Promoted: In the last 4 years, ToyotaUK has unveiled 3 new models that have set fresh benchmarks for affordable and desirable performance... 🔥Toyota GR Supra 🔥Toyota GR Yaris 🔥Toyota GR86 Let’s take a closer look at these game-changing cars
Working directly alongside the race and rally teams, Toyota GAZOO Racing’s road car engineers have taken this race-honed knowledge and experience to design a new breed of ‘ever better’ GR Series sports cars and hot hatches that generate real passion and must-have halo desire among true performance enthusiasts.
Toyota’s late great master test driver Hiromu Naruse – a founding father of GAZOO Racing – raced at the Nürburgring since the 1970s and saw it as the ultimate proving ground. “On the wonderful surfaces of Japanese circuits, it was only possible to understand one-tenth of a car,” he once said. “The Nürburging let us see everything. It was impossible to deceive ourselves.”
Toyota made its rallying debut in 1972 and has built an incredible record for success in the World Rally Championship – its four drivers’ titles and three manufacturers’ titles in the 1990s with Carlos Sainz, Juha Kankkunen and Didier Auriol ensuring that the Toyota Celica and Toyota Corolla became quickly established as true performance must-haves for automotive fans.
A dedicated Circuit Pack adds GAZOO Racing-tuned suspension, front and rear Torsen limited-slip differentials, lightweight forged BBS alloys and Michelin Pilot 4S performance tyres, making the Toyota GR Yaris something of a giant-killing wolf in admittedly stylish sheep’s clothing – easily capable of taking on considerably more expensive sports cars.