This is a V6 hybrid concept car, but it’s about as far from a Camry as Toyota can get.

The WEC-racer-based GR Super Sport Concept features a 2.4-litre twin-turbo V6 and electric motors to bring its total power to 735kW.

The GR Super Sport incorporates drivetrain tech developed for Toyota Gazoo Racing’s WEC entrant, the TS050 Hybrid.

Gazoo Racing Company president Shigeki Tomoyama says that basing concepts on race cars is a better – and more fun – way to progress development in its vehicles than basing them on road cars.

“Rather than developing production cars into sports cars, we aim to work out how to incorporate the know-how developed through races and rallies into production cars,” Tomoyama says.

“Even as electrification and IT technologies accelerate, the availability of different types of cars, including polar opposite models like the GR Super Sport Concept and the e-Palette Concept, means that they will never become a commodity.

Toyota has only revealed a few images of the car so far, but it will be shown in the metal at the Tokyo Auto Salon.