After displaying off a scale mannequin of its GEN3 GR Supra Supercar final month, Toyota has now revealed a full-sized mannequin… fabricated from clay.
Revealed on the Bathurst 1000, half of the ‘Supracar’ is completed in a Toyota Gazoo Racing livery, whereas the opposite is nearly solely uncovered clay.
Toyota will enter the racer – the correct steel model, not the clay model – within the 2026 Australian Supercars Championship.
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The Melbourne-based Toyota Design Australia crew “reimagined” the design of the Supra, giving it a extra outstanding ‘boat nostril’ that attracts inspiration from the 2014 FT-1 Supra idea, in addition to huge fenders, a entrance splitter and rear diffuser, and a big rear wing.
It’s nonetheless instantly recognisable as a GR Supra by particulars like its lights. Toyota has even included the street automobile’s mannequin code, A90, on the windscreen.
“We’re lovers at first, and the GR Supra Supercar is the form of mission we dream about engaged on,” stated Toyota Design Australia senior supervisor Nic Hogios.
“We will’t wait to see it competing and profitable in Supercars, together with proper right here at Bathurst.”
However Toyota’s long-awaited entry into Supercars isn’t only for the corporate to be ok with itself.
Toyota says the Supercars championship, as with different racing and rallying collection it participates in world wide, will present technical learnings that can be utilized within the growth of its total vary of automobiles.
It additionally says its entry will assist it construct ardour amongst lovers for its GR vary of efficiency automobiles.
“We noticed a possibility to essentially stamp Toyota’s credentials once more on motorsport in Australia,” stated Sean Hanley, Toyota Australia vp for gross sales, advertising and franchise operations in September.
“We need to present the world, we need to present Australia, we are able to really do that. We generally is a aggressive participant on this house.
“We do an awesome job in all the opposite merchandise, however we’ve solely been out there for a small period of time with GR, and now we need to show to the world it is a truthful dinkum racing and efficiency model.
“Another excuse we’re interested in Supercars is that it appeals to Australia’s heartland. As such, it should expose Toyota’s ardour and our pleasure to extra Australians than ever earlier than.”
In brief, Toyota says it might probably use Supercars as a “touring motor present” to permit it to advertise its vary of automobiles and doubtlessly convey new folks to the model.
The GR Supra that’ll head to the observe has a significantly completely different beating coronary heart underneath the bonnet from the automobile present in showrooms.
The inline-six of the street automobile has been ditched for a 5.0-litre V8, with Toyota confirming it was at all times the plan to have a bent-eight underneath the bonnet.
Two examples of the GEN3 GR Supra Supercar might be fielded by Walkinshaw Andretti United (WAU), with one other crew additionally anticipated to race a few examples of the automobile in opposition to rival groups in Ford Mustangs and Chevrolet Camaros.
Toyota has dedicated to a minimal timeline of 5 years in Supercars.
“We’re not a short-term participant, we’re not coming in simply to be a PR stunt, we’re coming in as a result of we need to do effectively – we all know we’ve received to earn our proper, we perceive that,” stated Mr Hanley.
“Successful’s not a proper, profitable is earned, and we predict we’re with the perfect crew to try this, we’ve received the perfect backing in our personal organisation each globally and domestically.”
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GR Supra street automobile
Toyota says it by no means thought of every other car than the GR Supra for its upcoming entry into Supercars.
That’s regardless of abroad reviews suggesting the Supra is dealing with the chopping block in 2026, although it could hardly be the primary time a defunct car had a Supercars counterpart in competitors – living proof, the Chevrolet Camaro.
“Automobiles come and go, however that gained’t diminish our dedication to motorsport or Supercars. Supra can go on for a lot of, a few years. It’s an awesome automobile,” stated Mr Hanley.
“There’s no discuss for the time being about us stopping it, however even when that day does come, then we transfer on to the following one.”
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