Gazoo Racing the new ///M

[BMWAF]

https://www.drive.com.au/news/2023-toyota-yaris-cross-gr-sport-australia/

Yaris Cross? ?

Can they water down the GR Sport brand any more?

It just makes me keener to strip the car of all GR branding and apply those shiny new ///MKV badges!

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[Thraxbert]

gazoo racing for that sweet grocery store parking spot.

 

[jtsang25]

Basically F sport for Lexus or more permoance for bmw

GR sport is their lower level version.

https://mag.toyota.co.uk/what-is-the-toyota-gazoo-racing-pyramid/

 

[reroute]

kill it and give me the steering wheel

 

[BMWAF]

Basically F sport for Lexus or more permoance for bmw

GR sport is their lower level version.

https://mag.toyota.co.uk/what-is-the-toyota-gazoo-racing-pyramid/

Thanks for that. I had no idea how far the rabbit hole went! I like the old Honda philosophy: That Red H is either on a F1 car or on a Type R.. or some spastic playing pretend. ?

What's the next marketing level from Toyota.. GR Shitbox?

What a joke.

 

[Sunstorm]

If it's how the Toyota bigwigs can justify making new performance cars, so that they can use the branding to trickle down to basic cars, then I don't see much of an issue.

Audi, Nissan, BMW, Mercedes, Lexus, etc all do the same.

 

[Tsuki]

https://www.drive.com.au/news/2023-toyota-yaris-cross-gr-sport-australia/

Yaris Cross? ?

Can they water down the GR Sport brand any more?

It just makes me keener to strip the car of all GR branding and apply those shiny new ///MKV badges!

You can be as upset as you want about it, but the sales of the 4 billion stupid things like this are what give them the money to engineer the stuff WE want to buy. If not for things like the X5M, and the 330i M Sport, we wouldn't have gems like the M2 Competition.

If it helps keep the lights on at GR, so they can keep making things like the GR Yaris, I'm perfectly happy for grandma to be able to cross-shop a Yaris Cross GR Sport and an X2M35i.

 

[Rocksandblues]

M label sells a LOT of cars according to a BMW rep at a sponsored AutoX I went to. I get it, don't like it.

 

[Supra Cat]

Finally, Toyota offers a Z-killer to claim the title of Ultimate Driver's Car!

 

[Tsuki]

Finally, Toyota offers a Z-killer to claim the title of Ultimate Driver's Car!

"The body roll in the corners in this Yaris Cross GR Sport makes it feel SO EXCITING! Like you're really DRIVING the vehicle. The Z, which corners much flatter, feels like it's taking too much control away from the driver."

 

[puzzled]

I hope they come out with GR toasters and GR coffee makers so that I can also feel cool in the am..

GR is just pure coolness.

 

[Supraboi7]

Kinda miss the TRD days...the whole GR thing feels off

 

[Sunstorm]

I hope they come out with GR toasters and GR coffee makers so that I can also feel cool in the am..

GR is just pure coolness.

I've already got my GR water bottle, GR Amazon Dot, GR keyring and my GR Issho soft toy all from when I ordered the Supra. Could do with an official GR jacket and cap tho...

 

[Tsuki]

I've already got my GR water bottle, GR Amazon Dot, GR keyring and my GR Issho soft toy all from when I ordered the Supra. Could do with an official GR jacket and cap tho...

With all of the cross-branding these days, it's tough to tell when someone is joking... There's a GR Amazon Dot??

 

[ApexMissingApe]

I feel like GR in the States isn’t established well enough to already start diluting the brand. Like, make it mean something first if you plan on making GR stickers a selling point.

BMW has gone crazy with the ///M branding, too. I’m getting a new X5 M Sport for my wife instead of the standard trim because it looks better, but there are more M badges on that thing than the actual X5M. It’s dumb - I’ll debadge it day one.

But I 100% love the ///MKV badge so I guess I’m dumb, too.

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