Nobody Expected This Celica Comeback | 2026 Toyota Celica!

The Toyota Celica has been dead for over 20 years and Toyota just brought it back. But here's the thing, it didn't come back as a soft modern crossover, it didn't come back as a hybrid hatchback, it came back as a monster. And today I'm showing you every single angle of it. Let's start with the front. Look at this thing. That is not a normal Toyota face. You've got these sharp, angular LED headlights that cut right into the hood, a massive open grill down below, not for looks, for actual cooling, hood vents right on top, functional, not decorative, and a big carbon fiber front splitter scraping the ground. The GR badge is right there at the bottom. Small, subtle, but if you know, you know. And the color. This is that mint green, that bright almost metallic teal that makes everyone in the parking lot stop and look. It's not aggressive, it's not subtle, it's just perfect for this car. Now the side. This is where you really see what the Celica is. Low. Really low. Almost no ride height at all. Two doors, a roofline that just drops, carbon fiber side skirts running the whole length of the car, bronze mesh wheels with red brake calipers peeking through. It has that classic, long hood, short deck shape that made the original Celica so iconic back in the day. But this one looks like it went to the gym and never stopped going. Wide fenders, muscular shoulders, the GR badge on the door, just a small red sticker, that's all it needs. The rear. Oh wow. This is insane. You've got these sharp red LED tail lights on each side, Toyota logo centered right in the middle, a spoiler on top, and then, down at the bottom, a full carbon fiber diffuser. Massive, with four exhaust tips sitting right in the center, two on each side, stacked with blue titanium tips. On a Toyota. From above, you can see the full shape. Two small seats, big engine hood up front, basically no roof. This car is wide, and every line is drawn for one reason. To go fast. Inside. The moment you sit in this car, you know it's a GR. Everything is black. Black Alcantara seats with red stitching everywhere, red stitching on the steering wheel, red stitching on the seats, even the gear boot, red stitching. The GR logo is on the steering wheel and on the seats. They did not forget to remind you what you're driving. The center console has a proper manual gear shifter, not a paddle shifter, not a dial, an actual stick shift that you move with your hand, for people who actually want to drive. Digital instrument clusters showing RPM, speed, all your performance data, infotainment screen on the right side. Not huge, not overwhelming, just enough. Because in this car, the screen is not the main event. The road is. The rear seats, they exist. That's about it. Two small seats with GR logos on the headrests, but let's be real, nobody's buying this car for the rear seats. Under the hood, here's where it gets really interesting. According to the latest reports from Japanese sources, the GR Celica is coming with Toyota's new G20e engine, a two-liter turbocharged inline four. And in this car, it makes 400 horsepower and 406 pound-feet of torque from a two-liter engine. You can get it with a six-speed manual or an eight-speed automatic. And it comes with Toyota's GR4 all-wheel drive system, the same system from the GR Yaris and GR Corolla. Hood and rear wing, carbon fiber, because of course they are. Zero to 60, expected around 3.8 to 4.0 seconds. Top speed, well over 250 kilometers per hour. Pricing in Japan is expected to start around $44,000 to $51,000, making it the most affordable mid-engine style sports car you can buy. So what is the 2026 Toyota Celica GR? It's Toyota saying, we heard you. You wanted a real sports car. Not a crossover, not a hybrid SUV. A low, light, powerful, manual-optioned GR badge sports coupe that looks like it belongs on a racetrack and sounds like it too. The Celica went away in 2006, and for 20 years, fans have been asking for it to come back. And now, it's back. And it didn't come back quiet. It came back with 400 horsepower, carbon fiber, quad exhaust tips, and that mint green paint that is going to make everyone on the street turn their head. Toyota, finally. Hit subscribe, because more cars like this are coming, and you don't want to miss them.