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Toyota has launched a new performance brand, Gazoo Racing, via the Yaris GRMN hot hatch. And this is a hint at some of the bespoke sports cars that could follow. It"s called the GR Super Sport Concept, and it uses the petrol-electric powertrain of Toyota"s Le Mans racecar. Yep, while Mercedes shoehorns F1 engines into supercars, Toyota"s doing the same with a World Endurance Championship drivetrain. And it appears to have been transplanted across undiluted, the Super Sport boasting 1,000bhp from a combination of twin-turbo 2.4-litre V6 and electric motors. There"s also similar aero to the racecar and some circuit-friendly diddy 18in wheels in fat tyres. No insta-friendly chrome 21s here. Many have pondered Toyota"s continued involvement in WEC, with its only direct competitors Audi and Porsche having withdrawn from the sport. This concept is a suggestion that some future GR products will be born entirely from motorsport, and not heated-up versions of regular road cars, like that Yaris.
Date written: 12 Jan 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 10521
Toyota has launched a new performance brand, Gazoo Racing, via the Yaris GRMN hot hatch. And this is a hint at some of the bespoke sports cars that could follow. It"s called the GR Super Sport Concept, and it uses the petrol-electric powertrain of Toyota"s Le Mans racecar. Yep, while Mercedes shoehorns F1 engines into supercars, Toyota"s doing the same with a World Endurance Championship drivetrain. And it appears to have been transplanted across undiluted, the Super Sport boasting 1,000bhp from a combination of twin-turbo 2.4-litre V6 and electric motors. There"s also similar aero to the racecar and some circuit-friendly diddy 18in wheels in fat tyres. No insta-friendly chrome 21s here. Many have pondered Toyota"s continued involvement in WEC, with its only direct competitors Audi and Porsche having withdrawn from the sport. This concept is a suggestion that some future GR products will be born entirely from motorsport, and not heated-up versions of regular road cars, like that Yaris.
Date written: 12 Jan 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 10521
