Toyota is aiming to push its Hilux pick-up truck ‘to new heights’ with the introduction of a new GR Sport II specification. Drawing inspiration from the legendarily gruelling Dakar Rally ...

but some people prefer to race a 2023 Toyota Land Cruiser GR-Sport against a Dakar-winning Toyota Hilux in Dubai. The words 'to each their own' have rarely rung so true as in this case.

Toyota can hardly be blamed for cashing ... Again, no Baja mode - or Dakar, even - though the GR Sport II looks fairly willing to cut loose in the scrub. So it’ll definitely be worth a try ...

Put simply, it’s a facelifted version of the eighth-gen Hilux with marginal tweaks in order to draw inspiration from (and provide a handy marketing link to) Toyota’s Dakar-winning Hilux.

Taking inspiration from the incredibly successful Dakar-winning Toyota HiLux — in fact, the HiLux claimed back-to-back victories in 2022 and 2023 — a team of Toyota engineers and designers helped to ...

There is plenty of power to take on the toughest of all road terrains, including deep soft sands like in the Dakar ... and chrome Toyota lettering (a GR Sport trademark) announce its presence.

Toyota has revealed the weapon it will rely on for the 2024 season of the Dakar Rally and W2RC ... Compared to the road-going GR Sport Hilux, the EVO T1U is slightly shorter but is much ...

The brand says these modifications are part of the GR Sport’s Dakar DNA allowing it to be “high and light” - and there's a local touch. The new look was developed in Melbourne. Around the back there ...

Notably, the GR Sport variant is the Land Cruiser that propelled Toyota to its most recent victory at the Dakar Rally. Here we should note that Toyota’s 10 consecutive wins were at the ...

The 2025 Dakar Rally witnessed an outstanding victory for Toyota, with Saudi Arabia’s ... who claimed first place in their No. 500 Land Cruiser 300 GR Sport, with Ronald Basso and co-driver ...

Toyota Gazoo Racing South Africa (TGRSA ... Villiers and co-driver Dennis Murphy will pilot the second GR DKR Hilux T1+, with Henk Lategan and Brett Cummings manning the third. Glyn Hall, TGR Dakar ...

However, we'll only feature the true high-performance variants, which means that there will be no GR Sport models. With that out of the water, here is every GR Toyota model ever built. Read more ...