Toyota has revealed two loopy Camry ideas, one with seven cylinders and the opposite with a chandelier, on the 24-hour Tremendous Taikyu Race in Japan over the weekend.
The seven-cylinder idea was developed by Gazoo Racing. The mildest factor in regards to the automotive is its white paint, which would not look misplaced at an airport taxi rank.
Sitting near floor, the Gazoo idea sports activities extensive wheel-arch extensions, a high-rise rear wing, and side-exit exhausts.
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Underneath the bonnet lives the 224kW 1.6-litre turbocharged three-cylinder petrol engine that powers the GR Yaris and GR Corolla.
The place issues go actually loopy is on the again, with the corporate’s still-under-development 2.0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder residing within the boot. Specified by a transverse configuration, the brand new turbo 4 makes round 300kW and drives the rear wheels.
It is unclear what transmissions are used within the idea, however the two-engine structure is a novel approach of getting across the structural points inherent with straight-seven and V7 engines.
Gazoo’s seven-cylinder Camry is not the primary production-based idea to characteristic two petrol engines. Two notable earlier examples embody the mid-Eighties 164kW Volkswagen Scirocco Bi-Motor that includes two 1.6-litre four-cylinder engines from the Golf GTI, and the 1998 Mercedes-Benz A38 AMG Prototype, which had two 1.9-litre four-cylinder engines making a complete of 186kW.
The opposite idea on show over the weekend was developed by Toyota Racing.
With its Bōsōzoku-inspired styling, it is someway much more outlandish than its seven-cylinder cousin. It has a ground-scraping entrance splitter, prolonged wheel-arches, a protracted rear deck spoiler, and 4 large upward-pointing exhausts.
Inside it is simply as loopy with a fur-lined dashboard, a inexperienced chandelier above the rear seats, a cigar holder within the centre console, and an Eighties-style digital instrumentation pack. In honour of Toyota’s choice to import Kentucky-built Camrys to Japan, the gear shifter includes a glass of bourbon.
The mechanical package deal is a bit more typical, and options the aforementioned 300kW 2.0-litre turbocharged four-pot. In contrast to common road-going Camrys, although, the engine is mounted longitudinally and drives the rear wheels.
Photographs all through this text are screenshots from movies by Nikolai Aksenov and Matt Watson.
