The opening day of the 2024 SEMA Show in Las Vegas was a hotbed of automotive excitement, and Toyota certainly did not disappoint with its GR86 Rally Legacy Concept. This isn’t just some shiny new paint job.

Toyota has fitted the GR Corolla's AWD turbo-three into a GR86. Too bad the Rally Legacy car is just a SEMA concept.

What is perhaps more interesting is the mechanical package of the concept. Instead of the 2.0-liter flat-4 and rear-wheel drive of the stock GR86, Toyota has dropped in the turbocharged 1.5-liter inline-3 and all-wheel-drive system from the current GR Corolla hot hatch.

Japanese carmaker Toyota transformed a 2024 GR86 with the Performance Package into a modern-day replica of the Celica GT-Four

In a world with Lamborghini Huracán Sterratos and Porsche 911 Dakars, why not a Toyota GR86 with serious off-road chops? That’s probably the question the Japanese automaker was asking, although the answer it has come up with will not go beyond this week’s SEMA Show in Las Vegas.

At the 2024 SEMA Show, Toyota unveiled the GR86 Rally Legacy Concept, a tribute to its rich rally heritage. This concept reimagines the 2024 GR86 by integrating the turbocharged 1.6-liter three-cylinder engine and all-wheel-drive system from the GR Corolla,

At the 2024 SEMA Show in Las Vegas, Toyota unveiled the GR86 Rally Legacy Concept, a thrilling tribute to its iconic rally heritage. Designed as a modern reimagining of the legendary 1990s Celica GT-Four rally cars,

What could be better than a turbocharged version of Toyota’s beloved modern sports coupe, the GR86? One with the turbo three-cylinder engine from the GR Corolla, of course. The powerplant is essentially pulled from the homologation version of Toyota’s smaller hatchback,

Four's rally car look but cloaks the all-wheel-drive, turbo three-cylinder powertrain from the GR Corolla under the GR86's body.