Hey guys, hoped you all enjoyed this one! There’s just something I want to add here, because I couldn’t really fit it into the video but I know other people will be thinking the same thing, which is that - it is an absolute crime that the GT300 Prius never appeared in a Gran Turismo game. I know that I uploaded a video last week talking about how these types of race cars often get overlooked in GT, but even still it’s exactly the type of quirky and interesting car that used to appear in those games. Back when it was still racing, I was all but convinced that we would see it in Gran Turismo eventually, but it just never happened. Sadly this is more of a reflection on how Super GT / JGTC and Gran Turismo - which used to be almost synonymous with each other - have kind of drifted apart over time. Seriously - we’ve only had two new JAF GT300 cars in these games in the past 15 years, and if you discount Subaru BRZs, literally none. And the latest GT500s we have are from 2016 - that’s practically ancient history at this point! Maybe I’ll make a video discussing that topic further one day, but in case you’re wondering, to date the GT300 Prius has only made a single videogame appearance in any form. It featured in SEGA World Drivers Championship - an officially licenced Super GT arcade racer from 2017 where both the 2017 and 2016 versions of the car are included (see here: th-cam.com/video/i1GqKBVh2j4/w-d-xo.html)
I love imagining a GT300 driver who drove a Huracan or R8 going home to his wife, she asked “How was the race today?” And his response being “Got overtaken by a Prius”.
The wife would've slapped him... After all, Roflwaffle did beat a GT World Championship with a tuned Suzuki GSX R4 against some GT300/touring cars, so... yeah.
@HerrZenki Hmm, Tsuchiya and Orido mentioned or spotted in separate Roflwaffle videos... I wonder if Roflwaffle is going to do a Tsuchiya "story of" thing.. That would be epic.
Hatsune Miku liveried Mercedes and BMWs, Toyota Priuses, Honda CR-Zs and Bentley Continentals racing each other. Only in Japan stuff like this is considered normal.
SCCA GT-1 rules are basically: 1. You need the stock roof from a production car, (Yes, just cut it off and build a racecar underneath it.) 2. You need a pushrod V8 with a 4-barrel carburetor, and a maximum displacement of 390ci. 3. The roof and the engine need to be made by the same company. That third one is the fun part. Let's say you have a 1996 Mitsubishi Eclipse. Mitsubishi don't make a pushrod V8. (That I'm aware of? It wouldn't surprise me if they did at some point.) Well, you're in luck, because at the same time your Eclipse was being built, Chrysler was working with Mitsubishi. Which means you can pull the drivetrain out of an old Plymouth Duster, build a steel spaceframe racecar chassis, build a nice sleek fiberglass body, slap that Eclipse roof on top of it, and BOOM! As far as the SCCA is concerned, this unholy abomination you've created is - for all intents and purposes - a 1996 Mitsubishi Eclipse. So a Prius - a car designed for maximum fuel efficiency - would actually be the PERFECT silhouette racer. And you know who has connections with Toyota? Chevrolet. Which means you could run any GM Small Block V8.
Thank you. That intro had my eyes spinning, because everyone with half a brain knows the name, and apparantly the roof, is the only commonality these race cars share with their road version.
So are you saying that Toyota put the Prius in Trans am? That would be like Audi’s 200 in 1988. Granted Ta is basically dead (ta2 isn’t) but it would be funny.
Make me wonder how a Diesel Hybrid would do, there would be some challenges considering soot from the diesel accumulating conserning DPF/EGR system and so on, but looking at the MB C class i have that can easily reach under 5l/100km (would be 35 liters for 700km)
what do you mean by vectra can race in btcc, it was a saloon with a great engine. 20NE engines are still sought after to this day but the car itself was meh.
We Americans had the Powerpuff Girls in NASCAR... TWICE. 1998 with Jerry Nadeau (9, for a few races) and 2000 with Wally Dahlenbach Jr. (75, only at the Daytona 500)
Along the the GSR Hatsune Miku Mercedes, there is also the Pacific Racing VSPO Brave Group Mercedes. VSPO is a Vtuber organization mostly focused on E-sports
@@Nagato_TruePain Don't forget that Pacific is the one who brought Love Live sponsored 911 GT3R and McLaren MP4-12C, along with that time where they've got the Hololive sponsored Ferrari 488 GT3 in 2022 :)
Roflwaffle will never admit this but there's a reason why he'll never make a video on Hatsune Miku's GT300 team: Hatsune Miku: Excuse me, are you British? Roflwaffle: Yes, yes I am. Hatsune Miku: Oh no... Oh NO NO NO NO NO. Hatsune Miku does NOT talk to British people.
I grew up hating the Prius and then dated a girl that owned one and I drove it a lot. Fell in love with it. And bought one for myself. It's not fast but it drives nice and is amazing on gas and maintenance.
8:26 For those wondering this is the Toyota Supra HV-R. Not the Toyota Supra HRV. It's a simple mistake but it made it so much harder for me to look it up when I wanted to learn more about it. Any search terms with HRV and Hybrid just gives the Honda HRV Hybrid and any search terms with Toyota Supra Hybrid just give speculation about Supras going Hybrid from like 2014.
