- This wild Camry includes a 1.6-liter at the front and a 2.0-liter at the rear.
- Built by Gazoo Racing engineers, the car has 700 hp sent to all four wheels.
- Toyota Racing also unveiled a dramatic Bōsōzoku-style Camry in Japan.
Once a purveyor of nothing but boring and mundane cars, Toyota has come a long way in recent years, building some of the best performance hatchbacks on the market. Toyota is no longer afraid to have fun, and over the weekend it proved as much by unveiling a 700-hp Camry packing two engines and seven cylinders.
The bonkers, widebody Camry was one of two Camry project cars that Toyota Racing and Gazoo Racing built and unveiled at the 24-hour Super Taikyu Race, both built to celebrate the US-built Camry’s imminent arrival in Japan.
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Fitted under the Camry’s hood is the same 1.6-liter turbocharged three-cylinder found in the GR Yaris, GR Corolla, and LBX Morizo RR. This is a truly fabulous engine and would be perfect for a sporty Camry model. But not satisfied with building a simple 300-hp Camry, Gazoo Racing’s engineers added a second engine to the sedan’s trunk.
This engine is the newly developed 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder from GR. This engine has yet to premiere in a road-going model, but delivers up to 400 hp and will be used in future models, potentially including a revived Celica and/or MR2. Beyond fitting two new engines, the team also added custom bumpers to the Camry, flared wheel arches, and a large fixed rear wing.
With two engines spanning seven cylinders, upwards of 700 hp, and all-wheel drive, a wild Camry like this could redefine the performance sedan landscape. Unfortunately, there’s no way it’ll ever reach production.
Camry Bōsōzoku
As for the second Camry unveiled on the weekend, this time from Toyota Racing, it was very different. Painted in black with green accents, it takes inspiration from Japan’s Bōsōzoku-style cars, sporting a huge front splitter, a wild rear spoiler, and six-foot tall exhaust pipes stretching out from the rear. The vehicle’s interior is also rather wild, sporting a glass shift knob with a fake ice cube within, and even a glass cigar holder on the transmission tunnel.
