{"id":188483,"date":"2010-01-16T16:39:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T21:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/?p=49099"},"modified":"2010-01-16T16:39:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T21:39:05","slug":"toyota-grmn-sports-hybrid-concept-hints-at-future-sporty-hybrid-for-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/188483","title":{"rendered":"Toyota GRMN Sports Hybrid concept hints at future sporty hybrid for 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49100 aligncenter\" title=\"Toyota GRMN Sports Hybrid Concept\" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/toyota_grmn_sports_hybrid_concept_images_main.jpg\" alt=\"Toyota GRMN Sports Hybrid Concept\" width=\"563\" height=\"298\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Toyota&#8217;s new CEO Akio Toyoda is hell-bent on making the Japanese automaker more fun, appealing and sporty. Besides introducing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/2010\/01\/15\/toyota-ft-86-g-sports-concept-debuts-in-toyota-auto-salon-w-video\/\">Toyota FT-86 G Sports<\/a> at the 2010 Tokyo Auto Salon, Toyota introduced the GRMN Sports Hybrid, a vehicle based on the outgoing MR2 platform.<\/p>\n<p>The two-seater, four-wheel-drive gets a 3.3L V6 mated to Toyota&#8217;s THSII hybrid system. According to Toyota, that results in &#8220;more than 392-hp,&#8221; allowing for a 0-60 mph time of less than 4.5 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Sources say that a vehicle based on the GRMN Sports Hybrid concept could go on sale as early as 2011, giving the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/2010\/01\/11\/2010-detroit-2011-honda-cr-z-makes-production-debut-goes-on-sale-in-2nd-half-of-2010\/\">Honda CR-Z Hybrid<\/a> a run for its money.<\/p>\n<p><em>Click through to watch a video of the GRMN Sports Hybrid Concept in action<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Toyota GRMN Sports Hybrid Concept<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/toyota_grmn_sports_hybrid_concept_images_001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-49101\" title=\"Toyota GRMN Sports Hybrid Concept\" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/toyota_grmn_sports_hybrid_concept_images_001-128x84.jpg\" alt=\"Toyota GRMN Sports Hybrid Concept\" width=\"128\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/toyota_grmn_sports_hybrid_concept_images_005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-49104\" title=\"Toyota GRMN Sports Hybrid Concept\" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/toyota_grmn_sports_hybrid_concept_images_005-128x84.jpg\" alt=\"Toyota GRMN Sports Hybrid Concept\" width=\"128\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/toyota_grmn_sports_hybrid_concept_images_004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-49103\" title=\"Toyota GRMN Sports Hybrid Concept\" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/toyota_grmn_sports_hybrid_concept_images_004-128x84.jpg\" alt=\"Toyota GRMN Sports Hybrid Concept\" width=\"128\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/toyota_grmn_sports_hybrid_concept_images_002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-49102\" title=\"Toyota GRMN Sports Hybrid Concept\" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/toyota_grmn_sports_hybrid_concept_images_002-128x84.jpg\" alt=\"Toyota GRMN Sports Hybrid Concept\" width=\"128\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-49099\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"400\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1qId_GaBURo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1qId_GaBURo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; By: Kap Shah<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: Toyota (via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.insideline.com\/straightline\/2010\/01\/toyota-sports-hybrid-concept--toyota-mr2-hybrid-at-tokyo-auto-salon.html\">Straightline<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MA8oj6DcP6PUIrICTvlHKsFrdck\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MA8oj6DcP6PUIrICTvlHKsFrdck\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MA8oj6DcP6PUIrICTvlHKsFrdck\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MA8oj6DcP6PUIrICTvlHKsFrdck\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=aJLjb8G4iDQ:b12ciyFII-8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=aJLjb8G4iDQ:b12ciyFII-8:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=aJLjb8G4iDQ:b12ciyFII-8:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=aJLjb8G4iDQ:b12ciyFII-8:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=aJLjb8G4iDQ:b12ciyFII-8:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=aJLjb8G4iDQ:b12ciyFII-8:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=aJLjb8G4iDQ:b12ciyFII-8:TzevzKxY174\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=TzevzKxY174\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota&#8217;s new CEO Akio Toyoda is hell-bent on making the Japanese automaker more fun, appealing and sporty. Besides introducing the Toyota FT-86 G Sports at the 2010 Tokyo Auto Salon, Toyota introduced the GRMN Sports Hybrid, a vehicle based on the outgoing MR2 platform. The two-seater, four-wheel-drive gets a 3.3L V6 mated to Toyota&#8217;s THSII [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}