18:04 Driving a Lamborghini Huracán and being overtaken by a Toyota Prius AROUND! THE! OUTSIDE! 😭💀 I would "soil my trousers" and unfortunately nvr be seen again 😢
Always had a soft spot to that silly Touring Car Prius because of Gran Turismo, had no idea they raced in GT300 as well. I love how quirky SuperGT is, Thanks for giving me a new favorite car every couple of weeks Roflwaffle.
Honestly, every silhouette race cars amazes me. Yeah sure, the only production bits were none other than some grills, headlights or the carbon fibre shells in which ‘pretends’ to have a similar look/shapes with their road-going counterparts…but that’s the beauty of it….cause underneath these things are basically: a prototype race cars.
ngl, the current gen Toyota Prius, the way they redesigned it, actually looks like a pretty nice car. And they gave the stock one a big HP increase. I actually think the idea for a GR Prius actually doesn't seem that far-fetched.
Fun fact: Koki Saga was also known for having the most funny team introductions in SUPER GT’s “All Drivers Appearance” always dressing up in whacky costumes representing the different race tracks and prefectures of where SUPER GT competed.
My favorite cars in any form of racing are the ones that try something unconventional, whether they see success with it or not. I feel like the road-going Prius is just now dipping its toes in cool, but the Prius race cars? Very, very cool.
I kinda secretly, liked the 4th gen Prius. I still wouldn't tell anyone this at the time, or own one. Then I learned there was a Prius racing and it only blew my mind.
Mine is also 2016 in white. I do the same thing as in the video. There is this steep downhill by my house with a sharp right curve. 3+3 lane road. The lights are predictable and optimized. It has a long runoff after the corner. It’s essentially a stoplight followed by a racetrack corner followed by another racetrack corner. If I see anyone floor it at the light, I floor it too and utilize all three lanes to overtake. I’ve overtaken a Porsche Taycan, mustang GT, corvette, many teslas, anyone who clearly has an ego. The most challenging was a a supercharged Dinan BMW Z3 S54, the driver was experienced at racing too and the lights were not in my favor for overtaking, he timed the lights too. I hit 100 that time. Gave each other a thumbs up. We’ll call it a tie; experience respects experience.
@storyexe243 Here’s something better; imagine if there was an All-Japan rally raid-styled series, featuring the Big 3's vans. Hopefully, encouraging Mitsubishi to participate with their Delica van; given the history of certain generations of the van share the same AWD underpinnings as the Pajero/Montero.
The Super GT Prius will always live in my head rent-free. You can never go wrong with the prospect of bringing what people dub as the most hated car for whichever their reason is to a racing series. It was amazing to see.
Your videos are what got me into Super GT. Me and my gf have watched every race so far this season and it's been by far the highlight of my racing calendar. Thanks, Rofl.
Love these obscure JGTC/Super GT retrospectives! Personally, I find it sad that GT300 oddities auch as the Prius have been legislated out of existence in favour of the more ubiquitous "mass production" GT3 cars. But that's true of nearly all motorsport series now
Just a sign of where racing is going. Out wth the interesting. The fun. The out of the box. In with the slog of GT3, electrification, and boredom. I want to see rulebooks favoring the oddballs. The weird and wonderful.
My dad had a 2014 Prius+ as his taxi car of choice and he was pretty happy with it, it was durable, its fuel efluency was nuts(althoug my father did modify the gas tank to also accept GLP as fuel) but it had a pretty good acceleration and my father could go into 150kph easily in the highway. He switched into a Nissan Ariya last year because the car was going to have 10 years and the switch from a hybrid into an electric car has been also good for him, although the new car was more expensive than the old one since it's an electric suv. Funilly enough, I felt more comfy in the Prius+ than in the Ariya although I've ridden that car like two times but tbh, I'm a tall guy.
I was listening to this video through earbuds and work, and had to stifle a chuckle at the phrase "Hatsune Miku Mercedes." Racing a Prius in Super GT reminded me of the time Volvo decided to race the 850 estate in the BTCC back in the day (mid 90s?).
Speaking of the Prius GT which races in GT300. I think it'll be a great video to cover some of the weird & awesome cars from GT300. GT500 always gets the spotlight but GT300 honestly has far more variety & uniqueness that gives Super GT as a whole its charm
This is why Super GT / JGTC was so interesting, the biggest appeal for the series was the variety and freedom to create vastly different cars, and get some results in the process. From McLaren F1s to SC430s to Prius to even the amazing HSV, you could watch literally anything have a go at it. And they all looked cool. Best sounding Super GT ever has to go to the HSV, but you could make a case for Nob Taniguchi´s Z4 GT3 (another gorgeous car in the Hatsune Miku livery). Now, with the DTM joint deal they´ve got going on, it seems we will also lose that variety. It´s really sad.
i went from hating the prius to liking the prius, honestly hybrids are kinda cool now and the last two generations of prius have been pretty good looking cars. The latest prius would look great as a gt3 car.
