Toyota Racing Development
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Toyota Racing Development or TRD is the in-house tuning shop for all Toyota, Lexus, and Scion cars, which are Toyota brands and domestically branded as such in Japan. TRD is responsible both for improving street cars for more performance and supporting Toyota's racing interests around the world. They participate in the Super GT(JGTC), NASCAR, and they have a Formula One team.
There are currently three official branches of TRD: TRD Japan (aka Toyota Technocraft), TRD USA, and TTE (Toyota Team Europe) by Toyota Motorsport GmbH.
TRD Japan's Race Division concentrates on the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship Series (JGTC), All Japan F3 Championship Series, ESSO Formula Toyota Series, and Netz Cup races (Altezza Series and Vitz Series).
TRD USA's Race Division concentrates on Championship Off Road Racing (CORR), NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, Grand-Am Cup Sports Touring, National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Import Drags, and starting in 2007, NASCAR Nextel Cup and Busch Series. Former concentrations include the Baja 1000, IMSA, and CART's Championship World Series & Toyota Atlantic Series, and most recently the Indy Racing League.
Toyota Team Europe concentrates on Formula One World Championship Racing (F1). Former concentrations include the World Rally Championship (WRC).
There are also plans by Toyota Australia to introduce the TRD division in Australia with the first vehicle being the supercharged Toyota Aurion V6[1] then possibly followed by high-performance variants of the 4WD Toyota Hilux[2] and the Toyota Corolla. TRD is aimed to compete with local in-house tuning shops Holden Special Vehicles (HSV) and Ford Performance Vehicles (FPV).
[edit] External links
- TRD Official Site
- (Japanese) TRD Japan
- TRD USA
- TRD Australia
- (Japanese) Toyota Technocraft
- (Japanese) TRD Parts
- TRD Parts
- TTE by Toyota Motorsport GmbH
- Toyota Motorsports (USA)
- Toyota Aurion TRD
- Toyota Hilux TRD Concept
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