What’s going on with the repeated terrible in car audio on your videos? It’s getting worse with each video, and it’s preventing me from watching and enjoying your otherwise excellent videos. Please fix your audio issues guys.
I do like this deliberate functional approach. For years, even specialized cars needed to be everything to everyone and cater for everyone's preferences. I really do like this ballsy move from Toyota against this dv.mb trend in the last 15 to 20 years. This is a car for drivers and for driving. If you need fancy colors, shapes and lights/materials, go and look somewhere else. If you want to drive, you're in the right place.
I've read a few comments on Matts presenting style in the past, and he has clearly taken comments on board, and his presenting style feels better than ever, so much respect to Matt for that. Now, the production team need to up their game and sort the dreadful audio and wobbly in car angles.
The reality is we do not care about super high quality production. We want videos on new cars / news etc as the news happens, not waiting weeks for a video to be filmed and professionally edited.
@v4skunk739 I'd suspect this was filmed long ago before an embargo was lifted. And I'm not alone in wanting clear audio. Many smaller, lower budget channels manage a quality better than this; Car Throttle, Autoalex, JayEm, Number 27, just to name a few. So I'm not asking for "super high production values", just simply clear audio.
Unfortunately, the many pauses mid sentence are so long and often that one forgets what the first, or second part of the sentence was. Specially with all the car noises. He should have more coherent sentences so we can understand what he is talking about. Not all the viewers have English as first language.
@@kjph7438 That is just immature. We see many different presenters and can compare them to each other. If we watch a pro footballer playing badly, we can criticize him when we have watched football for decades and seen countless players playing football, without you telling us "how about you become a footballer yourself" :)
Problem with Audi is they only make cars for rich people. Same with Mercedes and BMW. The only option still is GR yaris, eventhough the price has increased.
@@SUMOCAT86 Not sure what part of the World you are from, but even the base GR Yaris in Australia was more expensive than the Audi S1 sold here. The bigger problem was that Audi built an amazing car that punches just as hard as the GR Yaris with practically identical specifications & an engine that was deliberately under-tuned by the factory, and then didn’t bother promoting it anywhere. GR Yaris is still a great car & luckily Toyota are willing to promote and continue to develop it.
@@sunsetgarage755 I'm from Finland. To be honest I would like to exchange my GR Yaris for an Audi S3 hatchback. S3 in Finland is about 70K euros(115K AUD) and my GRY was about 52K(85500 AUD) in 2022. Audi RS models are way too expensive for me, I think they start at over 100K. The Audi S1 does not exist here anymore which is sad. The GRY also has many advantages like simple and very good AWD system, manual, no VAG problems ect. ect. The new interior is not to my liking and that's one of the reasons I was thinking I should go to Audi. I don't know why Mercedes, BMW and Audi want to retain this "premium" look and can't make exciting cars for normal folks. It's literally Mercedes, BMW or Audi if you want a RWD or AWD car. Even then, none of them have as good AWD as Toyota has. It's funny I was just configuring a car at Mercedes website, choose the most basic shitty car ever and it starts at 40K(65K AUD) by the time your done it's 65K(107K AUD) and there it is... your 1.6 liter diesel Merc with 115hp. Also Mercedes 4 matic doesn't really work here at all, the tcs system is downright dangerous. Amg models might be different but normal 4Matic -Never again. Actually my C55 AMG was also really bad, open diff and shitty slow automatic. Well that's a older car but still. It's pretty hard to get excited about new cars, maybe thats intentional.
@@markgt894 I do find manual driving more enjoyable, which is why I own a manual GT86. However, my interest in the automatic gearbox stems from its potential inclusion in the GR Corolla. This feature alone makes me consider swapping my current daily car, the MK7 R, for the GR Corolla. This inclination is further strengthened by the fact that the MK8 Golf now boasts an interior comparable to that of a Corolla. 😄
I agree. It's tiring seeing the same old big digital screen slapped on the middle of the dashboard. This redesign retains that Toyota quirkiness with a touch of coziness.
@@Alby911Honestly this feels nothing like 'Toyota' and I think it's great. It does feel like Toyota from the 1990's and prior, but def not in the last 20 years. It looks great!
You'd think an outfit like Autocar would be able to get the audio right. I can watch 100 different independent youtubers and hear absolutely perfect audio quality and the big magazine video is almost unlistenable.
it is unfortunate but also, it is a high chance that it was a malfunction of pairing or audio set-up, discovered only after the filming was done, thus, nothing do be done at that point.
I like Autocar's review style and their reviewers, been reading it for decades, but you do sense they are stuck in the dark ages in terms of technology. You've got RU-vidrs knocking out high quality videos, with better sound. Come on guys, get with the times.
@@nazarpredatorakthis isn't a daily driver... it is a rally car for the road. What you actually need is an S3, like the guy above so kindly suggested. Interior materials, haptic studies, design, brand... go for it and forget this car, it isn't for your type. 😉
Thinking the same. A remap and Lichfield suspension seem best route for my 21 GR with 7000 miles. Nothing broken and I did mirror mod abd am used to the seating. I would expect a price hike as Toyota seek to claw initial costs back.