The best "in real life" Priri were the 2-door coupe, and the 4-door wagon for their looks. But adding a mid-mounted V-8 would have been killer as a daily driver!
Now that you mentioned it, Super GT also have "tyre war" aside from the usual manufacturers and drivers championship. It's a really exciting racing series. Sadly it's quite hard to find a lot of coverage for it.
I actually think that the Prius looks kinda cool (very aerodynamic as well) with design cues that wouldn’t be THAT out of place for a performance car. Just gotta make it lower and wider, with larger tires to make the proportions look right…and lo and behold the Super GT GT300 Prius does just that…also Super GT always has the coolest looking bodykits on production-based cars…with some (including the GT300 Prius and GT500 R35 GT-R (2008-13)) even reminding me of late Gen 4 NASCAR cars with how the nose looks like it’s practically grinding against the pavement…
Again, this is a good video because of your interesting subject matter, scripting, narration, etcetera! It's interesting even though this is a subject that I have only once in a while wondered about but never cared enough about to take the time to even search it out. Thank you for taking the time, effort, interest, etcetera to research, waffle and post about a subject that you find interesting.
While apr's undoubtedly known and good at their mid engine design, their front-engine design is also as interesting in my opinion, and one that does have successes. The thing with apr is that their front engined cars has a signature look. Very thick on the front yet slim and thin at the back, since it's all bespoke chassis and not based on a production one. Other than the GR86 GT300, they also has a part in building the Supra GT300, which also has that signature bulky front end. Saitama Green Brave won in 2023, so technically a front-engine car that has apr involvement has won a championship.
Great Video! This is why I love the series, these odd cars turned into racing machines. Especcialy the gt300 machinery has always fascined me. Unfortunatly I am struggling to find good footage about these cars on YT.
Always had a soft spot for the Prius and the CRZ, bonkers cars that had no business being on track but did so and were damn cool doing it. I did read that when the whole class 1 touring car stuff was being worked on, a lot of the teams running GT3 machinery like the lambos wanted the Prius banned as it was hurting the image of these prestige european brands to be passed by a Prius out on track. Real shame to hear that the timing not lining up on the production of the 5th gen Prius robbed us of the continuation of Priuses? Prii? in superGT but neat to know they still race a hybrid even if it isn't a Prius
really love you research on such a hard to find topics, would love a video on modern gt500 cars and how are they developed to reach similar lap times to current le mans hyperclass, its a shame no current racing game has full roster of japan gt championship
Thanks for the video, really glad I found this channel. In Ukraine Prius is most known as police car, so we can see this cars patrolling every day. But video vibe has made me think of Prius like race car, not police one:)
I don't know how interested you'd be in making a video on it, but in all of these SuperGT videos I've always found the presence of the Hatsune Miku/Goodsmile team incredibly distracting and funny and I'd love to know just how it came about and what their whole deal is and how they tend to place.
35:22 so this is the Lexus VGT done for real, the Lexus LC500H both being based on the LC500. This is the same case kinda like the Mclaren VGT turned into the Solus GT and the Bugatti VGT being a Race car version of the Chiron.
Here me out, a mid engined AWD Toyota Prius that combines the LFA's V10 engine with electric motors and uses the AWD system from the Toyota GR Corolla and the active aero bits from the SRT Tomahawk.
I would love to see you make a video on the Japanese makes that only appeared in GT300 like Mazda, Subaru, and Mitsubishi. Maybe even throw Vemac and ASL in there too.
Honestly, this has a similar energy to the Volvo 850 estate racing in the BTCC in 1994. Only the Toyota was much more successful. A car which surely no-one in their right mind would think 'yeah, that'll be a successful racing car', yet some madlads decided to give it a shot anyway. Pretty cool looking car though. It is a little odd seeing 4-door cars in a GT series like Super GT though, given that I associate them more with Touring Car series like the BTCC or Supercars (not that the latter uses 4-door cars these days).
I got a 3rd gen prius to replace my ailing 2001 QX4. damn nice little grocery getter and commuter. has more power than you'd expect for a prius, and handles pretty well. It's actually kind of a fun car to drive. Not nearly as fun as my beat to shit integra back when it was in its prime, but for what it is, it's actually decent. It's comfortable, relatively quiet, and hillariously spins the front tires when exiting some parking lots or when it hits a patch of dirt or water when making a turn from a stop.
I had a 2009 Prius for a few years, and I honestly loved that car. I regret selling it in all reality, it was just a damn good car. Who cares about how slow it was? I got 50mpg on my work commute, and I was damn pleased with it. When I first learned of the GT300 car, I fell in love. I can see myself getting a 4th gen or plug-in 5th gen as a new daily eventually; I just prefer how the Toyota hybrids drive. I replaced the 2nd gen prius with a 3rd gen Insight; it's faster, and it's not a bad car, but after driving another Toyota hybrid again I really want to go back... Either way, I love hybrids because of how exceptionally practical they are. Anyways, Hatsune Miku car next?
Love this video was hoping you would cover this car. My favourite Super GT car along with HSV 010.❤ Sound a bit silly but i put this up there with the Ford Supervan and Espace F1.
