Last month, a rumour suggested that the road-going Toyota GR hypercar had been cancelled due to a severe crash at Fuji Speedway. A publication reported that the prototype went up in flames after losing control on the circuit.
A new comment sourced by The Drive suggests that the road-going Toyota GR hypercar may still be under consideration. Toyota Motorsports Communications representative Sam Mahoney stated to the publication that, “The GR Super Sport remains a concept at this time while Toyota studies the potential commercialisation of this car.”
This quote isn’t a clear indication of whether we will get to see a final product of the Toyota GR hypercar for the road but it doesn’t necessarily say that the idea has been scrapped altogether.
In 2018, the Toyota GR road-going hypercar was teased in the guise of the Japanese manufacturer’s Super Sport concept with the understanding that it would be a supplementary product to its racecar alternative that would be competing in the WEC’s new Le Mans Hypercar discipline.
The Toyota GR Super Sport was originally developed as a road-going version of Toyota’s Le Mans race car, but since the LMH class has been curtailed with a power limit of 500 kW, Toyota then reportedly decided to go a different route with this hypercar.
Whereas the 2021 GR010 Hybrid Le Mans Hypercar is fitted with a new 3,5-litre twin-turbo V6 hybrid powertrain, the GR Super Sport road car was understood to be powered by a version of the old 2,4-litre twin-turbo motor. Previously it was expected that the engine would produce in the region of 735 kW but a rumour suggested that it could in fact offer even more than that thanks to a new triple-motor hybrid system.
