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New Toyota GR Yaris priced from £44,250 within the UK

Pricing and specification particulars for the up to date Toyota GR Yaris have been revealed, with the high-performance sizzling hatch growing in price by greater than £12,000. 

Prices for the Volkswagen Golf GTI rival begin at £44,250 within the UK, with the Sébastien Ogier Edition and Kalle Rovanperä Edition specials coming in at £60,000. 

The GR Yaris as soon as once more includes a 1.6-litre turbocharged three-cylinder petrol engine, however energy has elevated from 258bhp to 276bhp and torque from 266lb ft to 287lb ft. 

The automobile has additionally gained the choice of an eight-speed computerized gearbox alongside the usual six-speed guide.

Beneath the steel, the brand new GR Yaris will get modified suspension for improved dealing with, with revised spring charges and a stronger entrance shock absorber. 

Inside, the recent hatch additionally has adjustments to the driving place and cockpit, with a brand new infotainment system. Toyota says it affords a “more authentic sports car feel”. 

The GR Yaris will probably be bought within the UK in restricted portions, however Toyota hasn’t confirmed any actual numbers. 

A spokesperson confirmed to Autocar that pricing wasn’t linked to demand however was “representative” of the automobile’s positioning, with elements equivalent to inflation and new know-how contributing to the rise. 

Rivals such because the Honda Civic Type R, at £48,060, have additionally jumped in value for his or her newest variants.

Motorsport

Toyota’s New Special Edition GR Yaris Has a Donut Mode

Almost a 12 months to the day, Toyota announced two GR Yaris “concepts” at the 2023 Tokyo Auto Salon. They had been the GR Yaris RZ Kalle Rovanpera and Sebastien Ogier Editions, carrying particular look packages and tuned with bespoke drive modes befitting the WRC drivers for which they’re named. The ideas got here with a promise that, finally, people may purchase one. That time has lastly come.

In the 12 months that is handed for the reason that debut, the GR Yaris received a big facelift. So the brand new fashions look a bit totally different. The core parts are the identical although; Ogier’s automotive is completed in a darkish shade referred to as Matte Stealth Gray, which helps intensify the blue brake calipers behind these sharp 18-inch BBS wheels. A particular rally spoiler created from carbon fiber strengthened plastic adorns the hatch, and you will find a couple of decals honoring Ogier’s WRC success and his residence nation of France. Rovanpera’s automotive is brighter, carrying a model of his three-tone racing livery with particular logos and WRC accolades. The rear wing is equivalent to that on the GRMN Yaris.

Moving inside, each automobiles have particular badging and distinction stitching distinctive to every version. You’ll additionally discover unique full TFT gauge shows that present particular drive modes for every automotive. But the modes are far totally different than the gravel and monitor settings you’d discover on a traditional GR Yaris.

The Ogier Edition beneficial properties Morzio Mode, which Toyota describes as “restraint (direct connection) maximally applied to the front and rear wheels during acceleration and relaxed only as necessary during braking.” You additionally get SEB Mode, named for Ogier and tuned to ship extra energy to the rear wheels versus the entrance.

As for the colourful Rovanpera Edition, it beneficial properties a colorfully named Donut Mode which ensures “slide control during drifting.” That feels like a drift mode to us. There’s additionally the KALLE Mode, which includes a totally different rear differential for “aggressively swinging out the vehicle’s rear when entering a curve and pulling forward the vehicle’s front using the accelerator.” That additionally feels like a drift mode to us, however one with a bit extra emphasis on getting very sideways.


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Toyota Will Sell You A GR Yaris Lookalike In Japan With 118 HP And A CVT

With all the passion across the 2024 GR Yaris, it is easy to overlook the exceptionally boring base model. Despite carrying the “RS” suffix that might counsel one thing thrilling, the entry-level mannequin is a sizzling hatch in identify solely. Toyota has but to replace the cheaper RS with the odd dashboard of the “real” GR Yaris however the automobile stays on sale in Japan.

Although it might look quite a bit just like the full-fat mannequin, the GR Yaris RS is obtainable strictly with front-wheel drive. It will get worse since Toyota sells this taste solely with a constantly variable transmission (CVT). As a reminder, the respectable sizzling hatch is all-wheel drive with both a six-speed handbook or the newly gained eight-speed automated.


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The New Toyota GR Yaris Automatic Is Faster Than The Old Manual

Toyota revealed the updated GR Yaris a couple of days in the past. The automaker elevated its energy, revamped its styling, and added the choice of an computerized transmission for the primary time. That seems like an exquisite recipe for enjoyable, and there’s already a brand new video highlighting how a lot faster the brand new one is to its predecessor.

The GR Yaris nonetheless packs Toyota’s 1.6-liter turbocharged three-cylinder engine, besides now it makes 300 horsepower and 295 pound-feet of torque. That’s up from 268 hp and 272 lb-ft, and the facility improve is apparent.


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Here’s What Toyota Changed On The New GR Yaris

The refreshed 2024 Toyota GR Yaris simply debuted this week. It has important upgrades within the type of extra energy, extra torque, and a newly out there eight-speed computerized – which you can read about here. But how does the brand new 2024 mannequin evaluate to the earlier GR Yaris? We put the 2 automobiles side-by-side to see all of the adjustments Toyota made to its tiniest scorching hatchback. 

Front

2024 Toyota GR Yaris

2020 Toyota GR Yaris

The GR Yaris already had an aggressive face, however this 2024 mannequin appears even meaner. The overhauled entrance fascia has greater vent openings at every nook and visual radiators tucked behind them. New GR-Four branding is outstanding within the heart of the grille, and the headlights are barely totally different in comparison with final yr.

Rear

2024 Toyota GR Yaris

2020 Toyota GR Yaris

The tweaks to the again finish aren’t as important because the adjustments in entrance. There’s an illuminated gentle bar operating between the taillights, whereas designers re-located the third brake gentle between the primary lamps fairly than having it close to the roof. This was reportedly to make it simpler for house owners to suit a bigger rear spoiler to the roof, in line with Autocar. The fascia provides an oblong mesh part between the tailpipes that partially exposes the muffler.

Side

2024 Toyota GR Yaris

2020 Toyota GR Yaris

As with most automobile refreshes, the flanks obtain the fewest revisions. Toyota is providing some totally different wheels, however the GR Yaris’ silhouette does not change.

Interior

2024 Toyota GR Yaris

2020 Toyota GR Yaris

The GR Yaris refresh features a important inside overhaul. A brand new heart console provides a silver encompass for the infotainment display fairly than having it stick up from the dashboard. The HVAC vents are nonetheless beneath the show however now have a boxy form fairly than being ovals.

Instruments

2024 Toyota GR Yaris

2020 Toyota GR Yaris

The devices additionally obtain important adjustments. The 2024 GR Yaris adopts a digital instrument cluster to switch the earlier analog gauges. The design combines a speedometer, tachometer, and kit show into one portion and different information flanking it.

Under The Hood

2024 Toyota GR Yaris

2020 Toyota GR Yaris

The 2024 GR Yaris nonetheless makes use of a turbocharged 1.6-liter three-cylinder engine. Aesthetically, the underhood look does not change a lot, aside from alterations to the purple trim. What you possibly can’t see is that the engine now makes 300 horsepower and 295 pound-feet of torque, versus 268 hp and 273 lb-ft beforehand. The adjustments embody totally different exhaust valves, lighter pistons, and elevated direct injection stress.

  2024 GR Yaris 2020 GR Yaris
Output 300 HP / 295 LB-FT 268 HP / 273 LB-FT
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Lexus Put The Toyota GR Corolla Engine In This Tiny Crossover

At lengthy final, Lexus has a automobile with the punchy three-cylinder engine from the GR Yaris and GR Corolla. However, this is not one other sizzling hatch. Launched final yr, the LBX is a premium variant of the Yaris Cross, and on the 2024 Tokyo Auto Salon, Toyota’s luxurious division showcased an idea powered by the G16E-GTS unit.

