2026 Toyota GR86 Celebrates Its Scion Ancestry with Yuzu Special Edition
Inspired by the Scion FR-S Release Series 1.0, the limited-run Yuzu edition effectively replaces the 2025 GR86’s Hakone Edition.
The spirit of the long-dead Scion brand lives on at Toyota with the introduction of the 2026 GR86 Yuzu Special Edition. Marking the fourth such limited-run variant of the brand’s second-generation sports coupe (with the 10th Anniversary, Trueno, and Hakone editions preceding it), the Yuzu takes inspiration from the Scion FR-S Release Series 1.0 of 2015.
Though Toyota’s ambitious entry-level brand—which sold cars from the 2004 to 2016 model years—died before reaching its preteens, Scion’s FR-S sports coupe earned a second chance at life in the States as the Toyota 86 that preceded today’s GR86. Like its ancestral family member, the Yuzu dons a coat of yellow paint and gloss-black exterior accents. Complementing this palette are front seats with faux-suede inserts that feature yellow decor, and yellow stitching for the likes of the front seats, steering wheel, parking brake lever, and doors.
Befitting its Scion homage, the Yuzu also offers accessory options aimed at giving owners the chance to live—or relive—their turn-of-the-millennium street-racing fantasies. This includes a gaudy body kit and a cat-back exhaust system with four comically large silver tailpipe tips replete with the GR logo.
Otherwise, the Yuzu is effectively a zhuzhed-up GR86 Premium with the Performance pack, an option that adds a set of Sachs dampers and beefy Brembo-sourced brakes with re-painted four-piston front and two-piston rear calipers that work with a pair of 12.8-inch and 12.4-inch front and rear rotors, respectively. Opting for the Performance pack tacks on as little as $1500 and as much as $2020 to the price of the 2025 Toyota GR86, depending on trim.
Under the hood of the Yuzu sits the same 228-hp 2.4-liter flat-four that motivates lesser GR86 models. Likewise, the limited-run model offers buyers a choice of either a six-speed manual or a six-speed automatic transmission. Toyota intends to bring just 860 units of the Yuzu Special Edition to the States, matching production runs of the second-generation GR86’s prior 10th Anniversary, Trueno, and Hakone editions.
Pricing for the entire 2026 GR86 model line remains under wraps, but we wager the model may see a big price jump due to the effects of the federal government’s current trade war. Should the recently imposed retaliatory tariffs go away, then we expect the GR86’s starting sum to stay close to its current sub-$32K base price, with the Yuzu Special Edition stickering for a little more than that of the current Hakone Edition’s $36,405 cost of entry. Add a few stacks to those figures if the toll of tariffs requires Toyota to pass on those costs to consumers. Given the FR-S Release Series 1.0’s $31,760 price tag in 2015 is the equivalent of just shy of $42K today, it’s almost certain the Yuzu Special Edition will effectively undercut the cost of the car that inspired it—tariffs or not.
