Toyota GR GT3 is a wild concept racer | FOS Future Lab
Toyota Gazoo Racing has revealed the GR GT3 Concept, a bespoke vision for a Gazoo Racing customer GT3 car. A confusing reveal, given that a core principle in GT3 is the homologation of the racer with a road-going equivalent. By this logic, either the GR GT3 Concept will remain exactly that, or a road-faring variant is on the way.
Because as you can see, this thing is entirely its own thing. There’s no discernible relation to any of the marque’s production cars, including the Supra. The recently-introduced flagship is all curves and bulges. This GR GT3 is all angles. It’s a completely different size – wider, lower, longer, with totally different lighting. Toyota has been curiously vague on details about the GR GT3, only speaking of general future intentions.
“TGR intends to use feedback and technologies refined through participation in various motorsports activities to develop both GT3 and mass-production cars and further promote making ever-better motorsports-bred cars”.
In short? Toyota wants to race in GT3 and do so more cleverly than putting a road car into production and then developing a racer after the fact. Beyond that, including specifics of what car and when? Nothing.
Is the GR GT3 a roundabout way of Toyota saying it regrets that BMW collaboration for the revival of its most famous sportscar name? Something home-grown, with road and GT3 variants developed in tandem, would have fit the above remit nicely. Conversely, perhaps a new name to take flagship duties away from the Supra, is on the way from Toyota soon…
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