The Toyota Prius GT300 race car debuted at the 2012 Tokyo Auto Salon, looking ready to compete in the 2012 Super GT season. But things didn’t go as planned when the team took to testing its race ...

There, a privateer team actually entered a racing Prius in the GT300 class. The car was heavily reworked, with a Toyota-sourced 3.4-liter engine driving the rear wheels, but it was still a hybrid ...