2023 Toyota GR86 limited to 1100 examples in first year, one-in-two customers will miss out

The new-generation Toyota GR86 sports car will arrive in limited numbers in the first 12 months on sale in Australia.

Starting from this month, Toyota showrooms in Australia are due to receive just 1100 examples of the second-generation Toyota GR86 – including any 10th anniversary editions – over the next year.

This amounts to about half the number of sales of the original Toyota 86 when it arrived in 2012.

Toyota Australia reported as sold more than 2000 examples of the original Toyota 86 sports car in 2012 – and that was not even the first full year on sale.

The following year, in 2013, more than 6700 examples of the Toyota 86 were reported as sold in Australia – the highest annual tally of the original model.

The sales and marketing boss of Toyota Australia, Sean Hanley, told Australian media this week: "We are working with our parent company in Japan to try to secure (more) supply.

"We have paused (orders) for the new GR86 after we secured a stock of about 1100 cars for the first 12 months.

"As with all GR performance cars, we expect demand to exceed supply."

Toyota Australia has announced 86 examples of the 10th Anniversary edition will be sold locally.

Executives have confirmed the figure of 1100 examples includes any special editions planned for the local market.

Highlighting the limited the supply of the new Toyota GR86, the figure of 1100 vehicles in the first 12 months is even less than the 1400 examples of the original Subaru BRZ in its first full year on sale in 2012.

Meanwhile the second-generation Subaru BRZ – the twin to the Toyota GR86 – is also facing stock shortages initially.

Since the latest Subaru BRZ arrived in local showrooms at the start of this year, the company has reported 685 examples as sold.

Despite these setbacks, industry analysts believe sports car sales are set to boom in the coming years – after five years of straight decline – with the arrival of four key new models: Subaru BRZ, Toyota GR86, Nissan Z Coupe, and the next-generation Ford Mustang.