Amazing story and a GREAT video! Even 2nd generation Prius is more technologically advanced than the latest Bugatti. 4th gen Prius has the engine with the second highest thermal efficiency of ANY production car bested only by Mazda's latest Sky engines... which are now used in the 5th gen Prius and Corollas. Not to mention insane compression ratios that no other car maker can dream of in a production engine let alone make one. So what you have in a Prius 3rd gen upward is, in effect, a detuned racing engine. Of course, not a match for Super GT. But given the fact that the Toyota's HSD is still the best hybrid system on the market, it only makes sense to match it with the V8. But Prius, with its engines and aerodynamic efficiency, is a PERFECT base for a race car :D
tbh the part of using the Prius as it was mentioned, felt like playing a GT playthrough challenge, which on its own it made, just like the Diablo GTR, sometimes as the last quote said, you don't need your average national sports car, even with creativity anything can join and put on a fight fully race derived machinery
Hey guys, hoped you all enjoyed this one!
There’s just something I want to add here, because I couldn’t really fit it into the video but I know other people will be thinking the same thing, which is that - it is an absolute crime that the GT300 Prius never appeared in a Gran Turismo game.
I know that I uploaded a video last week talking about how these types of race cars often get overlooked in GT, but even still it’s exactly the type of quirky and interesting car that used to appear in those games. Back when it was still racing, I was all but convinced that we would see it in Gran Turismo eventually, but it just never happened.
Sadly this is more of a reflection on how Super GT / JGTC and Gran Turismo - which used to be almost synonymous with each other - have kind of drifted apart over time. Seriously - we’ve only had two new JAF GT300 cars in these games in the past 15 years, and if you discount Subaru BRZs, literally none. And the latest GT500s we have are from 2016 - that’s practically ancient history at this point!
Maybe I’ll make a video discussing that topic further one day, but in case you’re wondering, to date the GT300 Prius has only made a single videogame appearance in any form. It featured in SEGA World Drivers Championship - an officially licenced Super GT arcade racer from 2017 where both the 2017 and 2016 versions of the car are included (see here: th-cam.com/video/i1GqKBVh2j4/w-d-xo.html)
theres too many race cars slipped thru Polyphony's mind :(
@Roflwaffle16 would you like to see the car in gran turismo 7 & beyond if they added
IMO apr woul use the new Lexus GT3 for GT300, could you make a vid about the GT300 BRZ?
finally someone talking underrated prius gt300,
Also lotus evora is underrated
@@fqeagles21 Oh yeah please make a video about Sega WDC XD
I love imagining a GT300 driver who drove a Huracan or R8 going home to his wife, she asked “How was the race today?” And his response being “Got overtaken by a Prius”.
The wife would've slapped him...
After all, Roflwaffle did beat a GT World Championship with a tuned Suzuki GSX R4 against some GT300/touring cars, so... yeah.
and that Huracan guy was Orido of Best Motoring/Hot Version fame!
@HerrZenki Hmm, Tsuchiya and Orido mentioned or spotted in separate Roflwaffle videos... I wonder if Roflwaffle is going to do a Tsuchiya "story of" thing.. That would be epic.
@@shaneharrisnj3484 perhaps...someday
@@HerrZenki And Orido would later drive one
"Hatsune Miku spoiling the last season of the mid-engine GT300 Prius" was not on my bingo card
That hatusne Miku Mercedes is still racing today in gt300. I always do a spit take everytime the commentators point out the car
welcome to supergt 😭🙏
Hatsune Miku liveried Mercedes and BMWs, Toyota Priuses, Honda CR-Zs and Bentley Continentals racing each other.
Only in Japan stuff like this is considered normal.
@@sdx3918super gt in a nutshell
NOB Taniguchi of Best Motoring fame drove that one to victory.
SCCA GT-1 rules are basically:
1. You need the stock roof from a production car, (Yes, just cut it off and build a racecar underneath it.)
2. You need a pushrod V8 with a 4-barrel carburetor, and a maximum displacement of 390ci.
3. The roof and the engine need to be made by the same company.
That third one is the fun part. Let's say you have a 1996 Mitsubishi Eclipse. Mitsubishi don't make a pushrod V8. (That I'm aware of? It wouldn't surprise me if they did at some point.) Well, you're in luck, because at the same time your Eclipse was being built, Chrysler was working with Mitsubishi. Which means you can pull the drivetrain out of an old Plymouth Duster, build a steel spaceframe racecar chassis, build a nice sleek fiberglass body, slap that Eclipse roof on top of it, and BOOM! As far as the SCCA is concerned, this unholy abomination you've created is - for all intents and purposes - a 1996 Mitsubishi Eclipse.
So a Prius - a car designed for maximum fuel efficiency - would actually be the PERFECT silhouette racer. And you know who has connections with Toyota? Chevrolet. Which means you could run any GM Small Block V8.
I like the way you think!
Thank you.
That intro had my eyes spinning, because everyone with half a brain knows the name, and apparantly the roof, is the only commonality these race cars share with their road version.
