Toyota Continue Development Of Gazoo Division, Toyoda Involved Again?

JAKARTA - Since serving as CEO for Toyota in January replacing Akio Toyoda, Koji Sato has made a breakthrough to advance his products. One of them is to continue the Gazoo Racing (GR) division by continuing the development of the model.

Sato took over as President and CEO of Toyota Motor Corporation replacing the grandson of the founder of Toyota, Akio Toyoda, who moved to Chairman.

During his tenure as CEO, Toyoda played a major role in the founding of the GR division, as well as supporting the racing division to compete in rallies and world resilience championships. He also has a position as a "Master Driver", where he is directly involved in developing the GR division.

Koji Sato revealed that his party will accelerate the development of the Gazoo Racing brand for the future.

"Brand Gazoo Racing will always be recognized in the future and maybe we will even accelerate it," said Sato, quoted from Autocar, Sunday, April 30, 2023.

He also added that with Akio Toyoda who is placed in the position of Chairman, it is possible that Toyoda has more time to develop cars for GR.

"Master Driver (Akio Toyoda) is the company's leader and at the same time he is in control of the Gazoo Racing division. Now, he's just the chairman, maybe he has more time to develop the car for them?," added Sato.

So far, Toyota has presented several cars developed by Gazoo Racing, such as GR86, Supra, Yaris, and Corolla.

In Indonesia, several models of GR variants were also presented, such as Agya, Rush, Raize, and the upcoming SUV, RAV4.

Toyota has not disclosed more about the next model that Gazoo Racing will present. However, they are currently considering their newest SUV, bZ4x to be included in its ranks.