Smaller than the UX obtainable within the United States, the LBX now packs a mighty 300-horsepower punch from its turbocharged 1.6-liter engine. The inline-three unit produces 295 pound-feet of torque, completely matching the GR Corolla Morizo Edition. Interestingly, the efficiency crossover additionally bears the Morizo moniker, the nickname of Toyota’s chairman, Akio Toyoda.


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Toyota GR Yaris now everlasting fixture in line-up

Toyota says that the sudden success of the GR Yaris has led it to make the new hatchback a everlasting fixture in its line-up.

Speaking at an occasion the place we drove a prototype of the new facelifted GR Yaris, its chief engineer Naohiko Saito mentioned: “This is not the top of improvement.” 

The GR Yaris ‘Evo’ has gained upgrades to its high-performance sturdiness, extra energy, a stiffer physique, revised suspension and the choice of an eight-speed computerized gearbox alongside the six-speed handbook. 

Toyota has offered greater than 32,000 GR Yarises – way over it anticipated. It wanted to make 25,000 automobiles with the distinctive three-door bodyshell (the common Yaris is five-door solely) to homologate the form for its World Rally Championship competitor.

Toyota was so unsure that the GR Yaris would hit the goal that it additionally created a less expensive variant for Japan known as the RS, that includes the regular Yaris’s 1.5-litre hybrid powertrain and not one of the GR’s specialist {hardware}.

It has offered greater than 3000 however in the end hasn’t wanted the RS to make up the numbers.

Toyota has additionally been bowled over by the wealth of the consumers who’re shopping for GR Yarises. “This is something we’ve never seen before,” Saito mentioned. 

Some 48% of GR Yarises are purchased as ‘additional cars’ to a buyer’s storage, whereas the category common for hot hatches tends to be round 10%, with the overwhelming majority purchased because the proprietor’s solely automobile.

The GR Yaris is now monitoring “100% above plan”, in keeping with Saito, therefore the facelift could possibly be justified – though he stresses that neither the facelift nor the venture within the first place would have been attainable and not using a automotive fanatic like Akio Toyoda (who stepped down as president and CEO to become chairman last year) on the head of the corporate.

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2024 GR Yaris Gets An Automatic, More Power, And A Sad Looking Interior

It’s official: The 2024 Toyota GR Yaris is getting an optionally available computerized transmission. As one of many final manual-only automobiles in the marketplace (together with the GR Corolla, Honda Civic Type R, Civic Si, and some others), the GR Yaris was half an unique membership. But now it is becoming a member of the plenty with a brand new torque-converted eight-speed computerized transmission.

Toyota revealed the updated GR Yaris and the brand new gearbox at Tokyo Auto Salon, calling it Direct Automatic Transmission. It’s primarily based on a torque-converter auto that is been optimized for quicker shifts and has particularly tuned shift logic for monitor use. It’s not a dual-clutch gearbox like different efficiency automobiles, but when the ZF 8HP automatic is any proof, regular automatics could be lots good too. Astute racing followers will keep in mind that Toyota examined this gearbox within the Super Taikyu endurance sequence, in addition to the Japan Rally Championship.

Along with the brand new gearbox, the GR Yaris is getting a brace of enhancements in all areas. A “Circuit” specification can be out there with an improved cooling package deal, particularly an additional radiator, intercooler spray, and a redesigned consumption system. Automatic-equipped automobiles may even get a devoted cooler for the gearbox. Both coolers could be seen within the facet intakes. Astoundingly, the automated solely provides round 40 kilos to the automobile.

General physique rigidity and suspension enhancements help an influence enhance from the turbocharged three-cylinder engine. And it’s not only a new tune, however a “strengthened” valvetrain, a brand new undisclosed exhaust valve materials, a rise in direct injection strain, a brand new consumption air strain sensor, and redesigned light-weight pistons.

