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Old 06-29-2012, 10:35 AM
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The Toyota car is quite different from the Peugeot's. They did develop it very quickly having only started the project last September. They did get a car together impressively quick especially when you consider they had to find a way to take their Hybrid Synergy drive train, make it twice as powerful, half the weight, and then find a super capacitor that would do what they needed. They definitely had the speed as they were about 5 mph faster at the top end than the Audi's. There were early hints that their car wasn't going to last though as during testing at SPA they had engine failures. If they can get reliability figured out over the next year the 2013 24 Hours of LeMans is going to be pretty interesting.
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