{"id":2016948,"date":"2026-06-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2016948"},"modified":"2026-06-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T21:00:00","slug":"can-this-mad-mid-engined-toyota-concept-save-the-sportscar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2016948","title":{"rendered":"Can this mad, mid-engined Toyota concept save the sportscar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 hQwWlJ\">\n<div class=\"media media--type-youtube\">\n<p>  16 minutes 50 seconds<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Is Toyota about to save the sportscar? Maybe. A bit.<\/p>\n<p>Allow us to present the mad, mid-engined Toyota GR Yaris. You&#8217;ll know the GR Yaris traditionally has its engine in the nose, but this be no traditional GR Yaris, because it&#8217;s a testbed for a future mid-engined sportscar. Two of &#8217;em, actually.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 hQwWlJ\">\n<p>Because the concept&#8217;s 400bhp absolute unit can be deployed anywhere, which means: a new Celica! And a new Mister 2! Maybe!<\/p>\n<p>Top Gear&#8217;s Tom Ford plays detective&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 hQwWlJ\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.topgear.com\/car-reviews\/toyota\/prototype\/first-drive\">Toyota prototype review: this mid-engined Yaris is a test bed for the new Celica and MR2<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 minutes 50 seconds Is Toyota about to save the sportscar? Maybe. A bit. Allow us to present the mad, mid-engined Toyota GR Yaris. You&#8217;ll know the GR Yaris traditionally has its engine in the nose, but this be no traditional GR Yaris, because it&#8217;s a testbed for a future mid-engined sportscar. Two of &#8217;em, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-2016948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2016948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2016948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2016948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2016948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}