So are you saying that Toyota put the Prius in Trans am? That would be like Audi’s 200 in 1988. Granted Ta is basically dead (ta2 isn’t) but it would be funny.
So if Porsche decides to jump in and use the Panzer V12 engine it's perfectly legal?
This is something I would do, but with a 2nd gen (W203) C Class because DaimlerChrysler
1:42 you may be cool but you'll never be as cool as this guy overtaking a Lamborghini with a Prius.
Real😂
The 5th Gen Prius is amazing. I rented one for 4 days while I was in Japan. It managed 700 Kilometers on 30 Liters of fuel... and i dont know how.
It's rather good looking too
They should make it into a gt4 car haha
The latest gen Prius looks downright gorgeous compared to its predecessors
Make me wonder how a Diesel Hybrid would do, there would be some challenges considering soot from the diesel accumulating conserning DPF/EGR system and so on, but looking at the MB C class i have that can easily reach under 5l/100km (would be 35 liters for 700km)
@@Gollet95 Look at the VW XL1
If the Prius can race in SuperGT and the Vauxhall Vectra in BTCC, just goes to show anything's possible in motorsport.
Difference is though, that Vauxhall did have a hot Vectra unlike the Prius.
what do you mean by vectra can race in btcc, it was a saloon with a great engine. 20NE engines are still sought after to this day but the car itself was meh.
The btcc is literally for cars like the vectra...
@@BigLeek-ig3sb utterly why it exists
Not the Vectra but more like the 850 wagon, Civic FK wagon and Levorg
23:15 the combination of hatsune miku and mercedes is something id never expect in any lifetime. only in super gt. 😂
We Americans had the Powerpuff Girls in NASCAR... TWICE. 1998 with Jerry Nadeau (9, for a few races) and 2000 with Wally Dahlenbach Jr. (75, only at the Daytona 500)
Not only hatsune miku, evangelion and love live also in supergt... And toy story,,, etc
Along the the GSR Hatsune Miku Mercedes, there is also the Pacific Racing VSPO Brave Group Mercedes. VSPO is a Vtuber organization mostly focused on E-sports
@@Nagato_TruePain Don't forget that Pacific is the one who brought Love Live sponsored 911 GT3R and McLaren MP4-12C, along with that time where they've got the Hololive sponsored Ferrari 488 GT3 in 2022 :)
Hasune Miku x Toto Wolff collab when?
Imagine if the Prius was used in NASCAR instead of the Camry tho. It would Have been totally broken
Win on Sunday sell on Monday
I love the prius and crz race cars they're both wacky yet beautiful
Agreed❤
Crz always has my heart. Road and gt300 machine
The Top Gear mentality toward hybrid vehicles was really harmful to the industry; it’s actually pretty gross in retrospect
Fly as the intro is just GOLD.
Honestly never expected to find myself on a Tuesday afternoon watching a video essay on the Prius, of all cars
_I would love a video about Hatsune Miku's GT300 team, it's such a bizarre combination of worlds, id rly like to know more about the origins._ 😭
Roflwaffle will never admit this but there's a reason why he'll never make a video on Hatsune Miku's GT300 team:
Hatsune Miku: Excuse me, are you British?
Roflwaffle: Yes, yes I am.
Hatsune Miku: Oh no... Oh NO NO NO NO NO. Hatsune Miku does NOT talk to British people.
@@CyanRooper _I had completely forgot about that meme, absolutely lovely._ 🤣
One day we will get that Hatsune Miku AMG video. 🙏
@@CyanRooper seKAAAAAI
Not only hatsune miku, evangelion and love live also in supergt... And toy story,,, etc
I grew up hating the Prius and then dated a girl that owned one and I drove it a lot. Fell in love with it. And bought one for myself. It's not fast but it drives nice and is amazing on gas and maintenance.
Best car I've ever owned. It just works, it's quiet, efficient, does just what it needs to.
8:26 For those wondering this is the Toyota Supra HV-R. Not the Toyota Supra HRV. It's a simple mistake but it made it so much harder for me to look it up when I wanted to learn more about it. Any search terms with HRV and Hybrid just gives the Honda HRV Hybrid and any search terms with Toyota Supra Hybrid just give speculation about Supras going Hybrid from like 2014.
18:04 Driving a Lamborghini Huracán and being overtaken by a Toyota Prius AROUND! THE! OUTSIDE! 😭💀 I would "soil my trousers" and unfortunately nvr be seen again 😢
11:35 that HSV coming from nowhere to pass on the outside so easily is just beautiful. I love that car.
Always had a soft spot to that silly Touring Car Prius because of Gran Turismo, had no idea they raced in GT300 as well.
I love how quirky SuperGT is, Thanks for giving me a new favorite car every couple of weeks Roflwaffle.
Nice Lambo U got there. Would be a shame if a hybrid taxi car overtook you in turn1 at Suzuka...
No, seriously, this is quickly becoming my favorite TH-cam channel. Thank you so much for your effort to make these videos as good as they are.
