Get Your GT 86/FR-S Track Ready: Five Things to Consider Before Hitting the Racetrack
14 Feb 2014, 19:16 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The 2014 Toyota GT 86/Scion FR-S has been engineered to offer an increased amount of fun for the money you pay. It’s a perfect coupe for daily driving but it can also double as a track car for...
EKanoo 2JZ-Powered GT 86 Breaks Driveshaft in 4th Gear
11 Feb 2014, 13:43 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Everyone knows about how powerful a 2JZ engine gets if you fit it the right parts and force more air and fuel into it. So powerful that it can break your transmission if you’re not careful. ...
Toyota 86 TRD Griffon Concept Doing a Fast Lap at Tsukuba
11 Feb 2014, 12:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / In Time Attack races all you need to worry about are the seconds on the stopwatch... to keep the time as low as you can when crossing the finish line. And the 86 TRD Griffon concept appears to be th...
Initial D Movie Arriving in August
11 Feb 2014, 10:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / We were telling you last year that the famous Japanese manga series Initial D will come to an end soon, with the possibility of a full movie to be made as a tribute to the whole story. Well, it l...
Toyota Becomes First Founding Partner of Historic Daytona Rising Project
7 Feb 2014, 08:52 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / International Speedway Corporation (NASDAQ Global Select Market) just announced a groundbreaking, multi-year partnership with Toyota Motor Sales (TMS) US that will make Toyota the first Founding Par...
Toyota Announcing Motorsport Activities for 2014
31 Jan 2014, 13:38 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota will continue to race in almost all major motorsport competitions in 2014, starting with NASCAR and ending with the Japanese Super GT series. The Japanese automaker’s racing division...
Toyota 2014 TS040 Hybrid Prototype Teased
30 Jan 2014, 09:42 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota announced at the end of last year that it will continue to race in the World Endurance Championship, putting out both of its teams in upgraded TS040 Hybrid LMP1 prototypes. With the cars b...
Toyota Outlines 2014 Motorsports Activities
30 Jan 2014, 09:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) just announced that its community-based motorsports activities through Lexus Racing and Toyota Racing will continue in various locations for CY2014. In the eyes of ...
Check Out the 86 TRD Griffon in New Clip
28 Jan 2014, 17:05 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / TRD recently posted this new video to showcase its 86 Griffon Concept and show its track capabilities. Debuting last year at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the TRD 86 Griffon was specially desig...
Toyota FT-1 Looks Awesome in TRD Livery
28 Jan 2014, 16:51 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / After seeing the recently unveiled Toyota FT-1 in Zent’s GT500 livery and the other one in plain yellow, here’s a new one showing the concept in TRD’s official colors. And we go...
Real Street Performance Toyota Supra Going Eights
23 Jan 2014, 13:52 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Well, it’s not like Ekanoo’s Supra IRS, but this Supra can go pretty fast on the quarter mile and it’s a real tire bender as you’ll see it on the dyno bellow. Ekanoo&rsquo...
1999 Toyota Starlet Is Almost a Ten-Second Car
22 Jan 2014, 14:40 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Apart from those Hoosier fat tires at the front, this 1999 Toyota Starlet appears to be the ultimate sleeper. Who would have imagined that a car so common-looking can run a quarter mile in 11 second...
More Photos With the Lexus LFA Code X
22 Jan 2014, 10:15 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / As we were telling you earlier, Toyota Motor Corp. has announced that Gazoo Racing will attend this year’s 24h Hours Nurburgring endurance race by coming with three racecars. Along with the...
Watch How Fast This Toyota Supra Reaches 300 km/h
21 Jan 2014, 13:37 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / We’ve all seen highly-modified Toyota Supras speeding on the quarter mile, but all the filming was done mostly from the outside of the car. It’s not really a bad thing, but you really...
Drifting Toyota GT 86 in Opposite Lock Looks Awesome
21 Jan 2014, 13:04 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The Toyota GT 86 is pretty much like its Supra ancestor - sleek, good looking, well balanced but not too fast. However, if you know what parts to add, the car turns into a supercar-shredder, and ...
Toyota Celica IMSA GTO Sold for Over $240,000
20 Jan 2014, 17:11 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota and Al American Racers (AAR) formed a team back in 1983 to compete in the series’ entry level GTU class and after a successful run, the group decided to move into the higher GTO class. ...
Toyota Celebrating 2014 Dakar Rally Finish
19 Jan 2014, 12:17 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota is now celebrating its strong finish in the 2014 Dakar Rally, with De Villiers and Von Zitzewitz wining the final stage and posting a fourth overall position in the race, while Poulter and Ho...
Toyota Dakar Team Speaking About Suspension
17 Jan 2014, 18:29 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The engine in Toyota’s Hilux Dakar rally car is not the only major component that has to resist the punishment of the harsh desert - suspension needs to do that too. The suspension system o...
Toyota Unveiling TS040 LMP1 Car in March
17 Jan 2014, 17:51 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / At the end of last year, Toyota confirmed that it will continue to race in the next World Endurance Championship with two TS040 Hybrid LMP1 cars using the same drivers as in the last season. Now it ...
Toyota FT-1 GT500 Racecar Rendered
17 Jan 2014, 16:50 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Well, since the Zent GT500 team has now ditched the SC model for another racecar based on the recently revealed RC F to race the next season, let’s have an imagination exercise and think of an...