The most recent Toyota Gazoo Racing HiLux T1+ is prepared for one more Dakar Rally, utilizing a model of the LandCruiser 300’s and Lexus LX’s twin-turbo petrol V6.
How do outputs of 266kW and 620Nm, utilizing Motech administration, mated to a six-speed sequential gearbox, with entrance and rear limited-slip diffs, sound for a sand racer?
Beneath the vaguely recognizable HiLux-shaped composite materials physique of this desert racer is a tubular body, with a complete car mass of 2000kg.
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There’s double wishbone suspension (350mm stroke) entrance and rear, plus 17-inch wheels with 37-inch BF Goodrich tires.
The 11km-long prologue for the Saudi Arabia-hosted desert race, used to find out the beginning orders for the primary stage, will get issues underway throughout the afternoon of December 31, earlier than the race itself kicks off on New Yr’s Day. Fourteen aggressive levels will observe.
Dakar 2023 is scheduled to complete on January 15 within the metropolis of Dammam. This would be the Dakar’s first go to to town, and likewise the primary time that the race spans throughout the complete Saudi Arabian panorama from coast to coast.
Whereas attention-grabbing in and of itself, it is also intriguing to see Toyota enduro testing a model of this V6 engine in a roughly HiLux-sized automotive, given a new-generation mannequin close by.
We have not too long ago seen Ford conquer the Baja 1000 rally in a near-stock Ranger Raptor with its personal force-fed petrol V6, and can not help however surprise if Toyota is perhaps eyeing off a future competitor product…
Toyota can be working a near-stock (in contrast to this HiLux) LandCruiser V6 diesel at Dakar too, detailed here.
