[Venkatesh]

Toyota’s Gazoo Racing models to come to India. Dealerships to have dedicated ‘GR’ interaction corners. Supra likely to be Toyota’s first GR model for India.



Naveen Soni, Senior VP, Sales and Service at Toyota Kirloskar Motor, confirmed the Supra GT contest is the first step towards the introduction of the Gazoo Racing sub-brand and its models in India.

We’ve previously reported about Toyota evaluating the GR Supra sportscar for India, and the company views it as an ideal way to introduce the Gazoo Racing name – under which Toyota runs its motorsports campaigns in the Dakar Rally, World Rally Championship and World Endurance Championship – to our market.

“Supra is an iconic brand. We’ll be happy and proud to present it once we’re ready. If Gazoo Racing has to be adopted, the Supra becomes a good candidate for the same.”

Toyota also wants to incorporate the Gazoo Racing experience into its dealerships across India, and for this, will set up dedicated Gazoo Racing interactive corners – with gaming and other activities – at its outlets.

“Our intention is to have a Gazoo Racing experience corner at our dealerships – you don’t need to come to our showrooms just to buy a car. When customers come in for a service, a GR corner would help them curate and follow their hobbies while their cars are serviced,” added Soni

https://www.autocarindia.com/car-new...o-india-418318

[akash_v12]

The Toyota Gazoo Racing (GR) performance brand is headed to India! Earlier this week, Toyota announced the introduction of an India leg of its GR Supra GT Cup; a virtual racing championship based on the popular PlayStation 4 video game, Gran Turismo Sport. The introduction of this contest marks the India debut of Toyota’s GR moniker, and the company is set to expand the GR programme in India beyond the Supra GT Cup contest.

- The GR dealerships will be different from the normal Toyota dealerships.
- 1st product is rumoured to be the Supra .

[GBX]

Very interesting stuff.

If they bring in the Supra as a CKD with the help of BMW, at best they can price it at the 60L mark. More likely they will bring it in as a fully loaded CBU and try to compete with the Mustang, M2 and C43 AMG at the 80L mark.

Where they will run into problems is bringing the rest of their sporty lineup. The GT86 has a Subaru boxer engine which would require extensive retraining of their service teams. And the AWD Yaris hatchback comes with a monster turbo petrol engine which again, Toyota India has no experience with.

I hope they throw caution to the wind, and simply bring them here regardless. We have a severe dearth of performance cars after BS6 kicked in.

[motor spirit]

I feel a supra might end up just being a show car at the GT cup event & the rest of the GR decals may be all over a the Yaris with some body kits & called GR Yaris .
How many copies of GR supra prices at almost a crore can Toyota sell in India .

[Red Liner]

So on one side Toyota is lazily rebadging cars to 99% of the car buying population who will actually make them money if they get their better international products in and keep their factories running, and here they are bending over their backs to import cars and sell to the 1%.

Does this make any sense at all?

[Nithesh_M]

A GT86 for DC Avanti money? One can only dream