You know what they say — win on Sunday, sell on Monday. That's why Toyota is drawing from its experience in Japan's Super Taikyu race series with its newest, range-topping GR Corolla variant.
The 2026 Toyota GRMN Corolla joins the lineup this year as the "ultimate expression of the GR Corolla," or so the company says. Think of it as a spiritual successor to the ultra-hardcore, ultra-limited-run Morizo, only with a back seat and a production run not limited to a certain number of units.
Toyota developed the GRMN Corolla drawing from both Nürburgring testing and experience competing in Japan's Super Taikyu series. No, the GRMN does not run on hydrogen like the race cars, but you do get a laundry list of track-ready upgrades.
For starters, the GRMN Corolla gets a carbon fibre hood, front splitter, fenders, and hatch wing. It gets unique badges, the same wheels as the Circuit and Morizo Edition but finished in bronze, and it only comes in two colours: Zero Gravity or Gravel.
Inside, the GRMN Corolla gets some sweet-looking semi-bucket sport seats, a stitched Alcantara dash panel embossed with Akio Toyoda's "Morizo" signature, a forged carbon interior panel, dark metal accents, red trim, and like the GR Corolla Morizo, no back seat. It was too tight back there, anyway.
The fun stuff's underneath the GRMN-exclusive carbon hood. Toyota found their race-spec GRs needed more of a mid-range punch coming out of corners, so it turned up the torque to 302 pound-feet and promises more of a punch between 4,000 and 4,600 rpm. Horsepower remains at a nice and even 300.
Keeping the shiny side up are GRMN-exclusive front and rear monotube shocks, tweaks to the power steering and all-wheel-drive tuning, and Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2s. Toyota says the GRMN Corolla is 30 kilograms lighter overall than the standard car. Hey, that's not nothing.
Toyota will announce pricing closer to the 2026 GRMN Corolla's on-sale "later this year." They also haven't specified whether these will be a limited-run model; if Toyota flips the script and builds as many as they need to, we imagine a few Morizo Edition owners might be upset.
