GR summit reached: Toyota Exec rules-out extra Gazoo Racing fashions

Toyota has reportedly put a lid on strategies of extra fashions receiving the Gazoo Racing (GR) remedy after confirming that it’s going to produce no different fashions bar the present vary consisting of the GR Yaris, GR Corolla, GR86 and GR Supra.

Regardless of reviews earlier this yr alleging the doable introduction of sedan-based GR mannequin, Chief Engineer for the GR86, Yasunori Suezawa, advised Australia’s drive.com.au that it received’t be commissioning one other GR mannequin now that the GR86 has premiered.

_{GR Yaris has smash-hit globally.}

“There’s none left truly. For the GR [performance brand], mainly this [the GR86] is the final,” Suezawa stated through an interpreter.

Regardless of asserting the enlargement of the GR Sport division, which falls under the GR and flagship GRMN designations within the Gazoo Racing construction, Suezawa’s feedback seemingly spells not solely the tip for a sensible GR mannequin, but additionally the a lot reported on GR Hilux predicted to have rivalled the Ford Ranger Raptor.

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Supposedly set to have derived motivation from a turbocharged petrol engine or the three.3-litre turbodiesel V6 from the Land Cruiser that allegedly would have pumped-out 230kW/687Nm, the obvious cancellation successfully confirms feedback made again in Could by Toyota’s Gentle Business Automobiles Supervisor for the UK, Gareth Matthews, who advised Auto Specific that no GR mannequin would sit above the Hilux GR Sport at any stage.

“The GR Sport has the appears to be like that clients need whereas nonetheless having the proper payload weight, so we’re assembly the calls for of efficiency followers there,” Matthews advised the publication.

_{GR Corolla is at the moment being investigated for South Africa.}

As effectively the GR Hilux, which might have debuted not lengthy after the usual Hilux and its twin, the at the moment being examined all-new Tacoma, a return of the MR2 seems cut-and-shut after being branded “not a precedence” by Toyota’s European Vice-President of Gross sales, Matt Harrison, in 2020.

The identical seemingly additionally applies to the still-born Celica regardless of patents for the moniker’s return having surfaced in the USA 5 years in the past and in Australia final yr.

_{Upgraded 285 kW Supra, in addition to the six-speed guide spinoff, will each come to South Africa subsequent yr.}

As is thought by now, Toyota South Africa will complement the Corolla Cross GR Sport with a localised model of the Hilux GR Sport that produces 165kW/550Nm from the two.8 GD-6 turbodiesel engine.

Scheduled to have premiered alongside the GR86 on the Kyalami Pageant of Motoring two months in the past, the GR Supra line-up will solely be broadened subsequent yr with the inclusion of the six-speed guide gearbox and the upgraded 285kW/500Nm 3.0-litre B58 straight-six engine, whereas the GR86 itself seems on the playing cards for a November 2022 unveiling.

_{GR86 has been tipped to turn into obtainable in South Africa in November.}

The supply of the remaining GR fashions are simply as clear-cut with the GR Yaris now on-sale after receiving a rationalised mannequin replace three months in the past, whereas the GR Corolla stays “underneath investigation” and unlikely to turn into a actuality this yr.

Originally published at Irvine News HQ