Toyota 88C-V

The Toyota 88C-V was a Group C sports prototype that Toyota entered in 1988, the successor to the 88C and the predecessor to the 89C-V. Like other Toyota-powered sports prototypes of its era it was designed and built by Dome. It was a new design developed around Toyota's R32V 3.2 litre turbocharged V8 engine, which replaced the turbocharged inline-4 of the 88C. The car has a quoted top speed of 375 km/h, accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 3.8 seconds, produces 809 CV at 8000 rpm and weighs 850 kg. It competed in the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship, making its debut at the 1988 Fuji 500 miles with a single car that failed to finish because of mechanical problems. Two cars then ran in the Japanese round of the World Sports-Prototype Championship at the 1000 km of Fuji, finishing as the last classified cars.