Finally, the GR Yaris will get a facelift in and out. A extra aggressively-style entrance bumper accommodates the additional coolers, whereas the inside has been completely redesigned to be extra driver-centric. Frankly, the sprint is a bit odd and dated, particularly in comparison with earlier than. At least the brand new gauge cluster is the 12.3-inch show from the GR Corolla.

OK, so, this automobile received’t make it stateside. But the essential takeaway is that these elements might make it to the GR Corolla in a future mannequin 12 months, together with the automated transmission. While the 2024 GR Corolla has already been introduced with its adjustments, there’s some proof to counsel the 2025 GR Corolla can be a giant step ahead.

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This 530-HP Toyota GR Yaris Has $164,000 In Mods

With the GR Yaris, Toyota has confirmed that good issues do actually are available small packages. The pocket rocket’s turbocharged three-cylinder engine is sweet for 268 horsepower. You’ll discover a variation of the 1.6-liter mill contained in the GR Corolla the place it pumps out a whopping 300 hp. Should you need much more, tuners will fortunately oblige.

This supermini makes use of a closely modified configuration of the “G16E-GTS” engine that produces 530 hp on pump fuel. The three-pot may take ethanol, however at this stage, it is “only” making 457 hp on the wheels. The tuner struggled to extract extra energy with E85 due to the small wastegate. The latter is a valve that controls the circulate of exhaust fuel to the turbine of a turbocharger. The proprietor reckons it ought to be potential to extract someplace within the area of 660 hp with extra modifications.

The totally cast engine has been out and in of the automobile 5 instances within the proprietor’s quest for extra energy from the tiny three-cylinder unit. The GR Yaris was constructed by SRD Tuning and makes use of a Plusar turbocharger, however as with most mission vehicles, the construct is rarely actually completed. The proprietor needs to put in a sequential gearbox, a customized suspension, and produce the wheels additional out to enhance the widebody. He has already spent a colossal £130,000 to carry the new hatch the place it’s now. That’s about $164,000 at present trade charges.

Mind you, this is not even probably the most highly effective GR Yaris on the planet. Powertune Australia tuned that three-cylinder engine final yr to a daft 741 hp. It’s a superb factor the rally-bred machine has all-wheel drive from the manufacturing facility. Rumor has it Toyota intends to present the GR Yaris 300 hp out of the field with an upcoming replace. The 2024 mannequin yr may additionally carry a newly developed eight-speed computerized transmission.

As to which automaker holds the title for probably the most highly effective three-cylinder engine, Koenigsegg’s twin-turbo “Tiny Friendly Giant” makes 600 hp within the Gemera.

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This GR Yaris Has The Powertrain From A Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution

The Toyota GR Yaris is a improbable out-of-the-box rally machine, outfitted with a high-output turbocharged engine and a trick all-wheel drive system. But if the inventory Toyota elements simply aren’t as much as the duty, the oldsters at Dytko Sport have simply the conversion: A full Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution drivetrain swap.

The Poland-based velocity store makes a speciality of swapping Evo powertrains into vehicles, and its newest creation is particularly spectacular. According to Engine Swap Depot, this pink widebody Yaris “Proto” was constructed for rally driver Kuba Greguła, and options a wholly new drivetrain based mostly on the structure from a Lancer Evolution.

Under the hood sits a 4B11T turbocharged inline-four from an Evolution X, paired to a six-speed sequential transmission constructed by Drenth. It sends energy to Drenth differentials on both axle. There’s no phrase on energy output, although it is secure to estimate this Yaris is making a bit greater than the 268 hp it is rated for from the manufacturing unit.

Inside you will discover a full FIA-spec roll cage, OMP racing seats, harnesses, carbon fiber door panels, and a hearth suppression system. There’s additionally an extremely cool-looking shifter mechanism, a digital gauge cluster display screen, and a brand new steering wheel. Despite all the additions, Dytko Sport has retained a lot of the inside trim, too.

While it is not clear what Greguła plans to do with this Evo-powered Yaris, Dytko Sport’s Facebook web page is roofed in movies of its vehicles competing in varied types of motorsport occasions all through Europe. Something tells us this automotive will stay a really thrilling life.