I was in the local Toyota dealer today ordering some new bolts and other fasteners for my ST205 refurbish. While I was waiting for the parts dept. to go through the extensive list on the EPC printout I got talking to another customer who was in for some Yaris parts. Turned out he worked for Toyota GB in their Press Office and was due to head over to TMG Cologne next week for an update on their future plans. He volunteered the information that the chances of Toyota building a WRC spec rally car for the new regs (due 2017?) were zero. They are concentrating on the GT86-CS3 customer rally car which requires that 2,500 be built so it can be homologated for FIA R3 competition. I asked him why Toyota didn't use their World Endurance Championship win more in marketing. He said the whole WEC effort is running on a fraction of the Audi and Porsche budget and funds were limited. He said now the head of Toyota is a motorsport enthusiast they have more sporting models coming through the pipeline. Watch this space
P.S. Apparently he was driving the very first Lexus imported into the UK in 1989 and now owned by Toyota GB.