Xcar tours Toyota's Secret Racing Collection

F1, Le Mans, rally, hillclimbs… Toyota Motorsport GmbH has done it all, and keeps almost all of its machinery in a hall underneath one of its wind tunnels. Xcar swung through Cologne, Germany, to check it all out, and thankfully didn’t forget to bring a video camera or two along.

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Toyota Motorsport GmbH has dabbled in just about every form of motorsport you could think of. The Japanese automaker’s European racing division has made its mark in Formula One, Le Mans, rally, hillclimbing… it’s even made some road-going prototypes. And Xcar managed to gain access to its inner sanctum.

As a result of all its various racing activities, the German facility has an enviable collection of racing machinery, housed in a hall underneath one of its wind tunnels. We couldn’t even begin to wrap our heads around the sheer amount of money that’s been poured into all these racers and prototypes, or how much they’d be worth on the open market today if Toyota ever had to liquidate its unsurpassed collection. But you can scope them all out in the artfully shot and expertly narrated video above.