Honestly, every silhouette race cars amazes me. Yeah sure, the only production bits were none other than some grills, headlights or the carbon fibre shells in which ‘pretends’ to have a similar look/shapes with their road-going counterparts…but that’s the beauty of it….cause underneath these things are basically: a prototype race cars.
ngl, the current gen Toyota Prius, the way they redesigned it, actually looks like a pretty nice car. And they gave the stock one a big HP increase. I actually think the idea for a GR Prius actually doesn't seem that far-fetched.
A gr prius would just be a tesla
Ngl that Mugen CR-Z is so sexy.
Fun fact: Koki Saga was also known for having the most funny team introductions in SUPER GT’s “All Drivers Appearance” always dressing up in whacky costumes representing the different race tracks and prefectures of where SUPER GT competed.
Your music choice for these videos is always so great,
it inspires me when I'm stuck with no OST to use
He really does pick great soundtracks! The last one in this video I swear I've heard before but I can't place where or what it is
@@justinblake2783 in the description
My favorite cars in any form of racing are the ones that try something unconventional, whether they see success with it or not. I feel like the road-going Prius is just now dipping its toes in cool, but the Prius race cars? Very, very cool.
I kinda secretly, liked the 4th gen Prius. I still wouldn't tell anyone this at the time, or own one. Then I learned there was a Prius racing and it only blew my mind.
Mine is also 2016 in white. I do the same thing as in the video.
There is this steep downhill by my house with a sharp right curve. 3+3 lane road. The lights are predictable and optimized. It has a long runoff after the corner. It’s essentially a stoplight followed by a racetrack corner followed by another racetrack corner. If I see anyone floor it at the light, I floor it too and utilize all three lanes to overtake.
I’ve overtaken a Porsche Taycan, mustang GT, corvette, many teslas, anyone who clearly has an ego. The most challenging was a a supercharged Dinan BMW Z3 S54, the driver was experienced at racing too and the lights were not in my favor for overtaking, he timed the lights too. I hit 100 that time. Gave each other a thumbs up. We’ll call it a tie; experience respects experience.
this is why i absolutely love supergt and japanese racing
Imagine a gt300 or hell even a gt500 lineup with the big 3s vans now that would be a race to behold
Toyota Hiace vs Nissan NV vs does Honda even make vans
@@ilmarilah1195 I guess they can use an Odyssey
@@ilmarilah1195 I mean, there's one in Deadpool 3.
@storyexe243
Here’s something better; imagine if there was an All-Japan rally raid-styled series, featuring the Big 3's vans. Hopefully, encouraging Mitsubishi to participate with their Delica van; given the history of certain generations of the van share the same AWD underpinnings as the Pajero/Montero.
@@taegonlewis1398 the super rally
16:37 wait, wait, wait.... So you're saying... There's a mid engine, road legal, homologated prius somewhere out there?
rude of Toyota to keep it to themselves
Its not a Prius, its a Silhouette car....
No
No, he said APR just managed to homologate their mid engine prius just two days *before* the new rule set in.
So no mid engine prius 😢😔
The Super GT Prius will always live in my head rent-free. You can never go wrong with the prospect of bringing what people dub as the most hated car for whichever their reason is to a racing series. It was amazing to see.
Your videos are what got me into Super GT. Me and my gf have watched every race so far this season and it's been by far the highlight of my racing calendar. Thanks, Rofl.
Love these obscure JGTC/Super GT retrospectives! Personally, I find it sad that GT300 oddities auch as the Prius have been legislated out of existence in favour of the more ubiquitous "mass production" GT3 cars. But that's true of nearly all motorsport series now
Just a sign of where racing is going. Out wth the interesting. The fun. The out of the box. In with the slog of GT3, electrification, and boredom.
I want to see rulebooks favoring the oddballs. The weird and wonderful.
Wow! To see a full out racing car of Toyota Prius is so cool! Great video my guy. 👍🏽
My dad had a 2014 Prius+ as his taxi car of choice and he was pretty happy with it, it was durable, its fuel efluency was nuts(althoug my father did modify the gas tank to also accept GLP as fuel) but it had a pretty good acceleration and my father could go into 150kph easily in the highway. He switched into a Nissan Ariya last year because the car was going to have 10 years and the switch from a hybrid into an electric car has been also good for him, although the new car was more expensive than the old one since it's an electric suv. Funilly enough, I felt more comfy in the Prius+ than in the Ariya although I've ridden that car like two times but tbh, I'm a tall guy.
I was listening to this video through earbuds and work, and had to stifle a chuckle at the phrase "Hatsune Miku Mercedes."
Racing a Prius in Super GT reminded me of the time Volvo decided to race the 850 estate in the BTCC back in the day (mid 90s?).
Yes. The TWR cars.
Speaking of the Prius GT which races in GT300. I think it'll be a great video to cover some of the weird & awesome cars from GT300.
GT500 always gets the spotlight but GT300 honestly has far more variety & uniqueness that gives Super GT as a whole its charm
True. There's plenty of unique cars in this, like the FTO, the Front wheel drive T20 Celica, the team Kraft AE86, the Mark X...
It really is a shame that the Pirus GT300 hasn’t been in GT. Maybe one day.
it makes no sense how Polyphony not know about these things
Technically, we had the Prius Touring Car in GT5 & 6, but that's all we've got.
