Toyota Could Unveil its Next Sports Car on Monday, Among Many others

• The company posted an image with all of its brand’s logos and the date of October 13^th.

• This suggests Toyota, Lexus, GR, Century, and Daihatsu will all have something to show.

• One of these concepts is expected to be the GR GT3 race car, precursor to the next Lexus Sports car.

Next Monday is looking to be a busy day at Toyota, as the automaker’s five Japanese-market brands are expected to unveil something then.

Indeed, a teaser has been added to the company’s global media site which shows the Toyota logo, the Lexus logo, the Century logo, the GR logo, and the Daihatsu logo over a link that reads something like “10.13 13:00, Toyota Times reveals the whole story.”

This link goes to the Toyota Times YouTube channel, where a pending livestream is set up for October 12, 11:59 pm Eastern Time.

The fact that all five of the automaker’s Japanese brands are included on the picture suggests that all of them will have something to show or announce on that day, but we don’t know what yet.

We have a good idea what to expect from GR, however.

Indeed, Toyota’s performance division is likely to unveil the GR GT3 race car, which will eventually be turned into the production version of the next Lexus Sports car.

Hinting at this is a short text that appears next to the link, which when translated from Japanese, reads: “The sign at Fuji Speedway has changed. On the left is the 2000 GT, next to it is LFA, next to that…?”

Given that the Toyota 2000 GT and the Lexus LFA are two of the most iconic sports cars ever produced by the automaker and its subsidiaries, it would make sense for the third car to be the GR GT3.

The timing seems to point in the same direction as well, since this model will make its debut at the Daytona 24 hours in January.

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Another hint is that this race car will give birth to the production version of the Lexus LFR concept, a sports car that is meant to be the spiritual successor of the LFA.

Few details are known about the upcoming Lexus sports car, except that it will likely have a hybrid V8 powertrain under the hood.

This was deduced from prototypes that were spotted around the Nürburgring in Germany over the past few months. Their rear window was adorned with a yellow sticker that denotes high-voltage electric systems, but their exhaust note suggested an eight-cylinder engine.

Source: Motor 1.com