The Toyota GR Super Sport Concept Is Here With Nearly 1000bhp
Remember the road-going version of the Toyota GT-One? Just two examples of the be-winged Gran Turismo hero were built because Toyota had to: homologation rules forced the Japanese car maker’s hand. But while the new GR Super Sport Concept appears to be channeling a similar vibe, Toyota’s built this thing because it wants to.
It’s best thought of as a re-bodied TS050 racing car, which means under the Super Sport’s dapper but rather serious suit you’ll find a 2.4-litre twin-turbo V6 supplemented by multiple electric motors. All told, the powertrain is good for 986bhp.
The bodywork is considerably tamer than the TS050’s, but there’s still a massive wraparound windscreen, a big rear wing and a ‘shark fin’. Oh, and those semi-slick tyres filling the wheel arches each measure in a 330mm in width.
Other than that, Toyota hasn’t revealed a whole lot else. So what’s the point? Shigeki Tomoyama, the boss of Gazoo Racing company, said: “This is the starting point for Toyota’s completely new challenge to develop sports cars from active race cars.” Colour us intrigued.
So does that mean a production version of a Super Sport could happen? Perhaps a low-volume track toy, to get around the need to vastly redesign the car and include boring things like wing mirrors and a ride height that won’t result in the car getting beached on the first speed bump it encounters.
Or, maybe Gazoo Racing is actually up for making a road-going version. In a motoring world which will soon be enriched by the Aston Martin Valkyrie and Mercedes-AMG Project One, it’s certainly not beyond the realms of possibility.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Got my popcorn ready - time will tell. But I do hope that Toyota will create a lineup for the speed loving folk too, with some limited editions for the people that are into all that, but most of all a range of some decent sports cars for the greater market
Come on Toyota, build this, and you’ll be awesome once again.
Also PLEASE make a Supra. We want it back!
I hate concepts, either they’re ugly (this isn’t), it doesn’t get produced or when it does, it looks nothing like the original.
I hope the badge at the front gets better placement, it looks hideous like that
Anyone else think this could be a homoligation car for WEC in 2020? would be good to see this race against a mclaren, aston martin, porsche, and mercedes.
Damn it, what a pleasant perspective to imagine
A true race car doesn’t have unnecessary luxuries like headlights.
You’re right. Race cars don’t need headlights because the track is always LIT.
It a TS050 with a different body wich is a le mans racer so it has to have headlights
It’s the “Summer in Lapland edition”.
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This, this is the proof group c/gt1 should be back! The valkyrie, the p1 gtr, the fxx k, the project one (amg). They already made the homologation road legal cars, all that miss now is the proper racing serie to let them race. FIA if you see this, launch it please
I was thinking the same thing but for its only a dream