Last January, around the time of the Tokyo Auto Salon, Toyota Gazoo Racing related a corporate desire to “commercialize motorsports cars” rather than relegating them to concepts in a press release.

Like most proclamations made in PR blasts, it was easy to read with a healthy, depressing dose of skepticism, especially after Toyota appeared to quietly shut down development of the GR Super Sport road car in 2021.

Thankfully, this case might be one of the outliers, because patent images of a wingless version of the GR GT3 show car have been discovered on the European Union Intellectual Property Office website by Carscoops.