On June 26, 2024, the Toyota GR Carnival was successfully held in Shanghai, as the largest event of Toyota GR (Gazoo Racing) racing division in China, nearly 1,000 car owners, fans and media came to the scene.
(GR event, bring GR and shoot up~)
At the GR carnival site, in addition to the familiar GR Supra and GR86 models, the GR YARIS, which is the Chinese market specification version of the left drive, also came to the scene. In a few months, the model will also announce its price in the Chinese mainland market and officially launch it.
Since it is a carnival, Toyota GR naturally also arranged a lot of blockbuster programs for fans in the Chinese market and invited a lot of powerful drivers, Chinese drivers Han Lichao, Hou Shaoyu, Tie Dou and Japanese drivers Sasaki Masahiro, Katsuta Fan Yan are all guests of this Toyota GR carnival. Of course, if you want to ask the most noteworthy driver at the event, it must be Akio Toyoda, chairman of Toyota Motor and chairman of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association.
(Mr. Akio Toyoda is quite popular in China!) )
Yes, Mr. Akio Toyoda, who is 68 years old this year, has always had a great passion for cars, racing and driving. In addition, as the chief test driver of Toyota, Mr. Akio Toyoda's driving skills are unparalleled among the CEOs of automobile brands in the world. Driving the GR YARIS Rally1 HYBRID champion car, which he himself participated in the entire development process, Mr. Akio Toyoda performed high-level racing stunts for the crowd on the track. Accompanied by tire smoke and the unique ignition explosion sound of rally cars that shook the scene, the atmosphere of GR Carnival Shanghai was pushed to the climax.
While cheering for Mr. Akio Toyoda and Toyota GR, all the fans at the scene had an answer to why Toyota GR is so attractive. Mr. Akio Toyoda is not only an outstanding entrepreneur, but also a true racing driver, and of course a fanatical car enthusiast at heart. He loves cars and can drive, so he naturally knows how to use good products to cater to us driving enthusiasts.
Only those who love cars can build good cars, and the example of Mr. Akio Toyoda can be described as a statement of the present statement.
In addition to the most eye-catching GR YARIS Rally1 HYBRID car, Toyota GR also brought a variety of Toyota GR series cars, including the GR YARIS Rally2 car in the customer event, the GR SUPRA GT4 car that won the first stop of the 2024 CEC, the GR86 drift car equipped with the first-generation 2JZ-GTE engine and the Toyota GR China GR86 Cup car.
As the world's largest car brand, the GR Carnival shows more of a side that domestic consumers know relatively little about Toyota. Through a series of activities and products, Toyota hopes to usher in a new breakthrough in the market, of course, from the Toyota GR we can also see that at the moment of shouldering the responsibility of low-carbon environmental protection, the blood and passion belonging to the fuel era are still respected and needed.
A veteran Toyota fan commissioned a friend
Ask Mr. Akio Toyoda to sign his Land Cruiser LC80 on the Chinese net
There's every reason to look forward to Toyota and the next series of events and products for Toyota GR, and as for the GR Yaris that you've been waiting for for so long, I can't wait to have fun with it right now!