Race to win in the rain, hail, and blazing heat. Unique 4-player real-time PvP drag races. All licenced High-stakes betting for intense ¼-mile racing action. There is no indicator as to which party necessarily sought the exclusivity, but there you have it: an official stance on Toyota’s video game presence the last few years. Make your engine heard across the world’s most glamorous cities in all-out drag races Collect and race cars youve owned or always dreamed of. In the meantime, whether it’s Gran Turismo Sport, Forza or Need for Speed, keep on racing.” We’ll be really excited to share our future plans with you as soon as we’re able to. When you challenge us as to why Toyotas don’t appear in your favourite racing games, we don’t want to reply to you with a generic message, but we’re currently limited in what we can say and yesterday we got our response wrong. One of us even has fond memories of Pole Position on the Atari! Officially, Toyota Motor Corporation has no concrete plans to license its model range to any other games besides Gran Turismo Sport at the moment. Most of us in the Toyota GB social media team fell in love with cars through games like TOCA, Daytona and Gran Turismo. “We love that you want to see our cars in all your favourite racing games, and honestly, we want the same thing.
UPDATE (08.21.19): Toyota UK has released a series of tweets in regards to the (now-deleted) original “illegal street racing” comment:
