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GAZOO’S GRENADE

Climbing down from the lofty appeal of a Tesla Model S and Aspark Owl featured elsewhere on these pages is a little hatchback that proves that dynamite comes in small packages. It might not look like it on the surface but this once-friendly and common city hatchback has been transformed by Toyota’s Motorsport Division, Gazoo Racing, to be something of a giant killer.

"Sport mode highlights this allwheel-drive system"

To understand why this has happened during a time when the automotive world seems to be consolidating rather than funding skunkworks projects like this, one only

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