Until now, we could only refer to Toyota’s S-FR sports-car concept has having a single face. It was a happy face, inspired by the classic Toyota Sports 800 sports car’s, and news that the little coupe would reach production made this year’s Tokyo auto show a fun one. For the Tokyo Auto Salon—essentially Japan’s SEMA—Toyota teamed up with Gazoo Racing to transform the S-FR’s face into a decidedly angrier one. The result is the S-FR Racing concept, a track-ready take on the S-FR that tosses out the original concept’s cutesy, wide-eyed guppy-mouthed countenance for a cutesy, wide-eyed guppy-mouthed face straddled by carbon-fiber canards, a splitter, and a vented hood. See? Angrier!
Toyota hasn’t fully elaborated yet on what Gazoo Racing is doing to its adorable little sports car, which is tinier than the Scion FR-S/Subaru BRZ and larger than a Miata, but we do know the S-FR Racing concept will have carbon-fiber spoilers, wicked center-lock wheels, and all of our attention when it debuts at the Tokyo Auto Salon in January. Our hope is that the stock S-FR concept’s four-cylinder engine has been beefed up even further, while the already light 2160-pound curb weight has been reduced. Although the S-FR is going into production, it isn’t yet clear whether or not the final product will come to the U.S. One thing’s for sure: This Racing concept has even less of a chance of coming here, mostly because it likely won’t be built at all. Still, we’d love for our assumptions to be proven wrong . . .
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