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Toyota’s 2JZ engine tends to crowbar its way into any Supra conversation with the BMW Z4 dragged in for some extra fire poking. I know the 2JZ well. In my earlier years of doing jobs like this one, I was dispatched to kick around venues like Tarlton and Wesbank...

We expected a limited edition Hilux to follow in the sand tracks of Toyota’s first win at Dakar and our speculative predictions were half correct. Now we’re at the exciting point where we can confirm that the GR-Sport Hilux , which we first saw at the Brazilian Motor Show...

Toyota fans will be happy to find out that the specs of the highly-anticipated Toyota Supra were leaked earlier this week by a Japanese Car Magazine. A copy of the magazine article was posted onto an online forum, revealing the figures of the sports car. A 3.0-litre straight-six engine...

Toyota Gazoo Racing is about to hit the performance mainstream and the car to potentially launch it into hot hatch stardom with be the Toyota Yaris. Without getting ahead of ourselves, the Toyota Supra co-developed with BMW, is rumoured to be next. Toyota has upgraded the current Yaris’s 1.3-litre...

While most South African families were celebrating Christmas Day, the Toyota Gazoo Racing SA team started their journey to South America for Dakar 2017. The race gets under way on January 2nd, 2017, in the Paraguayan capital of Asunción, but there is still a mass of work to be...

Hallpeed has undertaken an intense development path for 2017 Dakar. With a new car, fair(er) rules and a formidable driver pairing, Toyota Gazoo Racing is raring to go. How is Leeroy Poulter doing after his operation? Glyn Hall: Leeroy is great, he is here today. Doctors gave him the all clear...

Giniel de Villiers and navigator Dirk von Zitzewitz have put the revolutionary two-wheel-drive Toyota Gazoo Racing SA Hilux Evo to its first test session in the Northwest Province of South Africa with highly encouraging results. “It is always exciting to put a completely new concept to the test,” Toyota Motorsport boss...

Next month the 2016 World Endurance Championship kicks off at Silverstone and Toyota is ramping up the excitement with a video on its TS050 hybrid. Competing in the LMP1 category where it will be up against the Porsche 919 and Audi R18, the Toyota TS050 represents possibly the biggest evolution from its...

Dakar coverage on DSTV is thin but Toyota’s  own intrepid videographers managed to capture the essence of Part 1 leading up to the rest day. Interviews with team principle Glyn Hall are insightful and as the race returns to lower V8-assisting altitudes Gazoo Racing is confident of moving up the...