Toyota S-FR Racing Concept: Mazda MX-5 rival takes inspiration from circuit
New version sports muscular, race-inspired bodykit with flared wheelarches, bonnet vents and spoilers
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Your support makes all the difference.Toyota is set to make a splash at January’s Tokyo Auto Salon with the S-FR Racing Concept – a far more aggressive evolution of the manufacturer’s original, back-to-basics S-FR show car that was planned as a simple, lightweight rival to Mazda’s MX-5.
The original S-FR ‘Kei’ car – seen at Tokyo last January – featured a 128bhp 1.5-litre four-cylinder petrol engine and weighed in at just 908kg.
But the newest version sports a muscular, race-inspired bodykit, with flared wheelarches, bonnet vents plus spoilers front and rear. It’s longer, wider and lower, too.
It’s all whetting the Japanese public’s appetite for a production model, but there are currently no plans to bring the S-FR to the UK
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