Toyota GR SPORTS EV Concept could be an electric MR2 successor

[KahnBB6]

And yet another rumor, originating from BestCar:

https://www.motor1.com/news/554325/toyota-suzuki-daihatsu-sports-car/

After seeing Toyota's EV concept lineup announcement today I think what we may be seeing here are a couple of different mid engine or mid-motor projects with only one of them being an MR2... but that is just my own speculation.

https://www.motor1.com/news/554332/toyota-lexus-electric-vehicles-preview/

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[gymratter]

EV MR2 concept?

 

[Supra93]

Some screenshots.

 

[supraboi]

It looks like all the rumors of an EV MR2 concept weren't wrong. Hopefully it gets made.

 

[2JZ-No-Sh*t]

This looks amazing!

 

[KahnBB6]

It's not related in any way but in addition to the MR2 this concept also reminds me of the very short-lived and stillborn TommyKaira ZZ-II bespoke mid-engined lightweight two-seater that the boutique company aimed to sell in small numbers after it was shown off in prototype form in the very early 2000's.

https://www.carthrottle.com/post/po93gry/

There have been so very few mid-engine cars to ever come out of Japan: the three generations of the MR2, the never-produced ZZ-II, the Mazda Autozam AZ-1 Kei, the Honda NSX, Beat and S660... and the Mitsuoka Orochi (yet it is a very ugly car).

This concept looks exceptionally cool, beautiful and aggressive. It would require next generation batteries (solid state) in order to keep the weight down and mounting space to a minimum.

I hope it doesn't really turn out to be $90k+ USD as some rumors have suggested.

 

[johnny_10196]

That looks pretty cool. I wonder if it's just a full size clay model or a working prototype?

 

[supraboi]

Not sure, but I think it has an interior.

 

[digicidal]

That looks pretty cool. I wonder if it's just a full size clay model or a working prototype?

If it is a full prototype... I wish they would employ similar tolerances on something in production.
Those door seams look razor thin and I can't see any frunk lines nor hatch/hood seams at all! (Outside of the T-Top at least)

My guess is clay but I'm certainly not confident in that assessment and would love to be corrected.

 

[Captain_Kirk]

Even if it is not a clay model, a lot of these concept cars are just fiber glass shells on a rolling chassis.

Case in point:

 

[Supra93]

Looking at the live photo it looks more like a shell over a chassis as seen in the post above.

A clay model would look more like this with all the windows blacked out.

 

[vb22]

What insider @Carmaker1 has shared.

As for the sports cars, I haven't paid much attention and quite hard to, as the A90 Supra disenchanted me. Plus, they're not necessarily TMS USA specific. Going off of recent renderings, these are very identical rumored LFA and MR2 replacements reported on months ago.

Funny enough, only the V8 powertrain is what Best Car got wrong, but more than a coincidence that these renderings and mention of 2025 came up, some 5 weeks (LFA II) to more than 1 year (MR2) before that presentation.

For the Japanese media to be passing that around well in advance of this presentation, tells me that these are some 36-48 months out.

Tetsuya Tada interesting started discussing publicly in 2019 MR2, after this rendering came out in 2018 too...

Look at the form of the design study...
Seems like Toyota got inspiration or they had similar ideas.

2013 Avalon took 3 1/2 years to design from 2007 to 2010, arriving in December 2012. 3 1/2 years extremely excessive, for mass market vehicle. They spent less than half the time on 2019 model.

Maybe the new MR2 was developed carefully over a long period and has reached semi-definitive levels, only waiting for production proposal and then design freeze?

 

[Jackyl tm]

So I work for Toyota Manufacturing and recently been getting material and webinars about MR2 the history, different clubs etc.

Could be a stretch, but maybe a sign of a possibility of new model incoming? Again just maybe a thought.

 

[underdonk]

So I work for Toyota Manufacturing and recently been getting material and webinars about MR2 the history, different clubs etc.

Could be a stretch, but maybe a sign of a possibility of new model incoming? Again just maybe a thought.

Fingers crossed!

 

[GoldenEye]

Give me more Sienna vans!!

So I work for Toyota Manufacturing and recently been getting material and webinars about MR2 the history, different clubs etc.

Could be a stretch, but maybe a sign of a possibility of new model incoming? Again just maybe a thought.

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