Toyota Is Testing An EV GR Sports activities Automobile

Proper now, it is unclear whether or not the recent GR EV will take the type of a standard sports activities automobile, a hatchback, or one thing else altogether. Chairman Toyoda implied that it will be visually distinctive from the corporate’s present lineup, in accordance with Highway & Monitor.

“Should you put that automobile in entrance of somebody and say, check drive this, after which ask what powertrain that is, they in all probability will not have the ability to reply appropriately,” Toyoda mentioned to the automotive press via a translator. “However in the event you have a look at the automobile from the skin, the looks is [that of] a BEV.”

In 2021, Toyota held a media occasion to preview 15 new all-electric idea automobiles, together with a yellow targa-roofed sports activities automobile with GR branding (pictured). Though among the prototypes from that occasion have progressed to manufacturing automobiles, the sports activities EV hasn’t resurfaced as but. Nevertheless, it will definitely be thrilling if that is the platform that Chairman Toyoda is hinting at.