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Toyota Confirms the Celica’s Return as a Rally Race Car for 2027

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Toyota Confirms the Celica’s Return as a Rally Race Car for 2027

The Celica will go racing in 2027, but its road-car counterpart is still years away and will likely share little with the rally car.

The Toyota Celica is coming back, and it’s going racing. Toyota today revealed its plans for the 2027 World Rally Championship, and the automaker decided to compete with two separate teams running two different cars. While Toyota Gazoo Racing will run the GR Yaris, a new team simply called Toyota Racing will field a new GR Celica rally car, which is expected to eventually spawn a road-going version too.

Both cars will compete in the top Rally1 class. The GR Celica race car will ride on a new control chassis that will be shared among all teams competing in Rally1 as part of a regulatory change for 2027. The new rules will also see Rally1 cars use adapted versions of the turbocharged 1.6-liter inline-four engines currently found in the Rally2 class. This means the GR Yaris Rally1 and GR Celica Rally1 will essentially be identical underneath, differentiated only by the bodywork placed atop the chassis.

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While the GR Celica will start its racing career in 2027, we may have to wait quite a bit longer before we can get behind the wheel of a new Celica on public roads. Changes to the rules mean that WRC teams can now race with cars that do not have a road-going counterpart, although we still expect Toyota to build a new Celica production car.


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