{"id":249303,"date":"2010-01-29T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/29\/report-toyota-gs-performance-division-in-the-works\/"},"modified":"2010-01-29T19:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T00:58:00","slug":"report-toyota-gs-performance-division-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/249303","title":{"rendered":"Report: Toyota ‘Gs’ performance division in the works"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Aftermarket<\/a>, Coupe<\/a>, Performance<\/a>, Japan<\/a>, Scion<\/a>, Toyota<\/a><\/p>\n

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Toyota G Sports FT-86 – Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

\nBe still our hearts. A Toyota<\/a> post that doesn’t involve a recall. Instead, we’ve got an unsurprising report about ToMoCo’s plans to start a new, in-house performance division dubbed “Gs” sometime in 2010.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Toyota trotted out three models wearing a new line of performance parts<\/a> at the Tokyo Auto Salon<\/a> under the “Toyota G Sports” moniker. While a bodykitted Prius<\/a> isn’t exactly our cup of Earl Grey and the tuned Mark X is about as interesting as a fire-breathing Camry<\/a>, the (supposedly) turbocharged Toyota FT-86<\/a>, fitted with a complete aero kit, suspension and brake mods kicked our salivary glands into overdrive.<\/p>\n

Unlike the forthcoming Volkswagen R line<\/a>, BMW<\/a>‘s M division or Mercedes-Benz<\/a>‘ AMG unit, the Gs line would be a joint collaboration between Modelista – which has been developing and supplying exterior components to the automaker – and TRD<\/a>, which will handle engine, suspension and brake development with the help of Gazoo, the firm that helped to create the hybrid Mk. III MR2<\/a> for TAS.<\/p>\n

G’s will focus more on high-end components developed for the street and will likely sold as either a complete model (think Toyota FT-86 Gs) or available as separate components, similar to the Lexus<\/a> F Sport<\/a> line.<\/p>\n

Whether these components or full models will make it Stateside remains to be seen, but when the FT-86 makes it to U.S. shores, we’d suspect Toyota – or more likely Scion<\/a> – will offer similar equipment.<\/p>\n

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Gallery: Toyota G Sports Series<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n[Source: InsideLine<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Aftermarket, Coupe, Performance, Japan, Scion, Toyota Toyota G Sports FT-86 – Click above for high-res image gallery Be still our hearts. A Toyota post that doesn’t involve a recall. Instead, we’ve got an unsurprising report about ToMoCo’s plans to start a new, in-house performance division dubbed “Gs” sometime in 2010. Earlier this month, […]<\/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-249303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249303","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=249303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}