In the 1990's after the collapse of Group C, the FIA then came up with newly minted GT1 category, which was meant by the organization BPR to bring in privateer entries for endurance races. However the cars brought in, from Venturini, privateer Porsche's, Marcos, and even a Morgan (!) at one point, migrated to the world famous pseudo-prototype beasts such as the CLK GTR, 911 GT1-98, and a Wide Lotus Elise GT1.
The car that Toyota came out with however, the Toyota GT-One, is the culmination of the absurdity of those regulations. Made with only one example made for homologation, and famously using the fuel tank capacity and side as dimensions for luggage space, it was quite literally skating and/or pirouetting around the spirit of the regulations. Sporting a carbon tub chassis, a 3.6 Litre Twin Turbo V8, massive drag-reducing bodywork, and a reported top speed of 230 mph, it was Toyota's latest attempt to conquer that which eluded them for so long: the 24 Hures of Le Mans.