There's Bad News About Toyota's Hypercar

Toyota has been making friends of its fanbase recently, launching a new, more powerful GR86 and the sublimeSupra- not to mention hot Yaris and Corolla variants too. But there's another level that we've been waiting for the Japanese giant to reach. With the news that Toyota would be competing in endurance racing as part of a new hypercar class, so too came the news that aroad-legal hypercarwould be made too. But details have not been forthcoming; we've only seen a prototype roadster variant parading at Le Mans. In August, we heard that the carcould be canceled, but Toyotawould not commenton this even a few months later, suggesting that the project was still not confirmed. And now a new report from Dutch publicationAutoblogproves that the automaker still can't make up its mind.

In an interview with Toyota Motorsport CEO Rob Leupen, it has become clear that Toyota is more interested in competition than consumer products, at least for this sort of project.

"We had a time - around 2018 and 2019 - when it was considered to release a road car," says Leupen. "Due to the entire energy transition from fossil fuels to more electrical support, that has been pushed into the background. The GR010s we have now are indeed based on ideas for a hypercar for the street, but those street-legal cars have been pushed back. The focus is now much more on racing."

That's still not a vehement denial of the car's potential arrival, is it?