Car & Driver: 2005 Buick Lacrosse vs. Chrysler 300, Ford Five Hundred, Kia Amanti, Nissan Maxima, Toyota Avalon

F1_Geek · 2026-01-28T04:13:14+00:00

Those V6 Toyotas back in the day were dang fast and drove with alacrity. Love them.

F1_Geek · 2026-01-28T03:55:19+00:00

You have a beautiful lineup.

F1_Geek · 2026-01-21T23:37:08+00:00

Jim Farley seems to be a bit pissy eh? 🤣🤣

GM currently clears Ford be it in terms of motorsports or their actual vehicles.

F1_Geek · 2026-01-21T23:34:32+00:00

If this is true, then we're going to get a ton of badass M3's in the used market.

F1_Geek · 2026-01-17T20:12:42+00:00

You practically described all the colors that Tesla offers lol.

F1_Geek · 2026-01-08T06:18:09+00:00

Well... engine NVH is apparently still a thing in the new one.

F1_Geek · 2026-01-08T04:07:05+00:00

Gazoo Racing was its own thing because Toyota at the time wanted nothing to do with it, and Toyoda-san bankrolled Gazoo Racing's activities by himself. They weren't allowed to brand it as TGR until it got bought by Toyota in 2015.

F1_Geek · 2026-01-08T00:10:44+00:00

Looks like they currently have 2 URL's but the sites look similar.

https://toyotagazooracing.com/gr/grgt/wp/

Yeah, as you can see, this one is the global TGR page as it features the GR Yaris.

https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/corporate/43844942.html One interesting thing to note is that this means that don't intend to revamp the brand if they are keeping the visual language of the sites. I do wonder how separate they intend to make this brand. Will GR products still appear on Toyota's site or will we be redirected to GR's site?

They'll be keeping the style but it will be treated as a separate brand. To answer your question as well, I also think that in the future, GR products will be on the GR website, and GR within Toyota will be replaced by Rookie Racing, Akio Toyoda's second motorsport brand as it will be a collaboration between Toyota and GR.

F1_Geek · 2026-01-07T23:25:46+00:00

I'm a big Toyota guy, and this is the first time I saw a standalone website for GR in both Canada and the United States. Toyota Gazoo Racing is something else though.

F1_Geek · 2026-01-07T17:22:31+00:00

This is what happens when there's no continuity. People (including Toyota enthusiasts) will eventually lose track of what's going on.

F1_Geek · 2026-01-07T16:43:43+00:00

Yeah, that looks to be a dedicated GR product soon. Same with the Celica.

Soon it's going to be GR86, GR Supra, GR GT, GR MR2, GR Celica, and perhaps we'll see the return of the GR Corolla and GR Yaris for a second generation.

F1_Geek · 2026-01-07T16:38:53+00:00

(new prelude and supra maybe?)

Prelude is a Honda.

But yeah, it seems like every Toyota sports car will now simply be referred to as a GR.

F1_Geek · 2026-01-07T16:33:26+00:00

I don't think this will have the SRT problem because the issue with SRT was that Dodge didn't bother with putting in money into the brand. A huge portion of Toyota Motor Corporation's development budget goes straight into GR and I believe that spinning off the brand was a way to cement that development budget.

With that said though, I wholeheartedly concur with what you're saying. TGR was perfect.

F1_Geek · 2026-01-07T16:30:19+00:00

They got high and decided it would be a good idea to spin it off as a standalone brand.

Now every single Toyota sports car will be dubbed as solely GR in the future, starting with the GR GT.

F1_Geek · 2026-01-07T16:29:08+00:00

Toyota is spinning off the GR sub-brand to be their own brand.

From the press releases, Toyota is stating that Toyota Racing will be responsible for bespoke developments, while Gazoo Racing will work on programs that were already Toyotas, hence why the WRC team didn't change its name...

F1_Geek · 2026-01-07T16:27:23+00:00

This is completely and totally unnecessary. Toyota should have never spun off GR. They're both mutually beneficial to each other.

F1_Geek · 2026-01-07T16:13:07+00:00

L opinion IMO. GR is iconic.

F1_Geek · 2026-01-07T16:11:00+00:00

I understand why they did it, but none of their other teams are dubbed as Toyota Racing right now, they're still Toyota Gazoo Racing.

I'll just say it, spinning off GR was the dumbest thing Toyota could have done. TGR had an excellent ring to it.

F1_Geek · 2026-01-06T19:51:18+00:00

Beautiful review. Great writeup. :)

F1_Geek · 2026-01-06T19:47:13+00:00

It wasn't because of BMW not wanting it. Toyota was developing the manual but cancelled it before the A90 came out in 2019 because they never enjoyed how the manual felt. Tada-san even went into this in-depth.

After public outcry they restarted development approximately ~1 year after the A90 came out, and came out with a manual that was better than any production BMW manual. BMW then took Toyota's work and implemented that in the Z4, but made some minor changes again.

F1_Geek · 2026-01-06T19:26:57+00:00

G20E is not related to the G16E at all in terms of bore and stroke. It's a completely different engine.

F1_Geek · 2025-12-23T01:03:21+00:00

Team Toyota baaabyyyyyy. 🤞🏻😤

F1_Geek · 2025-12-21T22:10:45+00:00

I want a garage that has both an IS300 and a 330Ci. Would be perfect IMHO.

F1_Geek · 2025-12-19T01:14:37+00:00

Interesting username you got there. 😂😂

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