I really like the dash redesign, the much better integrated infotainment screen (ones that protrude from the dash are not a tradeoff I don't care for), the bezel from the center stack - which is wonderfully angled to the driver - that goes around the gear lever, and the digital instrument cluster (analogue is fine if it follows the format of large central speedometer or tachometer, with smaller gauges at the sides). The seat being lower and the rear view mirror are how it should have been from the start. If the GR Corolla gets these changes it would certainly make it closer to the Civic Type R which has certainly had a better interior in terms of design/layout.
Great improvements Toyota! Thank you so much for keeping on developing this GR Yaris! I've had my GR-Y for 2yrs now and love it. I would certainly get this updated version. (I've just emailed my local dealer to express my interest.) I have to say though I wish you used the more modern/luxurious dash of Lexus LBX instead of this '80s looking dash in this updated GR Yaris.
Autocar must be run by dinosaurs. How is it 2024 and they still can't produce a video with decent sound and video?! Guys there are teenagers knocking out high quality stuff, you really need to stop denying the present, grow up and get with the times. It's not acceptable for one of the oldest car mags in the world to be producing videos with such terrible sound that I'm turning the video off half way through. I'm not some braindead TikToker with the attention span of a gnat either - I've been reading Autocar for decades. Come on.
I'm not sure about the comments saying the interior looking incredible. It looks like it was designed in a rush. Functional yes, but for 35 grand I'd want something a little more pleasing on the eyes. The shut lines on the interior look a bit cheap on the cabin close ups too... But, do I want one, hell yes!
True. Toyota sold a lie.. only 25k to be built? And so far 32k made and more to come? I assume they were losing money and have to try make some back. Id still keep my earlier GR. Love its looks. Love the dash. Love what it stood for was 3 years ago.. That said i am looking at another nice car to move on to in the future. It wont be the updated GR..pointless in my view if im never going to track my GR
@@eugenux nonono it's not about race use. Even if just driven normally "used" GR Yaris turned off AWD drive after some 15 min. of "dynamic driving". This car is pretty much 1/2 the fun as soon as the whole power has to go onto the front wheels.
Am I the only one who doesn't like the new dash redesign? It's cheap gray plastic. I'm not a fan of screens that protrude from the dashboard but in this case this looks outdated and cheap. I loved the cabin of the previous generation Yaris, even the analog cluster was good looking!
when I bought the Ford Focus RS mk1 215hp FWD same weight at this Yaris we all dreamt of having an AWD version..it took 20 years but Toyota gave us that people who are used to nowadays heavy cars can't understand what 200Kgs less do to handling and braking, Subaru Mitsubishi Ford all gave up while Honda stuck to their FWD doing not much except increase the price thank you Toyota for allowing young drivers to buy "their" wrc for the road car
Really wanted to know what the auto box was like as I currently have a GR Yaris and was wondering if it’s worth changing. Will have to watch another review for that info. 🤨🤷♂️. Oh and sort your audio out.
Same! I have a 23 brz manual, I really want to know how does the auto gr yaris shifts, Toyota says it's quicker than the supra(BMW 8sp), but I would like to know how well does it execute kick down I like the 6sp transmission on the madza because it just knows when to kick down and make the shift
It's a torque converter. I would say that it will be quite smooth for day to day driving. If you are coming from PDK or other dual clutch, it will feel slightly slower. Torque converter is still fast but it is no dual clutch. If it had been a DCT, I bet a lot more people would be jumping at it.
@@grahamhaynes7658 I think its great with a short shifter kit on though. I had a Golf R with DCT and I did 60k miles in it but I never really liked it. Just never intuitive enough.
No start-stop button in the new version and no mention of the feature at all in the manual. Anyone who can say with certainty whether this means there's no auto stop & start OR there is but can't be disabled?
Been said to death and still not enough, the audio is ATROCIOUS. Please never upload another vid with audio this horrible. We’ll wait an extra day or two for a properly edited video rather than this.
Dear Autocar, your pauses mid sentence are so long and often that one forgets what the first, or second part of the sentence was. Specially with all the car noises. Please have coherent sentences so we can understand what you are talking about. Not all your viewers have English as first language. Thank you.
Come on guys.... You can have better microphones when inside the car. The sound on this video was really bad, but the problem is not just from this video, it has been bad for several ones.
Shame they replaced the analogue dials for screens, the high contrast of screens is migraine inducing for people with astigmatisms when night driving vs softer lit dials. Other than that the dash looks better than gen1.
Awesome car, but with all due respect this is a terrible review. Apart from the terrible sound, the reviewer somehow makes one of the most exciting cars sound boring.
What was the Vios (not sold in the UK) was car of the year several times where it was on sale. The latest model has become a Yaris saloon. Toyota make good cars there is no doubt.
Once we have Lancer Evolution. Now we have GR Yaris Evolution🤘 Considering that Tommi Mäkinen was one of the guys who was in Toyota developing team for this car Im not surprised.
That sound was so bad, made it very hard to watch. Had to mute the sound and turn on the subtitles to make it watchable. Other than that, great to see Toyota keeping the updates coming for this cracking little car, if you can justify the price that this will cost now. It would make a great buy in 3/4 years time when they will hopefully depreciate a bit to make them somewhat affordable for more people.
Oh joy, an autotragic option. Can't wait for Toyota to say "Well we don't wanna make manuals because people only buy the auto" or that stealerships won't order manuals and will mark them up as enthusiasts will want the 6 speed. This naturally is speaking for the GR Corolla, as I'm sure most of these same changes will be coming down the pipeline to the US market.