21:38 someone should do a meme about the merc back there
The Prius road car to race car is possibly *the* biggest glow-up in automotive history.
I was very fortunate enough to see super gt at fuji in 2014 and 2017. Seeing the prius race.
This is why Super GT / JGTC was so interesting, the biggest appeal for the series was the variety and freedom to create vastly different cars, and get some results in the process. From McLaren F1s to SC430s to Prius to even the amazing HSV, you could watch literally anything have a go at it. And they all looked cool. Best sounding Super GT ever has to go to the HSV, but you could make a case for Nob Taniguchi´s Z4 GT3 (another gorgeous car in the Hatsune Miku livery).
Now, with the DTM joint deal they´ve got going on, it seems we will also lose that variety. It´s really sad.
Always a good day when there's fresh waffles on the plate
i went from hating the prius to liking the prius, honestly hybrids are kinda cool now and the last two generations of prius have been pretty good looking cars. The latest prius would look great as a gt3 car.
Super GT+ P5 music+ Gran Turismo soundtrack+ F1 2010 soundtrack =Peak video
I really need to start following Japanese GT racing full time, the stories coming out of it are wild
Prius and LC500, name a more badass SuperGT duo.
The best "in real life" Priri were the 2-door coupe, and the 4-door wagon for their looks.
But adding a mid-mounted V-8 would have been killer as a daily driver!
Fun Fact: Morio Nitta, now 57, still races in Super GT today and even got a podium at Autopolis 2 weeks ago.
This is why Super GT is my favourite series, epic cars
‘’d-doctor i-I saw a Toyota p-prius o-overtaking a… a-a Lambo’’
Unironically one of my favorite race cars, especially the later versions. The Prius Prime version is so sexy.
the stock prius was sh*t but when u put those Wide super GT bodykit. the prius is something else and looks agressive. 🔥🔥🔥
0:24 not really, all you need to do is remember pontiac exists
Only American got the Pontiac, the entire world got the Prius….
Now that you mentioned it, Super GT also have "tyre war" aside from the usual manufacturers and drivers championship. It's a really exciting racing series. Sadly it's quite hard to find a lot of coverage for it.
I actually think that the Prius looks kinda cool (very aerodynamic as well) with design cues that wouldn’t be THAT out of place for a performance car. Just gotta make it lower and wider, with larger tires to make the proportions look right…and lo and behold the Super GT GT300 Prius does just that…also Super GT always has the coolest looking bodykits on production-based cars…with some (including the GT300 Prius and GT500 R35 GT-R (2008-13)) even reminding me of late Gen 4 NASCAR cars with how the nose looks like it’s practically grinding against the pavement…
Again, this is a good video because of your interesting subject matter, scripting, narration, etcetera! It's interesting even though this is a subject that I have only once in a while wondered about but never cared enough about to take the time to even search it out. Thank you for taking the time, effort, interest, etcetera to research, waffle and post about a subject that you find interesting.
31:49 the music reestablished my interest again ^-^
this is the most unhinged racing series of all time i gotta watch this
While apr's undoubtedly known and good at their mid engine design, their front-engine design is also as interesting in my opinion, and one that does have successes.
The thing with apr is that their front engined cars has a signature look. Very thick on the front yet slim and thin at the back, since it's all bespoke chassis and not based on a production one.
Other than the GR86 GT300, they also has a part in building the Supra GT300, which also has that signature bulky front end. Saitama Green Brave won in 2023, so technically a front-engine car that has apr involvement has won a championship.
Great Video! This is why I love the series, these odd cars turned into racing machines. Especcialy the gt300 machinery has always fascined me. Unfortunatly I am struggling to find good footage about these cars on YT.
Always had a soft spot for the Prius and the CRZ, bonkers cars that had no business being on track but did so and were damn cool doing it. I did read that when the whole class 1 touring car stuff was being worked on, a lot of the teams running GT3 machinery like the lambos wanted the Prius banned as it was hurting the image of these prestige european brands to be passed by a Prius out on track. Real shame to hear that the timing not lining up on the production of the 5th gen Prius robbed us of the continuation of Priuses? Prii? in superGT but neat to know they still race a hybrid even if it isn't a Prius
It's worth noting that in 2016, the #30 Prius ran at Thailand without its hybrid system.
Love the CR-Z getting attention in this video. Very funny production car, would love any sort of video on it!
i wish this toyota prius were in racing games, i think they would had been even more popular if they were in racing games
Working at an auto auction, I rarely see a Prius below 250k miles that has major problems
really love you research on such a hard to find topics, would love a video on modern gt500 cars and how are they developed to reach similar lap times to current le mans hyperclass, its a shame no current racing game has full roster of japan gt championship
1:50 Wait that's a CR-Z on steroids 😂
The latest generation is honestly quite the looker. I want Toyota to make a GR version of it.
Thanks for the video, really glad I found this channel.
In Ukraine Prius is most known as police car, so we can see this cars patrolling every day. But video vibe has made me think of Prius like race car, not police one:)
Really love your motorsport history videos, keep it up ROFL!
