THE GR GT & GR GT3 ARE TOYOTA GAZOO RACING’S NEW AGE HEAVY HITTERS - AND THEY'RE STUNNERS!
Toyota Gazoo Racing just dropped a double dose of future legend with the GR GT and GR GT3, two flagship machines built as modern heirs to icons like the Toyota 2000GT and the Lexus LFA. These cars aren’t just performance projects—they’re rolling apprenticeships. Veteran LFA engineers passed on their hard-earned black-magic skills to a new generation, with TGR using these cars as a “Shikinen Sengu” moment: preserving the secret sauce of car-making while injecting it with first-ever Toyota tech. The GR GT in particular is a road-legal race car in the purest sense, pairing a newly developed 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 with an electric motor for system outputs targeting 478 kW+ and 850 Nm+, all wrapped in a design built from the aero map outward. Toyota’s first all-aluminium frame, extensive carbon use, and a relentless focus on lowering the centre of gravity mean the GR GT is engineered for that coveted car-and-driver mind-meld. With a 320 km/h+ top speed and aero sculpted by people who cut their teeth on FIA WEC prototypes, everything about this machine screams intent.
Packaging the GR GT became a masterclass in precision. The development team slammed everything as low as physically possible—driver included—to create nearly identical centres of gravity for human and machine. Heavy components like the dry-sump V8, rear transaxle, torque tube, drive battery, and fuel tank were positioned to deliver a 45:55 weight split and the kind of balance you normally only feel in full-blown race cars. A newly designed double-wishbone suspension on forged aluminium arms, bespoke Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tyres, and Brembo carbon discs dial things in even further, all refined with pro drivers across simulators and real-world runs. Inside, it’s driver-first: perfect sightlines, intuitive switchgear, and ergonomics shaped by people who live on the limit. Together, the GR GT and GR GT3 aren’t just new halo cars—they’re Toyota’s declaration that the art of building wild, emotional, engineering-led performance cars is here to stay, and the next generation is already taking the wheel.
Take a look at the YouTube video from the worldwide online reveal of these new TGR models that will most certainly shake up the respective classses that these cars will play in: GR GT, GR GT3, and Lexus LFA Concept World Premiere | Toyota Motor Corporation
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