Toyota Motorsport: June 2012

Friday, June 29, 2012

Twincharged GT86? New Toyota GRMN concept

On Goodwood festival was present new Toyota 315hp concept GRMN. Basically overcharged version of GT86. Please, see below photo and technical data.

Engine type

Horizontally opposed 2.0-litre 16-valve

Engine displacement

1,998 cc

Maximum power

315hp/235kW

Maximum torque

421Nm

Transmission

6-speed manual

For more informacion please check source: http://blog.toyota.eu/2012/06/27/twincharged-grmn-sports-fr-concept-at-goodwood-2/

Friday, June 22, 2012

Toyota GT 86 Gazoo Racing Rally Car

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

GT86 Engine and drivetrain

This is nice video showing and explaining GT86 engine and drivetrain.

Friday, June 15, 2012

Fredric Aasbo doing a 2JZ swap in the Speedhunters Toyota 86-X GT86 (Scion FRS)

24h Le Mans Great Qualification for Toyota

Toyota is back in motorsport with great car as it qualified on 3rd and 5th place for Saturday/Sunday race only 1.055s behind pole position.

http://www.lemans.org/wpphpFichiers/1/1/ressources/Pdf/2012/24-heures-du-mans/classification/24-heures-du-mans-2012-qualifying-practice-combined.pdf

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Monday, June 11, 2012

Some nice tuning for Toyota GT86

Sunday, June 10, 2012

CHRIS HARRIS ON CARS

One of the first and coolist reviews of new GT86. Please, enjoy the video. Love it!

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Toyota Racing new shop

Toyota Motorsport genuine merchandise is again available. As Toyota is preparing for next weekend 24h race in Le Mans new shop was launched for Toyota motor sport fans. Looking forward! My F1 Toyota apparel is already quite used so it is just in time!

You will find more information here:

Shop

Press release

Number 86 in its name

By owners and fans called/pronounced “hachiroku” (that in Japanese means 86; hachi=8 and roku=6 ). For the name of new model Toyota had two reasons to use 86:

Connection with history
Connection with technical parameters of new model

History

First of them is clear connection with Toyota history of producing sport's cars. It connects new model to its predecessor Toyota AE86 that is still very popular among motorsport and especially drift fans. This car was pure fun to drive and allowed its owners to customize and tune it. We can say that AE86 was tuned by its owners to perfection either by genuine or third party accessories and kits. Even these days you can see Toyota AE86 competing

(source: Toyota)

Technical parameters

As the name of many sports cars is derived at least partially from their technical parameters the same is truth for Toyota GT86. In case of GT86 86 re presents 86mm of bore and stroke of its boxer engine. Furthermore you can find that 86mm is exact size of some other components of this model as diameter of exhaust or of ventilation rings.

86 mm bore and 86 mm stroke

86 mm is inner diameter of the GT86’s chrome-tipped exhaust
86 mm is diameter of ventilation rings

86 mm chrome-tipped exhaust

86 mm is diameter of ventilation rings

86 mm bore and 86 mm stroke

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

GT86 Badge

Toyota GT86 badge or logo have several meanings. First of all it is alphanumerical expression of the name of them model but there is something more than that. It represents the DNA of the car itself - that is fun to drive. 86 on the badge is not only expression of the name of the model but graphically as well represents 4 wheels in drift.

History of Toyota GT86

The feasibility study of the GT86 project began in 2006, with Toyota playing the leading role in both the Product Planning and Design phases. Collaborating as ‘Team 86’, Toyota and Subaru shared responsibility for the Development programme.

FT-HS (source: Toyota)

Subaru played the leading role in Engineering Design, with Toyota technologies and know-how employed in vehicle fundamentals such as the engine, transmission and suspension. At the Evaluation stage, both Toyota and Subaru worked together on roads and race tracks around the world to refine the vehicle’s performance and dynamic abilities.