Take one 300 hp Toyota GR Corolla. Transplant its drivetrain into a GR86. Add some wings, lights and cool exhausts. Future motoring icon born.

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.

Inspired by the Celica GT-Four and with GR Corolla underpinnings, Toyota has created the ultimate GR86 – but you can’t buy one

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

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.

Evasive Motorsports stuffed the Toyota GR Corolla's 300-hp three-cylinder and all-wheel-drive system into this nostalgic GR86 build for SEMA.

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

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.

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.