Toyota's first electric sports car aimed to be indistinguishable from a gasoline one
, Toyota's recently retired president and grandson of the company's founder, and says he is still taking an active role in developing the EV sports car. Toyoda, a known enthusiast that has driven some of Toyota's race cars at endurance and rally competitions around the world, says that he wants his performance EVs to be almost indistinguishable from their gasoline counterparts.
"The starting point is not what powertrain the car has, but how fun it is to drive regardless of that powertrain," Toyoda revealed to."I actually had the opportunity to test drive a BEV GR we are working on recently. I don’t know if that car will make it onto the market yet, but the first priority of making these kinds of cars is that they need to be fun to drive, no matter what powertrain they use.
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