Long live the V8! Wild GR GT and GR GT3 break cover alongside Lexus LFA Concept to prove ‘Toyota isn’t boring’

Toyota Worldwide has this day revealed three mind-boggling V8 supercars, designated as GR GT, GR GT3, and Lexus LFA Belief to the enviornment stage, with staunch promise of a roadgoing version launch in due direction.

All three supercars are powered by a twin-turbocharged petrol V8, with the toll road-going GR GT furthermore gaining a hybrid map. Both the GR GT3 and Lexus LFA Belief remain as notice-handiest gadgets for now.

An in-depth admire at Toyota’s modular V8 engine platform may perchance well merely furthermore be considered right here.

Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda said that the vehicles are a consequence of a imaginative and prescient to invent no more dumb cars, pointing out that he used to be disappointed by Lexus of The US’s popularity of “being dumb”.

“We weak the wretchedness and frustration from ‘Kuyashisa’ (which arrive humiliation or frustration) to focal level on growing ever better cars, from the GR 86, Supra, Yaris, and Corolla to now, with the GR GT and GT3,” he said.

Diminutive technical specification, rather then for the engine, is identified for Toyota’s three belief vehicles. We wait for a different of automated or handbook transmission paired with rear-wheel drive – a requirement for GT3 racing guidelines.

What is identified presently is that the vehicles will seemingly be constructed on a rigid aluminium spaceframe. Tune-focused variations already sport a apparently total inner, placeholder or otherwise, where the roadgoing GT may perchance well merely furthermore be viewed wearing crimson bucket seats and door-playing cards.

Finish followers of Toyota will show that right here isn’t very any longer the first time the GR GT and GT3 had been on show, first performing in hide using at the celebrated Goodwood Competition of Tempo. These vehicles sported identical notice-prepared interiors with wrap-round Recaro buckets.

Inaugurate air, all three vehicles are visually identical, wearing huge bonnet vents, carbon-fibre roof, a low-slung aerodynamic silhouette, slender LED brightwork, an LFA-impressed angular rear conclude, and several other brake-cooling ducts. The GR GT3 furthermore sports activities an great spoiler.

Toyota says its new belief vehicles checklist a brand new direction for the Japanese firm, where racing will seemingly be prioritised to nurture new technology and merchandise for both Lexus and GR-badged vehicles.

It’s unclear when world or Australian deliveries will originate for the roadgoing GR GT, as properly because the notice-handiest GR GT3 and Lexus LFA Belief.

Pricing too, is purely speculative. Certainly on both looks and sound, the three belief vehicles seem like competitors to the Porsche 911 GT3 and McLaren 750S. Inquire pricing to be north of $400,000.

Being that the vehicles are described as non secular successors to both the Toyota 2000GT and Lexus LFA, pricing may perchance even land in essential more than $700,000!