Bouncing Red Ball

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:

Tokyo Auto Salon 2009: Toyota Corolla Axio

Tokyo Auto Salon 2009: Toyota Corolla Axio

Tokyo Auto Salon 2009: Toyota Corolla Axio

Tokyo Auto Salon 2009: Toyota Corolla Axio

Tokyo Auto Salon 2009: Toyota Corolla Axio

Tokyo Auto Salon 2009: Toyota Corolla Axio

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3 Responses to "Tokyo Auto Salon 2009: Corolla Axio apr GT"

1 | freedomwv

January 28th, 2009 at 10:44 pm

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Now that looks like a bad ass car! I bet it can really burn the pavement.

2 | AwesomeBods

February 11th, 2009 at 7:06 am

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I wonder what’s the top speed on this thing?

3 | Timothy

February 12th, 2009 at 12:27 am

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Now that’s a big difference then other Corollas. Looks sick nasty.

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