This 600bhp Toyota C-HR Is A Shopping Car With A Massive Wing

Having just earned itself the unofficial title of 'World's Fastest Crossover,' this 600bhp custom-built C-HR is definitely not your usual urban runabout - and it's manual, too
This 600bhp Toyota C-HR Is A Shopping Car With A Massive Wing

If you had to name a current Toyota that could lap California’s Willow Springs Raceway faster than a McLaren 650S Spider or a Porsche 911 GT3, the quirky little C-HR probably wouldn’t be top of your list.

However, bring expert tuner Dan Gardner (aka DG-Spec) into the equation and things change. A lot. This is the C-HR R-Tuned, and according to the times on fastestlaps.com, it beat the Porsche and McLaren on that track – as well as the Nissan GT-R Nismo, for good measure.

This 600bhp Toyota C-HR Is A Shopping Car With A Massive Wing

Gone is the standard drivetrain, replaced with a fire-breathing 2.4-litre Toyota 2AZ-FE engine. Its four cylinders are blessed with forged Dezod internals and a titanium and Inconel valvetrain to withstand intense forces.

Add to that a DG-Spec Garrett turbo with the boost turned up to 11 (or 23psi, if you like) and you get over 600bhp. Absolutely mental.

This 600bhp Toyota C-HR Is A Shopping Car With A Massive Wing

Because it has so much torque, a simple and strong Toyota E-series five-speed manual gearbox does the business. Handling is boosted massively by an OS Giken limited-slip differential. Brembo brakes some 14 inches across do the stopping. DG-Spec Motion Control Suspension race-spec dampers make sure that this is no straight-line one-trick pony.

The tyres are hefty and semi-slick 275/35/R18 Toyo Proxes RR. Grip is aided further by around the huge rear wing and front splitter, which provide 130kg of downforce at ‘triple-digit speeds.’ It’s a proper little weapon, but don’t expect to see it making production any time soon…

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Comments

DL🏁

This pisses me off. Why?

Because Toyota made this and before that, they made this uber-fast 200mph+ Land Cruiser. Which is amazing of course, but how about they focus on making fast cars which we can actually buy?

They make these concepts and never follow them up with production cars. Wtf?

11/02/2017 - 12:55 |
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Toyotas are almost all lame right now. Not even the GT86 is particularly interesting.

11/02/2017 - 15:00 |
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Anonymous

Still a face only a mother could love…

11/02/2017 - 12:56 |
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zain27

This engine should be in the GT-86 !!!

11/02/2017 - 12:57 |
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jdm-supra-1600(md squad)(Supra squad leader)

TBH I would like to have it

11/02/2017 - 13:09 |
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redflamexfire(R32 squad)

I want one NOW!

11/02/2017 - 13:25 |
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Marchel Kindangen

All hail THE ALMIGHTY WING,,,,!!!!! m( )m

11/02/2017 - 13:29 |
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Brecon the car owner (Mazda Lantis Squad) (JDM squad)

TBH the tail lights remind me the new civic and also doesn’t Toyota already have fastest SUV to there name

11/02/2017 - 13:30 |
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Anonymous

Installing that engine in a toyota 86 would be a good idea

11/02/2017 - 14:27 |
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The Abider

2AZ-FE? As in, the engine in my 05 camry?

11/02/2017 - 14:45 |
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Anonymous

Hmmm… A shopping cart that takes on every corner….

11/02/2017 - 15:33 |
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