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It wasn’t just altered Lexus offerings to be found at the recently concluded Tokyo Auto Salon – the event also saw an interesting mix of tuned and tweaked Toyota vehicles. The posse, some more radical than others, was led by a pumped-up, track-ready interpretation of the iQ city car.
Forget cute and cuddly – the GRMN (Gazoo Racing tuned by MN) iQ Racing Concept is a beefed-up take of the tiniest Toyota; with a deep front air dam, huge lower air intake and racing wheels, as well as a tuned supercharged engine and a roll-cage, this iQ looks like it could definitely kick some, in a Mighty Mouse sort of way.
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Gazoo, which you might know as the company that prepped Toyota’s LFAs for last year’s 24 Hours Nurburgring, offered a previous iQ concept in 2009 – the car was given a limited production run in Japan, and sold out immediately, so if you’re thinking what they’re thinking…
G Sports (G’s) contribution to the Toyota presentation was through its Sports Concept version of the Prius (well, yes, imagine! Wonder what the fuel economy is like), with Toyota’s in-house crew at TRD adding an Auris GT Concept, loaded with lots of aerodynamic kit bits, in the mix.
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As well as the cars, Toyota did the interactive run in a big way at the show, including forums with engineers and racing drivers and virtual driving competitions in Metapolis, an on-line community created by Gazoo Racing.
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Alamak, the Prius looks like a Ford…
eeh..x pn.
I don’t care much about it looks, but I do know if its Toyota, I got a super quality car with my hard earned money.
are you being sarcastic?
quality la sgt………
Is that the best you can produce toyota? heheh
Toyota phailed! our Cusco Neo is far better than their junk!
prfffh………
It sad to see Toyota is trying to copy Renault
it is sad to see that Toyota is copying Renault
The iQ photo , photoshopped until the brush lines can see lor , around the car .
this is racing concept? come on toyota…girl car cannot make racing concept lar… find macho car please…