As a CR-Z owner, I really appreciate the incidental coverage of the CR-Z GT. Thanks.
23:11 only in this series a Prius defends against a Hatsune Miku Mercedes
YAKUZA 3 FLY DETECTED
Yessss I requested this video months ago! Hopefully the CRZ is in here too...!
I don't know how interested you'd be in making a video on it, but in all of these SuperGT videos I've always found the presence of the Hatsune Miku/Goodsmile team incredibly distracting and funny and I'd love to know just how it came about and what their whole deal is and how they tend to place.
Love this channel. a 40 min documentary flies by.
0:25 has everyone forgotten the Fiat Multipla?
21:38 What happened to that Mercedes in back? Lmao
Looking for this comment cuz bro went flying into that wall
35:22 so this is the Lexus VGT done for real, the Lexus LC500H both being based on the LC500. This is the same case kinda like the Mclaren VGT turned into the Solus GT and the Bugatti VGT being a Race car version of the Chiron.
Great video I enjoyed watching the Toyota Prius history in GT racing.
Here me out, a mid engined AWD Toyota Prius that combines the LFA's V10 engine with electric motors and uses the AWD system from the Toyota GR Corolla and the active aero bits from the SRT Tomahawk.
GR Prius Prime?
*_You've created a Monster_*
@@SolaricSage116 Optimus Prime's Japanese cousin
"Here me out"
@CyanRooper
*insert Morizo-san (Akio Toyoda) rubbing his hands like Birdman, after reading this comment*
Babe wake up new rofflwaffle video just dropped
I would love to see you make a video on the Japanese makes that only appeared in GT300 like Mazda, Subaru, and Mitsubishi. Maybe even throw Vemac and ASL in there too.
Hatsune miku my beloved
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Honestly, this has a similar energy to the Volvo 850 estate racing in the BTCC in 1994. Only the Toyota was much more successful. A car which surely no-one in their right mind would think 'yeah, that'll be a successful racing car', yet some madlads decided to give it a shot anyway.
Pretty cool looking car though. It is a little odd seeing 4-door cars in a GT series like Super GT though, given that I associate them more with Touring Car series like the BTCC or Supercars (not that the latter uses 4-door cars these days).
To be honest, thank you for letting us know about the amazing Motorsport in Japan!
I got a 3rd gen prius to replace my ailing 2001 QX4. damn nice little grocery getter and commuter. has more power than you'd expect for a prius, and handles pretty well. It's actually kind of a fun car to drive. Not nearly as fun as my beat to shit integra back when it was in its prime, but for what it is, it's actually decent. It's comfortable, relatively quiet, and hillariously spins the front tires when exiting some parking lots or when it hits a patch of dirt or water when making a turn from a stop.
CR-Z GT300 was mid-engined, not front! (Nice video though, cool info)
And also like the Prius, the CR-Z GT300 also used a LMP based engine from HPD in America
Well you gotta give it to Toyota Gazoo Racing for making this car cool. 👍 At least from its WRC perspective.
the GTA3 intro just hits too hard at the start, can't take it
14:35 I don't know why but ridge racer music always makes me laugh
Hear me out. Volkswagen scirocco. They worked with audi, bmw etc. Under the series rules, we could do a funny
loved this video! thanks for posting!
28:50 Japanese Ben Keating? If someone has a better example please share I'm curious
I had a 2009 Prius for a few years, and I honestly loved that car. I regret selling it in all reality, it was just a damn good car. Who cares about how slow it was? I got 50mpg on my work commute, and I was damn pleased with it. When I first learned of the GT300 car, I fell in love. I can see myself getting a 4th gen or plug-in 5th gen as a new daily eventually; I just prefer how the Toyota hybrids drive. I replaced the 2nd gen prius with a 3rd gen Insight; it's faster, and it's not a bad car, but after driving another Toyota hybrid again I really want to go back... Either way, I love hybrids because of how exceptionally practical they are.
Anyways, Hatsune Miku car next?
Love this video was hoping you would cover this car.
My favourite Super GT car along with HSV 010.❤
Sound a bit silly but i put this up there with the Ford Supervan and Espace F1.
Amazing story and a GREAT video!
Even 2nd generation Prius is more technologically advanced than the latest Bugatti. 4th gen Prius has the engine with the second highest thermal efficiency of ANY production car bested only by Mazda's latest Sky engines... which are now used in the 5th gen Prius and Corollas. Not to mention insane compression ratios that no other car maker can dream of in a production engine let alone make one. So what you have in a Prius 3rd gen upward is, in effect, a detuned racing engine. Of course, not a match for Super GT. But given the fact that the Toyota's HSD is still the best hybrid system on the market, it only makes sense to match it with the V8. But Prius, with its engines and aerodynamic efficiency, is a PERFECT base for a race car :D
tbh the part of using the Prius as it was mentioned, felt like playing a GT playthrough challenge, which on its own it made, just like the Diablo GTR, sometimes as the last quote said, you don't need your average national sports car, even with creativity anything can join and put on a fight fully race derived machinery