- Toyota has launched a brand new GR86 Rally Legacy idea for SEMA 2024.
- It makes use of the GR Corolla’s three-cylinder engine making 300 horsepower and 273 pound-feet of torque.
- It additionally borrows the GR Corolla’s all-wheel-drive system and has a sequential racing gearbox.
Toyota is pulling out all of the stops for SEMA—because it normally does. We have already seen the 4Runner TRD Surf, the Land Cruiser Rox, and a handful of different off-road-equipped vans headed for Vegas. Now the corporate is throwing it again to the glory days of the Nineteen Eighties with a rally-inspired GR86 idea.
The GR86 Rally Legacy idea debuts at SEMA this week. It has all-wheel drive and a extra highly effective turbocharged engine, plus a full Castrol-style rally livery with crimson mud flaps, white wheels, and a race-ready cabin with little. It has Sparco racing seats, a Sparco steering wheel, a roll cage… and that is about it.
Picture by: Toyota
Picture by: Toyota
Below the hood is the GR Corolla’s turbocharged 1.6-liter three-cylinder engine. It makes 300 horsepower and 273 pound-feet of torque, matching the manufacturing GR Corolla—however Toyota says it is able to much more. Pictures present a sequential racing gearbox, which implies no handbook, however the GR86 idea does no less than undertake the Corolla’s all-wheel-drive system.
However becoming the GR86 with the GR Corolla’s engine and all-wheel-drive system was no straightforward activity. Engineers needed to modify the GR86’s chassis to suit the taller, transverse-mounted engine with a customized subframe and engine mounts. Including the cumbersome all-wheel-drive system, in the meantime, meant including the Corolla’s hubs, spindles, and axles to get energy to the entrance wheels.
The GR86 additionally borrows the GR Corollas rear differential and housing to take care of its manufacturing unit gear ratios, and it has nifty center-mounted twin exhaust ideas that simply look cool.
You gained’t be capable to purchase one, in fact. The complexity of the venture tells us that Toyota has no plans to place it into manufacturing. However for those who occur to be at SEMA this week, you’ll be capable to see the GR86 Rally Legacy on the Toyota sales space alongside the model’s different superior ideas.
Doorways to the Las Vegas Conference Heart open on November 5.
