Toyota Supra GR Concept
Unleashed at last week’s Geneva motor show, the car looks a lot like the FT-1 concept we’ve already seen in Gran Turismo games – and now the new Supra has also appeared in Gran Turismo.
Khodrocar - Toyota has released the GR Supra Racing concept, signalling the inevitable release of an all-new Supra. Showing just how important a halo model the Toyota GR Supra Racing Concept is to the brand, president and CEO Dr Johan van Zyl fist-pumped the air upon its announcement at the 2018 Geneva motor show.
Sure, it's just a concept at the moment – and dressed in bespoilered battle armour – but the Gazoo Racing-tuned Supra previews the production coupe jointly developed with BMW, that will also spawn a successor to the Z4 Roadster.
With pert proportions that highlight its rear-wheel drive powertrain, the fifth-generation Supra immediately looks more agile than its somewhat bloated predecessors.
That the Supra has debuted in concept form as a Gazoo model indicates the future importance of Toyota’s performance brand to its model line – it’s a statement of intent about a very high performance version to crown the range, capitalising on the brand’s involvement with the Dakar, WRC and LMP1 prototype racing.
It's a thoroughbred racer, featuring lowered suspension - indicating the road car will sit higher - and centrelocking BBS wheels wrapped in sticky race-spec Michelin rubber. Behind these sit Brembo brakes, while a racing exhaust pokes out of the aggressively styled rear bumper.
Toyota has also gone to the trouble of fitting full competition safety gear (cage/fire extinguisher/pedal box etc) which to us is a thinly veiled assersion that we'll see this car competing in the near future. It even has a plastic windscreen and side windows.
What else do we know about the next Toyota Supra?
We already know how fast the new car is going to be. Potentially.
We've already spied the production car out testing on public roads, and we understand it'll use a non-hybrid straight-6 motor, similar (in concept at least) to the mk4 Supra launched back in the ninties. Power is claimed to be around 330bhp, fed through an eight-speed automatic gearbox.
Source: Car Magazine
Sure, it's just a concept at the moment – and dressed in bespoilered battle armour – but the Gazoo Racing-tuned Supra previews the production coupe jointly developed with BMW, that will also spawn a successor to the Z4 Roadster.
With pert proportions that highlight its rear-wheel drive powertrain, the fifth-generation Supra immediately looks more agile than its somewhat bloated predecessors.
That the Supra has debuted in concept form as a Gazoo model indicates the future importance of Toyota’s performance brand to its model line – it’s a statement of intent about a very high performance version to crown the range, capitalising on the brand’s involvement with the Dakar, WRC and LMP1 prototype racing.
It's a thoroughbred racer, featuring lowered suspension - indicating the road car will sit higher - and centrelocking BBS wheels wrapped in sticky race-spec Michelin rubber. Behind these sit Brembo brakes, while a racing exhaust pokes out of the aggressively styled rear bumper.
Toyota has also gone to the trouble of fitting full competition safety gear (cage/fire extinguisher/pedal box etc) which to us is a thinly veiled assersion that we'll see this car competing in the near future. It even has a plastic windscreen and side windows.
What else do we know about the next Toyota Supra?
We already know how fast the new car is going to be. Potentially.
We've already spied the production car out testing on public roads, and we understand it'll use a non-hybrid straight-6 motor, similar (in concept at least) to the mk4 Supra launched back in the ninties. Power is claimed to be around 330bhp, fed through an eight-speed automatic gearbox.
Source: Car Magazine
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