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The Toyota GR Supra may be on the way out, but the automaker has already found something to take its place.
On Friday, the Japanese marque pulled back the curtain on the GR GT, an all-new high-performance model that it has been teasing since the start of the decade. The two-door will be the brand’s new flagship supercar and is set to go head-to-head with vehicles like the Mercedes-AMG GT.
Like the 2000GT and Lexus LFA before it, the new GR GT (the GR stands for Gazoo Racing, Toyota’s performance division) is, for all intents and purposes, a street-legal race car. It was designed with three key elements in mind—maintaining a low center of gravity, keeping weight down, and maximizing aerodynamic performance—and is meant to signify the automaker’s continued commitment to prioritizing the driving experience and building “ever-better motorsport-bred cars.”
As such, it’s little surprise that the GR GT has all the makings of a true beast. It, and the GR GT3 race car it was developed alongside, are powered by a 4.0-liter twin-turbocharged V-8. We’ll have to wait to find out just how powerful that engine is, but in the road car, where it is accompanied by an electric motor, it will make at least 641 hp and 627 ft lbs of torque, which will be sent to the back wheels via a rear-mounted, eight-speed automatic gearbox. In comparison, the LFA—a successor to which was also unveiled in concept form on Friday—was powered by a V-10 that made 553 hp and 354 ft lbs of torque. So yeah, it’s going to be plenty potent. Toyota also says it expects a top speed of at least 199 mph.
The GR GT’s hybrid powertrain is far from its only noteworthy mechanical feature. The car will also mark the first time that the automaker has used an all-aluminum frame for one of its vehicles. This element is both lightweight and rigid, which will help maximize overall aerodynamic performance. The suspension, meanwhile, is a newly designed low-mounted, double-wishbone system meant to deliver better control when you’re driving to work or pushing the car to the max at the track. Finally, the vehicle’s brakes feature Brembo carbon discs, and it will ride on a set of tailor-made Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires.
The car that Toyota showed off on Friday is a prototype, but it shouldn’t look much different from the finished version. The GR GT is the most aggressive car we’ve seen come from Toyota in quite some time. It’s low-slung and features a sharp-lined carbon-fiber body with an especially long hood. It looks fast, even without the GR GT3’s outlandish aero kit. Inside, the vehicle features a surprisingly elegant driver-centric layout that’ll look familiar to anyone who’s driven the LFA (or just looked at pictures of its cabin) and comes equipped with two carbon-packed Recaro bucket seats.
One thing missing from the exterior and interior of the GR GT prototype are Toyota logos. That’s because the automaker is spinning off its Gazoo Racing division as its own brand when its new supercar launches, just as it announced it was doing with the Century earlier this fall. We’re still waiting to find out when exactly that will be, along with the cost of the vehicle, though a price in the mid-six figures seems likely.
Click here for more photos of the Toyota GR GT.
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Bryan Hood is a digital staff writer at Robb Report. Before joining the magazine, he worked for the New York Post, Artinfo and New York magazine, where he covered everything from celebrity gossip to…
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