Toyota GR GT3 Concept A Flagship For Performance

Toyota came up with the GR GT3 Concept racer designed to compete in the entry-level class of racing series such as the Australian GT Championship and the Le Mans 24 Hours. Going by the class rules, which stipulate that GT3 racers must be based on production cars.

The GT3 concept which comes under the same business model as the GR Yaris is more than qualified. The brand says it will “commercialize its motorsports cars, rather than simply adapting production vehicles for use in motorsports.”

The GR Yaris spawned a production variant to meet the homologation rules of the racing series with its rallying design. The GR GT3 is certainly towing the same path but this time, with a road-going model that will closely follow behind the racer.

The brand has not made any pronouncement on the GR GT3 Concept powertrain. All we can say is that the car will come with some form of a combustion engine, as hinted by the exhaust poking out of the side skirt, just behind the front wheel. Given the length of that bonnet, we also expect the engine has been pushed as far back in the chassis as possible, for better weight distribution. The GR GT3 concept looks to share nothing with any existing Toyota (or Lexus) product, despite having two front-engine rear-wheel-drive coupes already in production.

The GR Exterior Design
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Give it to Toyota when it comes to the exterior styling of their race cars as the GR GT3 Concept features an extreme cab-rear silhouette with a long bonnet and short tail, not dissimilar to an AMG GT. The Concept’s actual bodywork is superbly resolved, with an extremely clean surfacing that is very distinctive from the current Toyota design language.

By the side of the car is a crisp split-line that runs alongside from the front arch and terminate at the door handle that also hides away the clamshell shutline, while the front-ends almost faceless aesthetic has a broad opening hiding the headlight elements, with cooling dealt with by a single central opening.

The rear end looks especially interesting, as underneath the huge rear wing also sits an aggressively integrated ducktail that borders the rear screen, itself subtly wrapping around the side of the car – similar in effect to an Alpine A110 or even the FD Mazda RX-7.

There are plenty of GT3-typical aero elements such as the tall rear wing and pressure-relief vents on the front wheel arches, a side-mounted exhaust outlet on the layered side sill that doesn’t look dissimilar to the one on an Aston Martin Vulcan.

The GR Interior
We expect the GR to come with all the standard features such as an FIA-approved racing seat and harness set-up, a full roll-cage, next to no interior trim, and a steering wheel with more buttons on it than an Xbox controller.

The GR Powertrain
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The brand has not made any pronouncement on the GR GT3 Concept powertrain. All we can say is that the car will come with some form of a combustion engine, as hinted by the exhaust poking out of the side skirt, just behind the front wheel. Given the length of that bonnet, we also expect the engine has been pushed as far back in the chassis as possible, for better weight distribution.

The GR GT3 could be served by Toyota’s twin-turbocharged 3-liter V6 which is still underutilized within the global range, and rumors persist of a twin-turbo V8 being in development for a Lexus halo model which could also fit the bill.

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