That is the Toyota GR Yaris M Idea, and the very first thing it’s good to find out about it’s it’ll compete within the Tremendous Taikyu endurance racing sequence. The second factor is that in contrast to a common GR Yaris, the M Idea doesn’t have an engine below its entrance bonnet.
Opening the tailgate, you’ll discover the engine now sits behind the rear seats to create a midship structure versus a front-engine one, but it surely isn’t the G16E-GTS 1.6 litre turbocharged inline-three petrol unit present in the usual automobile.
As a substitute, it is a new 2.0 litre turbocharged inline-four petrol engine that Toyota is presently creating however isn’t offering a lot in the best way of technical particulars. The one factor we’re being instructed is that by way of the extremely demanding world of endurance racing, engineers will repeatedly “break and repair” the automobile (and its engine) as a part of the event course of.
Toyota says that is a part of its “driver-first” strategy to automobile making that takes into consideration suggestions from Morizo (that’s Toyota chairman Akio Toyoda’s racing pseudonym), skilled drivers and gentleman drivers.
Lengthy-time Toyota followers will discover the thought of the GR Yaris M Idea to be a well-known one, as the corporate did one thing related again in 2008 when it unveiled the Aygo Loopy. Nicknamed the “buying supercar,” the one-off idea was primarily based on the Aygo metropolis automobile and had its small-displacement engine ripped out and changed with a bigger 1.8 litre VVT-i unit.
A turbo equipment was added to spice up energy and the engine was rear-mounted, with drive going to the rear wheels through a five-speed handbook transmission. In its inventory kind, the 1ZZ-FE engine (minus the turbo) powered the ultimate era of the Celica and MR2.
On the point out of the MR2, it has been closely rumoured for a while that Toyota plans to revive the long-lasting nameplate. The truth is, the corporate even hinted final yr on the MR2’s return to the line-up in its promotional anime sequence, though there was no official phrase simply but.
Whereas the reveal of the M Idea could also be checked out as Toyota’s try at making a “Loopy” model of the GR Yaris, it might very properly be a check mule for the MR2 revival. It was beforehand reported that the fourth-generation MR2 would get an all-new 2.0 litre turbocharged engine developed in partnership with Subaru and Mazda, with a goal of 400 PS (395 hp or 294 kW) and 550 Nm of torque.
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