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Opinion

The brilliance of the Toyota GR Yaris and why ‘hooning’ is allowed

What I suspected was the case with the Toyota GR Yaris has turned out to be about proper. 

“It’s no wonder I’ve had correspondence from people with big car collections who drive a Yaris every day,” I wrote in 2021 after spending a number of months residing with one and discovering that it supplied a driving expertise so particular that it could please individuals who might afford reasonably greater than the £29,995 the new hatchback value.

And final month, Toyota offered me with some knowledge backing that up: 48% of GR Yaris homeowners personal one as an ‘additional car’, when the category common is just round 10%.

Many have a GR Yaris “next to a supercar”, mentioned a delighted chief engineer Naohiko Saito. “This is something we’ve never seen before.”

Given this, and that Toyota has bought 100% extra GRs than it had anticipated to by now, it’s little surprise that it has felt emboldened not solely to place the automobile by a facelift however to counsel that it’s going to make it a everlasting fixture within the vary – for so long as it’s nonetheless capable of promote it.

“This isn’t the end of development,” mentioned Saito on the occasion the place I drove a pre-production instance of the facelifted automobile.

“Smells and noise are something we don’t want to give up. We want to make sports cars for the next 100 years.”

By the tip of this decade, although, 80% of recent vehicles bought within the UK should be zero-emissions, and whereas it has solely a 1.6-litre engine, the GR Yaris isn’t a type of.

Still, I reside in hope of a protracted existence – and that Toyota resists the temptation to hike the value an excessive amount of, now that it is aware of the wherewithal of many patrons.

More excitable quotes, though much less glad ones, come from ABC News in Canberra. The Street Machine Summernats automobile occasion has come to city, and with it has come “moron tourism”, in keeping with Mark Richardson, Australian Capital Territory’s performing inspector of street policing.

Australia has some strict anti-hooning legal guidelines – hooning being the phrase for “any antisocial behaviour in a motor car”, in keeping with the authorities – however they don’t dissuade semi-organised burnout occasions.

Motorsport

2024 Jaguar F-Type ZP Edition Marks End Of Company’s ICE Sport Cars

The 2024 Jaguar F-Type ZP Edition will be the last Jaguar sports car with an internal combustion engine. This limited-production model comes in a coupe or convertible body style and features an enhanced appearance package by Jaguar’s SV Bespoke group. The exterior is available in two color options: Oulton Blue Gloss or Crystal Grey Gloss. The blue option comes with a red and black two-tone interior, while the gray option has a blue and black interior, both of which have never been offered on the F-Type before.

The F-Type ZP Edition showcases hand-painted roundels on the doors and white grille surrounds, paying homage to the E-Type race cars from the 1960s. It rides on 20-inch wheels with black inserts and includes black interior trim. Special badging is placed on the fenders, door sills, and dashboard, along with a unique plaque indicating the production number out of the 150 units being built.

Under the hood, the F-Type ZP Edition shares the same mechanicals as the F-Type R in P575 trim. This means it is equipped with a supercharged 5.0-liter V8 engine producing 575 horsepower and 516 pound-feet of torque. Power is sent to all four wheels through an eight-speed automatic transmission, allowing the F-Type R to accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 3.5 seconds.

Motorsport

Alleged Thief Surrenders to Police in Embarrassing Incident After High-Speed Car Chase

An alleged criminal in Los Angeles experienced an embarrassing turn of events following a high-speed chase in the city. As the suspect attempted to exit the vehicle through the driver’s window, he became stuck in traffic and his pants fell around his knees. To free himself, he had to perform a somersault out of the stopped sedan.

According to KTLA, the chase began at around 3:00 PM local time and the driver started exiting the vehicle at approximately 4:15 PM. It took law enforcement several more minutes to apprehend the suspect.

Reports from Fox 11 suggest that the driver was suspected of armed robbery and had allegedly stolen the car involved in the chase. The vehicle appeared to be a 2013-2016 Mercedes-Benz E-Class, based on its general appearance and taillight design. Additionally, the driver had a colorful flag or banner protruding from the sunroof.

During the pursuit, the driver allegedly threw a firearm out of the vehicle. According to Fox 11, the police also confiscated a second gun.

As the chase neared its end, the driver reached congested Crenshaw Boulevard. In an attempt to bypass the traffic, the alleged criminal drove onto the sidewalk. However, due to the heavy traffic, a person in a pickup truck successfully blocked the Mercedes, enabling the police to apprehend the suspect.

Here, the Mercedes driver encountered his embarrassing moment. Instead of opening the driver’s door and exiting the vehicle, he tried to climb out of the window, which was significantly smaller. In the process, his pants got caught, causing them to fall to his knees as he crawled out of the car, as seen in the video.

There were no reported injuries during the chase. In some videos, it appears that the driver collided with a silver Nissan, while a bystander driving a silver truck rammed into the alleged stolen Mercedes, forcing the vehicle to stop.