Toyota has confirmed the name of its new supercar, revealing it without camouflage for the first time in a new teaser video.
The 2026 Toyota GR GT can be seen unmasked in this 30-second Japanese TV commercial, released late last week, before being fully unveiled online this Friday (December 5) at 11:00 a.m. Tokyo time and publicly premiering at the 2026 Tokyo Auto Salon (January 9-11).
While the video has been darkened to hide the finer details (we brightened the accompanying screenshot you see here), the GR GT’s extra-long hood, wide rear wings, and front/rear lighting signatures are clearly visible, similar to those of the 2026 GR010 Le Mans hypercar racer.
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Although the Toyota GR GT will be in some ways a spiritual successor to the limited-edition Lexus LFA hypercar, the Nurburgring edition of which can be seen in the teaser video alongside it, it will actually be the first supercar from Toyota’s Gazoo Racing (GR) brand.
Since the GR GT3 racing car concept was unveiled four years ago at the Tokyo Auto Salon, there has been speculation about the name and powertrain of the new top supercoupé.
A road version had long been expected, and earlier this year Toyota confirmed it would be sold under the GR banner, refuting theories that it would be a Lexus model.
The name “Toyota GR GT” was trademarked in several countries, including Australia, and was also featured on billboards at Toyota’s Fuji Speedway in Japan, Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda said on the Toyota Times Podcast that he personally named the vehicle.
Toyota also recently confirmed that it is developing a new V8 engine, which is also expected to be used by its luxury sister brand.
Now the Japanese giant’s latest teaser confirms that the new supercar will indeed be called the Toyota GR GT, and it’s accompanied by a soundtrack that seems to confirm that it’ll be powered by a V8, following the distinctive sounds of the LFA’s V10 and the inline-six of the classic (1967-1970) 2000GT, which also makes a cameo in the video.
While only the road-legal GR GT is seen in the video, it is also expected to form the basis of a GT3 endurance racer, and the same V8 could power a Lexus sister model.
The latter could potentially be called the LFR and would be a late replacement for the LFA produced between 2010 and 2012.
When it was revealed, there were suggestions that the Lexus Sport Concept could introduce either the LFR or a successor to the Lexus LC coupe and convertible.
A Lexus prototype, believed to be the 2026 LFR, was also spotted lapping the famous Nürburgring in Germany and the Spa-Francorchamps track in Belgium last year.
No details have been revealed about Toyota’s new eight-cylinder powertrain, but it’s widely believed to be a 4.0-liter twin-turbocharged V8 that will almost certainly come with an automatic transmission as standard (so no manual).
Toyota has long promised a hybrid version for every model sold except high-performance GR cars, and the GR GT’s V8 is expected to be backed by one or more electric motors in a hybrid system that could deliver a total output of more than 660 kW.
It’s unclear at this stage how much the GR GT will cost, but it will certainly sit at the top of Toyota’s passenger car range – above the A90 Supra coupe ($105,295 before on-road costs) but below the $700,000 asking price of the discontinued LFA.
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