
Some automakers construct sensible vehicles with an emphasis on reliability, and construct hundreds of thousands of them yearly. Others construct excessive supercars for race tracks, and construct far fewer. The world’s largest automaker desires to do each.
Chances are you’ll know Toyota as the house of the RAV4, the Camry, and possibly a number of multi-story warehouses of awards for reliability and resale worth.
However it would quickly even be the house of the Toyota GR GT, a screaming supercar with a twin-turbo V8 underneath the hood and sufficient vents and aerodynamic enhancements to make the Ford Mustang GTD really feel insecure.
Toyota hasn’t stated what it would price, or when it would go on sale. However the GR GT will possible be the center of a brand new high-performance sub-brand known as GR which will get a separate area in some Toyota dealerships. It will get its identify from Toyota’s Gazoo Racing motorsports group, and can promote this automobile in addition to GR variants of Toyota vehicles just like the extraordinary GR Corolla.
The GR GT may even seem in your TV. Toyota revealed a devoted racing model, the GT3, alongside the street automobile.
All-New Twin-Turbo V8
- Beneath its hood sits a newly developed engine, a 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8, mated to an electrical motor
- With rear-wheel drive and a limited-slip differential, it needs to be as agile as it’s highly effective
The GR GT introduces many all-new parts for Toyota. It rides on the corporate’s first all-aluminum physique body. A newly developed 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 powers it, working with an electrical motor to offer prompt torque.
Toyota didn’t launch remaining energy figures for the engine, however says engineers focused 641 horsepower and 627 lb-ft of torque. The highest pace is reportedly near 200 mph.
With rear-wheel drive and a mechanical limited-slip differential, it shares a structure frequent to among the world’s best-handling efficiency vehicles.
Its styling “offers paramount precedence to aerodynamics,” Toyota says. Engineers labored to excellent the aerodynamics after which work out what the physique appears to be like like, flipping the same old method to automobile design.
Toyota revealed little concerning the inside — this isn’t a automobile anybody buys for its touchscreens — however stated designers labored to attain the bottom attainable driving place. Photographs present a surprising pink cabin, Recaro racing seats, and a central touchscreen above a set of toggle switches massive sufficient to function with driving gloves on.
We anticipate to study extra because the launch of the GR model will get nearer. Toyota says it hopes to kick off the marque “round 2027.”
