The world’s largest car manufacturer, Toyota Motor is renowned for its great quality and reliable cars. However, the Japanese auto giant has not had great luck in achieving as much praises for the styling of its cars. In the present time, when the modern car buyers are going for superbly designed cars and the various auto majors are offering too many stunning looking cars, Toyota cars are lagging behind in the style quotient being mostly conservatively designed.
Toyota FT1 Concept
In a bid to retain its crown for the globe’s top car maker, Toyota is now focusing greatly on making cars that are not only safe, efficient and reliable, but also great head turners. The Toyota designers are now guided by the company’s new motto of ‘Waku Doki’ styling which is Japanese for ‘heart racing’ car designs. While Toyota is still working on its all new design language which is expected to be featured in the next-gen Prius hybrid model, the company is showcasing many awe inspiring concept models.
One such eyeball grabbing concept from Toyota is the FT-1. Toyota received a lot of attention and praises from the visitors at the 2014 Detroit Motor Show for unveiling its FT-1 concept at the event. Now, it seems that the Japanese carmaker is eager to grab more attention when cool styling is concerned and wishes to cash in on the FT-1 concept, as it has revealed two new versions of the same concept at the 2014 Pebble Beach Concours D’elegance.
Among the two new versions that spawned out of the original Toyota FT-1 concept, one is a virtual concept called the Toyota FT-1 Vision Gran Turismo (GT) that has been specially created to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the game series Gran Turismo 6. The second new version of the FT-1 concept is called the Toyota FT-1 Graphite.
Needless to say, both the Toyota FT-1 Vision GT comes along with a muscular body which almost looks like a futuristic war machine. The concept features carbon fiber front splitter, huge air vents that spread over its massive wheel arches, deep cut side skirting and a large air diffuser that is integrated into the car’s rear bumper.
To add to the beefy look of the concept car, it features massive multi-spoke centre-locking wheels that are wrapped by low-profile Pirelli tires and a colossal rear spoiler which is designed out of carbon fiber wrap. The car looks very aggressive and track-focused.
The second version, the Toyota FT-1 Graphite very obviously flaunts a graphite body paint scheme and gets light brown premium leather upholstery for its cabin. According to Toyota these changes that are features in the Toyota FT-1 Graphite concept, add a more sophisticated look and feel to the original FT-1 concept, and is also in stark contrast to the race car inspired original red themed FT-1 concept model.
Both the new Toyota FT-1 Vision GT and the Toyota FT-1 with Graphite concepts can be downloaded from September in the Gran Turismo 6 on PlayStation 3.
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