C-470, then west toward Golden.
From there, the Supra and I headed up Lookout Mountain, where the twisting climb provided a much better introduction to the car than another stretch of interstate ever could.
Under that long hood is a 3.0-liter twin-scroll single-turbo inline six-cylinder producing 382 horsepower and 368 pound-feet of torque. My test car paired it with an eight-speed automatic transmission and paddle shifters, sending everything to the rear wheels through an active rear sport differential.
Toyota estimates the automatic will launch from zero to 60 mph in just 3.9 seconds.
That’s properly quick.
But straight-line acceleration is only part of the Supra’s personality. The Final Edition receives upgraded performance dampers with Adaptive Variable Sport suspension, additional chassis tuning and Michelin Pilot Super Sport tires measuring 255/35ZR19 in front and a substantial 275/30ZR19 at the rear.
The result is a car that feels happiest when the road begins bending.
What about those brakes?
Lookout Mountain also gave me an opportunity to investigate one of the Final Edition’s more significant performance upgrades.
Up front are larger brakes with four-piston Brembo calipers, their bright-red finish and GR identification providing a nice visual contrast behind the Supra’s 19-inch forged matte-black wheels.
So after reaching the top, I deliberately paid attention to braking performance during the descent.
The brakes were powerful, predictable and reassuring. But in normal spirited road driving, I can’t say the four-piston setup produced some night-and-day revelation from behind the wheel.
That’s probably the point.
The advantage of larger performance brakes isn’t necessarily that every stop feels dramatically different. Their greater value emerges when repeated hard braking generates serious heat, where larger performance hardware can better resist fade and maintain consistent stopping performance. A racetrack would reveal considerably more about their capabilities than I responsibly could on a public mountain road.
Back on relatively level ground, I continued north through the Golden area, toward Boulder and onto U.S. 36, then picked up Northwest Parkway near Broomfield. That eventually becomes E-470, allowing me to continue around the eastern and southeastern sides of the metro area before reconnecting with I-25 for the return downtown.
It amounted to one big asphalt circle around Denver, and a pretty good laboratory for discovering whether a car designed around performance can also live with everyday Colorado driving.
The Supra can.
Fighter jet meets sports car
There was another required stop.
I took the Renaissance Red Supra to Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum for photographs alongside vintage military aircraft.
Sports cars and fighter airplanes have always seemed to speak roughly the same design language: speed, compact dimensions, aerodynamic surfaces and the unmistakable suggestion that standing still is merely temporary.
The Supra fits the picture particularly well.
The Renaissance Red paint doesn’t exactly encourage anonymity, either. In this color, or any color, the Supra is always seen.
2026 Toyota GR Supra MkV Final Edition
Engine: 3.0-liter twin-scroll turbocharged inline-six
Horsepower: 382
Torque: 368 lb.-ft.
Transmission: Eight-speed automatic with paddle shifters
Drive: Rear-wheel drive
0–60 mph: 3.9 seconds, manufacturer estimate
Fuel economy: 22 mpg city / 29 highway / 25 combined
Wheels: 19-inch forged matte-black
Tires: Michelin Pilot Super Sport, 255/35ZR19 front; 275/30ZR19 rear
Seating: Two
Test vehicle color: Renaissance Red
Base price of test vehicle: $67,950
Price as tested: $71,160
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