Toyota GT-One street-legal car, so they are no longer built

Posted on 07-02-2016 at 15:58 by MauritsH – 34 Comments”

And that’s a pity.

In the first half of the ’90s were the super-fast Group C racers, thanks to a curtailments relegated to museum pieces. Sin, but Toyota was not throw in the towel and developed the GT-One TS020 in 1998 and 1999 participated in the 24 hours of Le Mans.

The rules prescribed that the GT1 racers in that time space had to have for a suitcase on board, a somewhat artificial way to link up with street-legal car’s. Toyota, however, was so clever to say that the fuel tank in the space provided for luggage, provided that there is no petrol in it. The organization? That was simply agreeing with the reasoning of the Japanese. Nice times.

Of this brutal race car was a grand total of one street version was built (according to some sources two), a little à la the Porsche 911 GT1 of 1998. The peak power of the 3.6-litre twinturbo V8 (with dampers) more than 600 hp at 649 Nm of torque. Both values are remarkably achieved at 6,000 rpm.

Such figures result in combination with the weight of 900 kg in a very decent performance. The GT-One like from 0-100 km/h in 3.6 count and the top is somewhere around 365 km/h. The thing would be the 160 even in a oogbalverpulverende 5,9 seconds, and the kwartmijl takes with this beast, only the 10.7 s with a final speed of 229 km/h.

To make the car “more convenient” for straatgebruik was a slightly higher spoiler mounted and came with the car higher on the struts. To emmissieredenen got the GT-One also catalysts. Unfortunately, it brought the adventure to Le Mans may not have the desired success, and Toyota burned a few years later the necessary millions in Formula 1. But one thing is for sure: the GT-One is a brutal racer as we today encounter.

Gallery: Toyota GT One straatlegaal

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