Lead tarmac car — the Targa NZ class winner
Toshi
The sharp-eyed Hawkeye evolution of the GD platform, and the car that made us 2025 Targa New Zealand Production 4WD champions.
Spec sheet
- Chassis
- GD-generation WRX STI, 2006–2007 "Hawkeye" facelift
- Engine
- EJ257 2.5-litre turbocharged boxer four
- Driveline
- Symmetrical all-wheel drive
- Honours
- 2025 Targa New Zealand — Production 4WD class champions, 6th outright
- Duties
- Sealed-surface specialist for closed-road tarmac stages
Targa-proven
Toshi is the car we lean on when the stages are fast and the tarmac is unforgiving. At Targa New Zealand 2025 it carried us to the Production 4WD class win and 6th outright over five days of closed-road stages — the result that proved the whole privateer operation stacks up under pressure.
The 2025 season →The commonality play
Running two closely related GD chassis is a deliberate privateer strategy: shared knowledge, shared spares, and a proven fallback if something lets go on an event. Every bolt on this car has been touched by the crew that drives it.
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