{"id":36506,"date":"2026-08-06T16:50:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=36506"},"modified":"2026-08-06T16:50:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:50:04","slug":"payne-last-dance-with-the-terrific-toyota-gr-supra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/payne-last-dance-with-the-terrific-toyota-gr-supra","title":{"rendered":"Payne: Last dance with the terrific Toyota GR Supra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/08\/04\/PDTN\/91161466007-toyota-gr-supra-mk-v-final-edition-fr.jpg?width=660&amp;height=372&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"The nose of the 2026 Toyota GR Supra MkV Final Edition was inspired by Formula One cars.\" width=\"532\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"gnt_pg_img_cap\"><em>The nose of the 2026 Toyota GR Supra MkV Final Edition was inspired by Formula One cars.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>Henry Payne, The Detroit News<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Bay City<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 Call it the Batmobile. The stealth fighter. The Black Widow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Or, in long hand, the matte-black 2026 Toyota GR Supra MkV Final Edition. It\u2019s the last hurrah for one of the most engaging, recognized, awarded sports cars in the U.S. market. My Final Edition tester was a paparazzi magnet on a weekend up north. In Charlevoix a Amazon delivery driver jumped out of his truck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cI saw this come by down the block,\u201d he said. \u201cDo you mind if I take some photos?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">At a gas station, the driver at the next pump came over to ogle. \u201cNice car,\u201d he drooled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">On I-75, an SUV shadowed me at 75 mph, its occupants hanging their smartphones out the window to take video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">On M-31, a Golf R tailed me to get a closer look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nose of the 2026 Toyota GR Supra MkV Final Edition was inspired by Formula One cars. Henry Payne, The Detroit News Bay City\u00a0\u2014 Call it the Batmobile. The stealth fighter. The Black Widow. Or, in long hand, the matte-black 2026 Toyota GR Supra MkV Final Edition. It\u2019s the last hurrah for one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36507,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36506\/revisions\/36507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}