Toyota needs to get to know anybody fascinated by shopping for the forthcoming GR Super Sport, the road-car counterpart to its Le Mans Hypercar (LMH) class race automobile. Primarily based on a questionnaire first noticed by Motor1 on Friday, the automaker seems to be screening potential consumers earlier than deciding whether or not to promote them one.

The lengthy questionnaire asks what efficiency vehicles candidates at present personal (there’s room for as much as 10 entries) and to rank by order from most to least favourite. Toyota additionally needs to understand how a lot they drive every of these vehicles, and what efficiency vehicles they plan to purchase sooner or later.

The questionnaire additionally particularly asks whether or not candidates at present personal a Toyota 2000GT or Lexus LFA, indicating that Toyota will weigh model loyalty in its choices.

Different questions ask how usually candidates drive on a monitor, whether or not they have an FIA competitors license, or whether or not they personal a race staff.

Proven solely in camouflaged prototype kind up to now, the GR Tremendous Sport is a homologation particular for the brand new LMH class of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). LMH is the brand new high class within the WEC, and requires producers to construct a minimal of 25 highway vehicles primarily based on their race vehicles by the second 12 months of competitors. That quantity is anticipated to be bumped increased for the next years. Given the small variety of out there vehicles, we will see why Toyota would display screen consumers to slim down the listing of eventual house owners.

Toyota first confirmed an idea model of the GR Tremendous Sport in 2018, utilizing elements from the TS050 Hybrid race automobile designed for the outgoing LMP1 class. That automobile included a twin-turbocharged 2.4-liter V-6 and an electrical motor-generator, making a mixed 986 hp.

Nonetheless, LMH class guidelines restrict the racing version to 670 hp and would not require a hybrid powertrain. It is doable the highway automobile could have the next output, although, as 670 hp would not at all times reduce it for a supercar nowadays.

Whereas the road-car idea had an enclosed cabin, the prototype proven final 12 months was a roadster. It is doable the ultimate model could have a canopy-style roof, in step with a patent software Toyota filed with america Patent and Trademark Workplace in early 2020.

Toyota will compete in opposition to ByKolles and Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus (SCG) within the LMH class’ preliminary season, with different producers anticipated to affix in later seasons. Pre-season testing begins at Belgium’s Spa-Francorchamps April 26-27, adopted by the season opener, additionally at Spa, Might 1. The WEC’s marquee occasion, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, has been pushed back from June to August within the hope that the Coronavirus pandemic will probably be below management sufficient to permit spectators.

Whereas Toyota is not the primary automaker to arrange an software course of for a brand new supercar, rival SCG has stated it is going to promote its 007 to anybody with sufficient money. The corporate declared on Twitter Saturday that “now we have no lists. We require you to purchase nothing however what you need to.”