The defunct Toyota iQ, the Japanese brand’s smallest four-seater that was offered in Europe between 2009 and 2015, has been turned into a GAZOO Racing-inspired sports vehicle. A one-of-a-kind innovation that will be showcased in society at the Tokyo 2022 Show.
The Toyota iQ accomplished the almost impossible feat of developing a fully urban vehicle with seating for four people on a continent of little under three meters in length. The Toyota microcar, which was produced between 2009 and 2015, wowed with its design, with a special edition of a hundred units made by GAZOO Racing’s sports division and bearing the “GRMN” mark.
Years later, with the Tokyo Motor Show set to begin in early 2022, a group of Japanese mechanics has chosen to deliver a genuinely unique invention to the show.
An exercise in tuning so fundamental that the protagonist is a now-extinct Japanese brand microcar. On the outside, the Toyota iQ has been turned into a strange sports vehicle capable of unimaginable performance in the production model.
With the aid of Kawasaki, the Toyota iQ transforms into a rocket.
The sports division’s genes are notably noticeable in the front, which has been totally redesigned to meet the appearance of the GR Yaris, a sports utility vehicle. The little Japanese model has been given new headlights, a reworked hood panel, and a bumper with a huge grille that presides over the front. The rear light clusters and the back bumper have been incorporated as well, preserving the wraparound rear window. This was a genuine task that took hundreds of hours to finish.
However, the outside design isn’t the only eye-catching feature. It is also outfitted on the inside to meet the needs of the situation. With a fully redesigned two-sphere instrument panel and a steering wheel at the front that is also more reminiscent of Momo’s high spheres of sports car racing, the sports seats have a racing basquets arrangement.
A technological intervention that has gone much farther also in the chassis plan, which has been updated with a widening of the front and rear tracks, wider axles, the body’s height to the ground has been decreased, and bigger section wheels have been installed. Changes are required to guarantee improved motor skills.
And it’s because the basic gasoline engine has been replaced with a Kawasaki four-cylinder, 1.4-liter engine that produces a respectable 211 HP of maximum power and 154 Nm of torque. A true beast for which no performance data have been released, but which must definitely be cruel, and which we expect to encounter at the Tokyo Auto Salon.
Keyword: Toyota iQ, Transformed Into Sports Car