On our way back from the Geneva Motor Show, we stopped at the Toyota Allee in Cologne to visit Toyota Motorsport GmbH (TMG). We spent the morning in TMG's private museum and captured the highlights with the turbines of the wind-tunnel overhead running at full pelt. This has prompted us to take a closer look at the company's colourful history, which started with Swedish rally driver Ove Andersson running privately prepared Toyotas in the World Rally Championship in the early 1970s. During the next four decades, the team gradually evolved to become the Japanese manufacturer's official racing arm. During this period, Toyota Team Europe and later Toyota Motorsport GmbH was particularly successful in rallying, finished second at Le Mans twice and also ran Toyota's Formula 1 campaign. TMG's detailed history is illustrated by a 50-shot gallery.
One of the cars we singled out during our visit was the Toyota GT-One Road Car, which has not been seen in public for many years. It had originally been built to homologate the GT-One or TS020 competition car, which placed second at Le Mans in 1999. As a genuine homologation special the Road Car is equipped with only the bare necessities for street use and from the outside can hardly be distinguished from its competition counterparts. As can be seen in our 23-shot gallery, the Road Car does feature a complete interior.

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