Toyota Will Continue Developing GR Sports Cars Under New CEO

Though it’s agelong been known for gathering sensible, reliable cars, Toyota has emerged arsenic an enthusiasts’ state successful caller years. The marque created the GR Yaris for different countries, but present successful the States, we’ve got the GR 86, GR Corolla, and GR Supra, making Toyota 1 of our much performance-forward automakers. That could continue, arsenic incoming CEO Koji Sato precocious said the company’s erstwhile CEO and well-known gearhead mightiness person much clip to make accelerated cars. 

Sato made the remarks astatine the World Endurance Championship contention successful Belgium this past weekend. The enforcement made it wide that Toyota is committed to Gazoo Racing (GR) and volition proceed processing vehicles nether the sub-brand. He thinks the company’s outgoing CEO, Akio Toyoda, could assistance accelerate improvement with his newfound spare time. Speaking of Toyoda, besides known arsenic Master Driver, helium said, “our Master Driver was besides president of the institution astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic helium had a steering instrumentality successful his manus for Gazoo. Now helium is lone president and possibly helium volition person a batch much clip to make cars for them.”

Though exciting, there’s nary telling what this could mean for Toyota’s sports cars successful North America and beyond. The automaker has flirted with gathering show electrical vehicles, including a hotter mentation of the bZ4X crossover, but thing steadfast has been announced. Lexus is besides eying speed, and we’ve seen its electrical LFA successor respective times astatine car shows and events. 

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