Toyota's 641-HP GR GT Finally Ran Up Goodwood's Hill — Undisguised, and With a Track-Only GT3 Sibling in Tow
The hybrid V8 supercar and its all-aluminum-chassis racing twin made their European debut at the 2026 Festival of Speed, still targeting a 2027 showroom launch.
Toyota GAZOO Racing brought the GR GT and its track-only GR GT3 sibling to the 2026 Goodwood Festival of Speed for their European debut, showing both cars undisguised in the Supercar Paddock before sending them up the 1.16-mile hillclimb — the first time either had turned a wheel in front of a European crowd since GAZOO Racing's formal world premiere at the Tokyo Auto Salon back in January.
The GR GT is built around a newly developed 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 in a hot-vee, dry-sump configuration, paired with a single electric motor mounted at the rear transaxle purely to fill in torque at low revs rather than to drive the car on its own. Toyota's own development figures put the combined system output at 650 PS or greater — 641 hp and 627 lb-ft in imperial units — though the company is careful to flag those as targets rather than finished numbers, with sign-off still to come before the car reaches showrooms in 2027. Power runs through an 8-speed automatic rear transaxle with a wet-start clutch in place of a torque converter and a mechanical limited-slip differential, and Toyota is targeting a curb weight of 3,858 lbs or less with a near-ideal 45:55 front-to-rear weight distribution — all wrapped in a body barely four feet tall.
The GR GT3 shares that same V8-hybrid architecture but is built to FIA GT3 specification for customer racing, and it takes the engineering a step further: an all-aluminum chassis frame, which Toyota says is a first for the brand. Where the road car uses a carbon-fiber-reinforced-plastic torque tube to connect engine and gearbox, the GT3 racer's aluminum structure is aimed squarely at the stiffness-to-weight demands of GT3 competition rather than road manners.
Toyota didn't send the GR GT twins to Goodwood alone. The brand's stand also carried the GR Yaris Rally1 that's been winning in the World Rally Championship, the DKR GR Hilux from the World Rally-Raid Championship, a RAV4 GR Sport plug-in hybrid, and the GR010 Hybrid that won Le Mans — plus the Lexus LFA Concept, a battery-electric design study previewing where Toyota's luxury brand is headed as GAZOO Racing keeps its own flagship firmly on gasoline and hybrid power.
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