McDonald’s Japan Teams Up With Toyota, Tomica for GR Supra Toy Car

Contrary to naysayers such as Shinichi Kobayashi, the Japanese automaker has entered a collaboration with McDonald’s to push the GR Supra onto the kids for two weeks as a toy car. Offered in the Happy Set – which is Japan’s way of saying Happy Meal – the GR Supra scale model comes only in red.

The undercarriage is labeled Tomica and Made In China, but nevertheless, the toy car features actual lights in the headlights. Also known as Tomika Toys, the Japanese company celebrates five decades of existence in 2020.

Other than the GR Supra, the toy cars that customers of McDonald’s can get in the Happy Set include the Mazda CX-5 Patrol Car, a Dinosaur Carrier semi, and a concrete mixer truck. Earlier this year, the fast-food company offered the Nissan GT-R NISMO, a bus, an ambulance, and a fire truck.

The Happy Set retails at 470 yen for the hamburger or petit pancake while the cheeseburger and chicken nuggets are a little bit more at 500 yen. That’s $4.40 and $4.70 U.S. at the current exchange rates compared to $2.49, $2.69, $3.29 in the United States. The Mighty Kids Meal with six nuggets is $3.99.

Having talked one paragraph too many about food, it’s high time to turn our attention back to the Supra. Don’t expect the 2JZ to come back as the 3JZ for the 2022 model year. In fact, Toyota doesn’t even offer a six-speed manual at the time of writing this article, even though BMW has such an option.

The Z4 can be had with a stick shift only with the least powerful engine, namely the four-cylinder turbo that cranks out 197 PS (194 horsepower). The GR Supra, on the other hand, isn’t offered with this tune in the U.S. or Europe but the slightly more potent version with 258 PS (255 horsepower) on deck.