Toyota GR GT

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It’s a two seat, 4.0-litre V8 twin turbo with rear wheel drive and a glancing blow from a mild hybrid system that’s small enough to barely count as electric. There’s an eight speed auto with paddles, tightened up with a wet-start clutch instead of a gluey torque converter, 641bhp, 627lb ft of torque, and it weighs 1,750kg. Although TGR is still being remarkably cagey about specifics and keeps putting brackets after everything. The power figure brackets basically said ‘or a bit more’ and the weight brackets ‘or a bit less’.

Based on those metrics, you’re probably looking at 0–62mph in under four seconds, and although the 199mph top speed was quoted, the inevitable brackets (‘or more’) indicated that this will be a 200mph car. We’re kinda reading between the lines here, but it’s not exactly invisible ink. It’s also not that prescient to note that there’s probably quite a lot of headroom possible in those figures.

But what we’re looking at is an all new super sports car with a bellyful of brand new V8. Which, given the current climate feels joyous, a bit mad and utterly wonderful, if not destined for excessive production longevity. It’s also not a special, or limited run, and likely to be priced in the realms of other cars a bit like this – think obvious stuff like that Mercedes-AMG GT, or various Porsche products – and therefore sits quite comfortably in the ‘possible’ range of achievable aspiration – think £160k-ish.

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