We sure didn’t have this on our 2025 bingo card, and you probably didn’t, either: Toyota has officially pulled the wraps off not one, but three supercar heavy-hitters. Meet the 2027 Toyota GR GT, its race-ready GT3 counterpart, and the long-awaited successor to Lexus’ legendary LFA.

Toyota’s fun-car renaissance kicked off around the beginning of this decade, but this supercar triple-threat ushers in a new era. Toyota is no stranger to sports cars; the gravitas and connotations of a supercar is typically reserved for Lexus, but seemingly not anymore. Along with the heavy-hitting supercar triplets, Toyota announced it now considers its GR division — short for Gazoo Racing — its own sub-brand, not unlike what they’re going for with Century. In Japan; this means a separate sales network; in North America, the GR GT will be sold through a handful of Lexus dealers, at least initially.

Toyota GR GT, GR GT3

Toyota says the idea behind the GR GT comes from the principles of shikinen sengu. It’s a tradition rooted in Japanese culture, where a temple is torn down and rebuilt as a means to pass down knowledge and skills from one generation to another. Except here, instead of a temple, Toyota is drawing on the lessons and knowledge from the original Lexus LFA.

Unlike the LFA, which was made mostly out of carbon fibre, the GR GT is built on an aluminum structure. The fenders and doors are also aluminum, but there’s heaps of carbon fibre as well, including the hood, roof, rear bulkhead, door inners — not unlike the Lexus LC 500 — along with some driveline components. 

But the star of the show is a new 4.0-litre twin-turbocharged V8 under its long hood. It’s a hot vee arrangement, where the turbochargers sit in the “valley” between the cylinders. It also uses both direct and port fuel injection, and a dry-sump oiling system. It’s teamed to a rear-mounted eight-speed automatic with a built-in electric motor, a wet clutch instead of a torque converter, and gets a mechanical limited-slip differential to lay 11s off the line.

Toyota hasn’t dished final specs, but says they’re targeting 641 horsepower, 627 pound-feet of torque, and a top speed of at least 320 km/h. To keep the shiny side up, the GR GT uses a conventional control arm suspension setup up front and a multi-link arrangement out back, staggered 265/35/20 front and 325/30/20 rear Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2s, and carbon-ceramic brakes. And we already know it sounds fabulous.

Oh, it’s going racing, too. The GR GT3 variant will eventually replace Lexus’ RC F GT3 race car, albeit without the electric motor, per GT3 class rules. Toyota has yet to confirm when it’s hitting the track, but a debut for the 2027 season is most likely.

Lexus LFA concept

Lexus is joining in on the hype with its own variant of the GR GT, bearing a familiar nameplate. Though its still technically a concept, the reborn LFA sure looks production-ready, and has a few tricks up its sleeve to differentiate it from the GR GT.

It’s built atop the same aluminum-and-carbon-fibre chassis, and was developed at the same time as the GR GT. The key difference is what’s under the skin: where the original LFA used a legendary normally aspirated V10 engine, and the GR GT is a twin-turbo V8 hybrid, the reborn LFA is fully electric. Alas, that’s all we know about the powertrain; Lexus is still tight-lipped on the specs, performance, engineering, range, and charging — in other words, all the important stuff.

Same but different

Both the GR GT and LFA wear their own distinct styles, though the similarities between the two are apparent. They both wear the classic sports-car proportions — a long hood and a short rear deck — along with deliciously wide haunches front and rear. We’d argue the LFA is a little more cohesive-looking than the GR GT, but we’ll reserve final judgement until we see both in the flesh. Inside, both feature driver-centric layouts and seemingly very low driving positions; the Lexus is obviously more futuristic-looking, though the final production-ready product may end up being a little more grounded. 

Toyota says we can expect to see the 2027 Toyota GR GT in Japan dealers in late 2026, followed by North America in 2027. Given it’s still a concept, we wouldn’t be surprised if the reborn Lexus LFA followed in 2028 — but either way, we can’t wait.