28 Jan, 2009
Tokyo Auto Salon 2009: Corolla Axio apr GT
Posted by: brb In: Tokyo Auto Salon 2009| cars ()
Displayed at Toyota’s booth at the Tokyo Auto Salon is their entry into the 2009 Super GT: the Corolla apr Axio, a GT300-class machine with a water-cooled 3500cc V6 engine, modified by apr.
At the presentation held at Toyota booth, Team manager/chief engineer Hiroto Kaneso who takes the helm of apr explained the reason for picking a popular road car as their based vehicle. “My team has been using Corolla on the street, and, in spite of having a manual transmission, I often have taken the wheel also. I always thought that the car has everything in a pack: good balance, maneuverability, drivability, etc. From there, I thought ‘Would we be able to make a racing car out of it?’”
And here is the result:
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