As a high-performance department of Toyota, GR is called GAZOO? Racing. Among them, "Gazoo" comes from the pronunciation of the word "image" in Japanese. GAZOO was originally a website selling used cars. 1998, Akio Toyoda and his colleagues started a website called "GAZOO.com", which is a website dedicated to managing used cars and publishing pictures for Toyota.
In 2007, at the suggestion of Hiroshi Morise, Akio Toyoda began to participate in the 24-hour endurance race held in New Berglin, Germany. At that time, Akio Toyoda was 565,438+0 years old. Many people in the company suggested that President Akio Toyoda should not take part in the competition for security reasons. Akio Toyoda resolutely decided to drive the car himself to participate in the competition, and will take "GAZOO? Named after racing car, the familiar GR was born.
In 20 15, Toyota integrated all the work related to automobile sports into "Toyota? GAZOO？ Racing ",until 20 17," GAZOO? The internal company of Racing Car was formally established.
At present, GR is divided into four levels, namely GR? Parts, GR? SPORT, GR and GRMN have also improved vehicle performance in turn. GRMN with the highest positioning is a model specially developed by Toyota GR department for the new Boglin circuit.
Affected by this year's epidemic, Toyota held an online press conference on June 5438+065438+ 10/day, 2020, announcing that its sports brand GR officially entered the China market and launched GR? Supra and GR? YARiS two models, another C-HR? GR？ Sport is also planned, which is enough to show Toyota GR's determination to enter the domestic market.
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