The event of Toyota’s deliberate GR Tremendous Sport hypercar is reported to have been placed on ice following a severe accident throughout prototype testing.
A check mule for the 986bhp hybrid hypercar reportedly caught fireplace and suffered severe injury throughout a check at Japan’s Fuji Speedway final month.
Japanese media allege the highway automobile programme has been cancelled fully, though growth of Toyota’s GR010 Le Mans hypercar must be unaffected, in accordance with motorsport publication Racer. Autocar contacted Toyota, however the firm had no official remark to supply.
The rear-wheel-drive, two-seat GR Tremendous Sport was introduced in 2018, when Le Mans laws for the FIA World Endurance Championship required producers to base racers on road-legal automobiles.
New guidelines eliminated the necessity for Toyota to supply the GR Tremendous Sport for homologation causes, however the agency dedicated to producing the automobile as a limited-run halo mannequin, so the GR010’s readiness for the well-known endurance occasion ought to stay unaffected.
It was deliberate that the GR Tremendous Sport can be pushed by a road-tuned model of the present TS050 Hybrid racer’s electrified 2.4-litre twin-turbo V6.
Toyota didn’t element how the highway automobile’s hybrid system labored or what number of electrical motors it featured, solely beforehand revealing a deliberate output of 986bhp, a determine to match the GR010 Le Mans racer on which it’s primarily based.
Different particulars additionally remained below wraps, together with pricing data and manufacturing numbers, however the automobile was going to be bought as a coupé, doubtlessly with an unconventional canopy-style opening roof.
Toyota had not too long ago requested potential house owners to finish a questionnaire, enquiring about which automobiles they already personal and plan to purchase, in the event that they owned a Toyota 2000GT or Lexus LFA, and in the event that they recurrently drive on circuits and maintain a racing licence.
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