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Chris Harris Treats The Toyota GR Yaris Like The Rally Car For The Road That It Is

Don’t let the size, tiny, but punchy, three-cylinder engine and aggressive styling mislead you. The Toyota GR Yaris isn’t your typical hot hatch, but rather the closest thing to a rally car for the road that money can buy today.

While the regular Yaris is built around the GA-B platform, the 257 HP and 266 lb-ft (360 Nm) of torque, 1.6-liter turbo-three-powered GR model uses a combination of the GA-B and GA-C architectures, with the latter normally underpinning models such as the Corolla, Prius and Lexus UX.

Driven: 2021 Toyota GR Yaris Is A Great Hot Hatch, But We Do Have Some Gripes

This was mandatory for the implementation of an all-wheel drive system, which, together with the short wheelbase, wide tracks and sticky tires, make it an absolute marvel around corners. Engaging the sport driving mode makes it oversteer at will, encouraging the driver to keep the throttle down.

This is something that Chris Harris learned the fun way while driving Toyota’s homologation special on Top Gear. The model, which does the nought to 62 mph (0-100 km/h) in a little over 5 seconds and tops out at 143 mph (230 km/h), will be featured in their Series 30, Episode 4 that airs on Sunday, together with a used sports car guide for the ‘midlife crisis’. This will depict the TVR Chimaera, Vauxhall Monaro and a Toyota MR2 with a Ferrari F355 body kit.

In case you missed it, the popular car show’s previous episode showed an off-road comparison between the Land Rover Defender, Mercedes-AMG G63 and Ariel Nomad R in the Scottish Highlands.

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Lexus LC500 And Toyota Supra Are Very Different Yet Quite Well Matched

The 2021 Lexus LC500 and 2021 Toyota Supra are two hugely desirable cars and while they both come from the conglomerate that is Toyota, they couldn’t be any more different.

Sure, both the LC500 and Supra are sleek two-door coupes that offer superb performance, but they target vastly different buyers. However, this didn’t stop Throttle House from gathering the Japanese duo together for a series of drag races.

Powering the Lexus LC500 is a 5.0-liter naturally aspirated V8 delivering 471 hp and 398 lb-ft (539 Nm) of torque. While this engine is well down on power from the twin-turbocharged and supercharged V8s that the LC’s rivals use, it is still one of the best-sounding engines on the market. Coupled to the engine is a 10-speed automatic transmission powering the rear wheels and, according to Lexus, the coupe can hit 60 mph (96 km/h) in just 4.4 seconds.

By comparison, the latest Supra is powered by a turbocharged 3.0-liter inline-six with 382 hp and 368 lb-ft (499 Nm) of torque. This engine is joined by a ZF eight-speed automatic transmission with rear-wheel drive and results in a 0-60 mph time of 3.9 seconds.

The key reason why the LC500 cannot match the Supra off the line comes down to weight. Whereas the Lexus weighs 4,280 lbs (1,941 kg), the Supra is a relative lightweight at 3,400 lbs (1,542 kg).

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Castrol TOM’s Racing Toyota Supra Found In Storage And Is Being Restored

The iconic Castrol TOM’s Racing Toyota Supra has been found and the racing team has embarked on a project to restore it to its former glory.

This Supra is perhaps the most recognizable vehicle to ever compete in Japan’s Super GT series and was responsible for taking the rivalry between Nissan and Toyota to new heights.

A Redditor first stumbled across an article in Japan asking for donations and detailing the car’s history and the plans to restore it. Following its successful life as a racing car, the vehicle fell off the map until it was found in a storage unit in the Chugoku-region of Japan. It remains unclear just how the car ended up in the storage facility, but it has likely been there for many years. TOM’s Racing is leading the restoration and asking for donations to get it done, creating a crowdfunding campaign asking for 50,000,000 yen ($466,000). At the time of writing, 990,000 yen ($9,233) had been raised.

The team’s first funding goal is 10,000,000 yen ($93,000) and will involve a cosmetic restoration of the exterior and interior. The second funding goal sits at 30,000,000 ($279,000) and will make the car driveable. The ultimate goal of 50,000,000 yen is to get the car back to a race track.

The Castrol TOM’s Racing Supra had its debut during the 1995 All-Japan Grand Touring Car Championship. Competing squarely against the Nissan Skyline of the day, Toyota decided against using the 2JZ engine of the road-going model and instead fitted the race car with the same 2.0-liter, turbocharged 3S-GT powertrain as the Toyota Celica WRC car, which was good for 493 hp and over 442 lb-ft (600 Nm) of torque. The racer scored its maiden win on June 25th, 1995 at the Sendai Hi-Land Raceway, and went on to secure numerous other victories in subsequent seasons of the championship.

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Toyota’s Most Luxurious Model, The Century, Features Japan’s Only Production V12

While German brands like Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Audi largely dominate the premium sedan market, over in Japan there is a home-grown car on the market that’s just as luxurious while still being uniquely Japanese dubbed the Toyota Century. Doug DeMuro recently reviewed a second-generation model.

Toyota built the second-generation Century in Japan between April 1997 and January 2017 and it is loaded with an array of interesting features one wouldn’t ordinarily expect to find in a Toyota.

These unique features start in the second row where Toyota outfitted the Century with cloth seats as opposed to leather. Then there’s the console between the two front seats which rear passengers can open up to reveal a small TV complete with a dedicated remote control. However, the presence of a TV is far from the only weird thing going on in the Century’s cabin.

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Nowadays it is quite common for luxury sedans like this to have the option to move the front passenger seat forward so a rear passenger can recline their seat and stretch out their legs. Rather than doing what most of its rivals have done, Toyota thought up a very Japanese solution that allows a rear seat passenger to pull a handle on the back of the front passenger seat, lowering a section of the front seat to double as a leg rest, allowing you to lie back with your feet going right through the front seat.

Then there’s the powertrain. The second-generation Toyota Century features a 5.0-liter naturally-aspirated V12 engine, the only powertrain of its sort ever developed by the car manufacturer. In early models, this engine was mated to a four-speed automatic transmission while it is paired with a six-speed auto in later models.

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