Toyota and Peugeot announce plans for hybrid race cars
Toyota's GT-One was sponsored by a cigarette company and indeed, it may have been the first race car to wear a barcode instead of Marlboro's name.
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Toyota is the world's largest car maker and it is going sports car racing. Next year it intends to enter the hotly-contested LMP1 class with a car powered by a petrol hybrid power-train. Toyota's intention to promote its hybrid engine prowess appears certain to invigorate Le Mans racing as Peugeot already has a hybrid diesel under testing for next year and Porsche is rumored to have a hybrid race car ready by 2013.
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