Toyota GR hypercar will have no doors

The Toyota GR Super Sport hypercar will not be the sort of vehicle to encourage quick sprints to the corner shop.

New intel confirms the upcoming Toyota GR Super Sport hypercar, is proposing to do away with doors altogether, instead opting for a vertically-hinged canopy.

The pinnacle of Toyota’s GR (Gazoo Racing) performance sub-brand product assault, which includes the GR Supra coupe, GR Yaris hot hatch and upcoming GR Corolla, will be a road-legal hypercar that adopts a lot of the technologies developed for the Japanese giant's Le Mans-winning TS050 race car.

But Toyota Camry fans might not be too happy to hear it won’t have any doors.

Toyota has filed new applications with the US Patent and Trademark Office that show how occupants will enter and exit the multi-million-dollar sports car. And it doesn't look all that convenient, with one patent explaining how clasps on both sides of the car have be unlocked to get the canopy open.

Another patent drawing shows occupants swinging their legs over the car's massive side sills like they're sitting on a precarious tree branch.

But these are the sacrifices potential buyers may well need to accept if they want to own the very rare and desirable machine.

It’s not clear whether derivation of the Toyota TS050 racer’s cicra-735kW 2.4-litre V6 hybrid powertrain will make the transition to the new hypercar, but the GR Super Sport will be crazy fast, make no mistake.

The intense Toyota hypercar will fight the Aston Martin Valkyrie which in road-going form generates 865kW from its hybrid V12 powerplant. The Valkyrie will be super-light and deploy the sort of advanced aerodynamic aids usually reserved for the aerospace industry.

As such, expect Toyota to fire back with some tricky active aero bits for the GR Super Sport hypercar.

Toyota has to build just 20 road-going versions of the road-legal missile to be eligible for the new FIA World Endurance Championship Hypercar class, which includes the world’s most famous sports car race, Le Mans 24 Hour.

Together with Aston Martin's Valkyrie and the Glickenhaus SCG 007, Toyota will build several road rockets alongside the race-going versions to make it eligible for the legendary 24 hour race.

The Hypercar category will replace LMP1 and is scheduled to begin in 2021.

Toyota first announced it would build a hypercar back in 2017 when it teased the Toyota GR Super Sport Concept (pictured here).

Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda has been seen driving prototypes of the GR Super Sport in Japan and these latest patents confirm development is on track for the Japanese hypercar.

It’s not clear where the new vehicle will be sold, but the USA would have to be a slam dunk given these patent applications were lodged in the USA.

Two unnamed Aussies have made very genuine expressions of interest to buy the road-legal Toyota racer, but it’s not yet clear if any vehicles will make it Down Under.

“We have had a couple of approaches already,” stated Toyota Australia sales and marketing boss Sean Hanley.

“I have explained to these two very strong expressions of interest that there is a lot to work to do on that car before we can confirm it will come to this market. There is servicing, registration, which side it drives on, pricing.”