Toyota PH to accept pre-orders for the GR86 starting this weekend

Toyota Motor Philippines (TMP) will accept reservations for the much-awaited GR86 later this week.

In a statement, the leading automotive manufacturer said that sports car offering will be available for pre-orders starting August 6.

Those who want to know more details about the soon-to-be-released model, customers may visit the following GR Performance dealerships:  

Metro Manila	Luzon	Visayas
Toyota Alabang	Toyota Bacoor, Cavite	Toyota Cebu
Toyota Commonwealth	Toyota Batangas City	Toyota Mabolo Cebu
Toyota Global City	Toyota Calamba Laguna	Toyota Tacloban, Leyte
Toyota Makati	Toyota La Union
Toyota Manila Bay	Toyota Lipa, Batangas	Mindanao
Toyota Otis	Toyota San Pablo, Laguna	Toyota Davao City
Toyota Quezon Avenue	Toyota San Fernando, Pampanga
	Toyota Silang, Cavite

The model was previewed at the first-ever Philippine Toyota Gazoo Racing (GR) Festival. More than 180 individuals from the motoring media and the company’s dealer network joined the three-day event.

According to TMP, the car show and driving event is aimed to ignite the racer within everyone, with or without prior experience in motorsports. It was held at the Clark International Speedway last month.

“Driven by the Toyota Gazoo Racing global brand’s goal of pushing the limits for better, the GR Festival 2022 is a celebration of the growing love and passion for motorsports in the Philippines,” TMP shared.

Participants at the event were given the chance to join track activities such as braking and timed slalom, quarter-mile timed lap, follow the leader, and experience shotgun rides with Toyota Gazoo Racing ambassador Marlon Stockinger.

“We really love the energy here at the GR Festival, fueled by our shared love for cars, passion for the thrill and joy of driving, and driven by our common goal to promote motorsports in the country,” TMP President Atsuhiro Okamoto was quoted as saying.

“In a way, this is our initiation in staging a very participatory and experiential racing event, and soon, we’d like to open more activities like this for the public to fully live and appreciate the Toyota Gazoo Racing brand.”

The company noted that the dealer partners’ participation in the event is important to ensure that they have a deeper and more meaningful understanding of Toyota’s “ever-better cars”.

For one, Toyota Balintawak’s Cosco Oben said that the event enabled their team members to experience firsthand the fun in driving the vehicles and “be able to test its full potential on the racetrack.” “It leaves us with the statement that indeed our vehicles are really fun to drive again and it’s easier to share this to our clients because we had first-hand experience in driving our GR cars on the track,” he added.

Further, TMP noted that the Toyota GR is part of its aggressive drive to promote motorsports in the country and deliver the “thrill and joy of driving”, uplifting Toyota’s image to more than just a practical brand.

Photos by Ruben D. Manahan IV

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