INTRODUCTION
Toyota’s first attempt at making a competitive Group B car for the World Rally Championship (WRC) came in 1983 with the Toyota Celica TwinCam Turbo. The car used a traditional rear-wheel drive design closely derived from a production model and, although it excelled at endurance events such as the Safari Rally, it proved not to be competitive in special stage rallies against its purpose-built mid-engine or four-wheel drive competitors. If Toyota would have any hope of reaching the top echelons in the WRC then the solution would obviously demand a radical and very expensive new concept. In 1985, the announcement of the upcoming Group S class with its mere 10 units to be produced convinced Toyota to join ‘the madness’. They entrusted the project, which was code-named ‘222D’, to Toyota Team Europe (TTE). To learn much more about the history of Group S, please CLICK HERE!
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