Toyota had never made a true racing car, but that didn't stop it from thinking big. The result was a 800bhp monster. Sadly, writes Paul Fearnley, it soon became a dinosaur
Toyota, like its great rival Nissan, was a company in a hurry in the late 1960s. A 1300bhp per tonne sort of a hurry. A Group 7 twin-turbocharged 5-litre V8 hurry. Its reputation for building pootling, mundane three-box saloons was about to be shot out of exhausts the size of cannon. For what better way of getting noticed in Europe and America than competing at Le Mans and in Can-Am?
