Only today, I caught a fleeting glimpse of one of these as it shot past me going the opposite directly, sadly - but, man... does it stand out...! It really did look awesome...!!
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I have missed: - the Lancia Stratos (too young) - the Audi Quattro (see above) - the Lancia Delta HF Integrale (no money) - the Mitsubishi Evo 6 (for some reason) I now will get my GR Yaris. What do you think? - I'm happy as a child...
My pic? The Evo IX, but TBH the Yaris has got more modern features and is more practical - turning circle of the Evo gets old pretty quick. Throw in fuel economy into the GR Yaris way to boot.
I live in Wales too and almost bought an S3 which would be way more practical for me but this looks far more special. Just got to wait another 8 months for mine 😅
Have had mine for a week (circuit pack) and it’s simply brilliant. You don’t buy one of these for the lush interior or space, but the pure driving pleasure. Not to upset any Honda fans, but I would never consider the Civic Type R as the looks just aren’t for me. A Macan GTS is my family car, the Yaris GR is my selfish toy for the weekends and B roads and gives me a smile from ear to ear. Good on you Toyota. A petrol head from New Zealand
One reviewer complained regarding it being difficult to access the footrest. Has this been a problem for you? (I would like a GR Yaris but have big feet).
I see a lot of people complaining in the comments; no automatic, price, etc. The GR Yaris is made for very specific buyers and drivers. If you're not one of them, stop complaining and fark off. Don't compare this to a normal Yaris as everything is bespoke from ground up. Peace!
It's a stupid car as it's not practical, has no rear doors and high emissions as well as an ancient transmission system and you can't even take it upto full speed unless if you have a aircraft runway or private land. It's just the most ridiculous car after the worst global pandemic and the worst financial and environmental crisis of all time.
"No automatic" "no rear doors" If you want something similar to this, there is _Mazda 3 Turbo_ that has you covered on those 2 things. Now don't tell me that it has less power than the GR Yaris cause it's only slightly less powerful.
@@yuanwho Yes, I use it every day to go to work and back. The ride is a bit harsh but then it's to be expected given the sort of car it is. My wife and I did a long run a few weeks ago and it was much more comfortable on the motorway than I had anticipated. I hate the lane assist (not good on narrow UK roads) and the stop-start which always seems to stop at the wrong time so I immediately switch those off, but those are minor complaints. It's a brilliant little car.
He makes a very good point about the m140i, it is a scary machine! On a nice smooth A road in perfect conditions it surely would accelerate faster than the Yaris and probably more entertaining on track as well (I never tracked mine). But in 90% of driving situations you’d find yourself in on UK roads (and weathers) the Yaris will blow it out of the water. I can definitely believe the 4.6 time. I pick mine up a few weeks away and will gladly test it (after the first 1000km) :)
First thing to do: Turn off the fake engine noise. You can't do it using the infotainment system, but an ODB2 gadget and iPhone app can do it. I did it within days of getting mine, I couldn't stand the fake noise.
Nice review.It would be good to see a comparison test between the Track Pack equipped version and the Standard version,do the trick diffs make a huge difference for road driving,where most of us tend to drive?
I have the open diff model. I’ve driven a windy road I love (fast) and the diffs weren’t an issue. With TC off and in sport mode (so ‘expert’) it was great and consistent. Never actually spun any tires, but still did help rotate the car through the corner. I’m at a great drive. Like a big go kart.
@@richardnixon4345 okay, says the low life that’s looking for attention in the comment section that more than likely has no car just bis pass , have a nice day 😎
Lots of comments on here comparing it to cars like the Audi S3, Golf R etc. in the real world (on public roads) I think they address different needs. In a straight line or on a major A road my GR Yaris will get destroyed by all the premium hot hatches but on the twisty and bumpy B roads where I live, the roles are completely reversed and in the wet, well hardly anything would keep up with it, it’s just sensational. If you want practicality, performance and a premium badge go for one of the hot hatches but if you want something that is impractical but has no rival in terms of putting a smile on your face, nothing beats it. Finally, one year down the road it looks like only a handful GR Yaris’ are being sold in 2023 (Australias allocation seems to around 100) so residuals on these are likely to be rock solid and with a 10 year Toyota warranty in place I can’t see me selling mine anytime soon.
Nice review, although it might have been helpful to go into more depth about the pros/cons of the different versions. I also find that motoring journalists dismiss sat nav and say use Android auto without thinking it through, in my opinion. I quite like Waze but it's not much cop if you lose your data connection, you still get the maps for quite a while but the guidance is lost. Whereas the built in sat nav continues to work fine, so I prefer to have both. I also thought Android Auto would be wonderful, from reviews like these but the reality is that it sometimes crashes or doesn't work properly (I've used ti for some months on Ford, Skoda and Vauxhall) although it's better than it was. I also found that only some apps are compatible so my standard radio player didn't work and I had to track down one which did. So, for me, I want a car with Android Auto but I also want DAB and built in sat nav (as an aside I was surprised to find the latest Skoda sat nav was possibly slightly better than Waze for the journey I used it with). Just my tuppence worth :-)
I hope the suspension on the Yaris is not as firm as the Ford Focus RS, because that was brutally firm. I had to sell it after only 8 months of ownership as all my filings loosened up.😉
Best real world review on this car I have seen so far. You are the first person I have seen sit the backseat. Can’t get this car in America 🇺🇸 now but I like it.
"Forget about the Yaris nameplate.." he says. Hells bells I removed it and the GR-FOUR plastic badge - rear looks mean and clean with only the Toyota and GR badges..
The real elephant in the room is that the Fiesta ST-3 now starts at £25,500 with metallic paint. What the hell is that all about! The FOCUS ST started from £25k in 2017. That's £26,900 today. The special edition Fiesta ST 200 was £18k in 2016. That's equivalent to £20k today.
in portugal, the 0.9 yaris, from 2007, would cost the same, as this.. as a portuguese citizen, I really feel attracted to move to UK, and buy a rally car, for the price of a yaris!
Unfortunately you can't "buy one of these", the delivery date is now as far out as May 2022... another car manufacturer (like Suzuki and the Jimny) that can't keep up with demand.
I hope for you toyota will sold this yaris in USA at the same time in europe we don 't get camry V6 TRD Avalon TRD or new IS 350 Fsport or V8 ect grettings from Belgium 👍😎
I really don’t get why they didn’t make second gear 5mph taller to nail the 0-60 top trumps. It’d be in the low 4’s high 3’s if you didn’t have to do two manual shifts.
For people wondering why the seats sit so high check out Robert Mitchell's channel where he pulls the interior apart to reveal the seat rails. They are a mess and need to be changed. Hopefully in 2022 Toyota will address the problem and fix the seat rails in the GR Yaris.
The whole homologation story from Toyota is just a marketing ploy. The WRC car shares nothing in common except the roof and door count with the road car unlike the Group A days. And they wouldn't waste that much money for a tiny edge in the lower classes like WRC2.
You're likely correct re marketing ploy! Why allegedly build a totally new rally car for just a year b4 completely new hybrid rules! Then give it large re only 25000 being built blah blah... BUT I still ordered one as it's phenomenal and NOTHING else out there to equal it dynamically spec for spec!
@@afcgeo882 Mate. I don't like the golf R, end of. You clearly feel the same about the GR yaris. The newer mk8 might be better than the mk7 but I'm not interested in it for many reasons, especially that it's not manual in uk so not even worthy of a test drive
An automatic transmission model as GR Yaris RS is sold in JDM. That's FWD, CVT. 1.2 liter NA. 3 cylinders. Weight 1130 kilogram. The prices are 26000 US dollars. An exterior and a chassis are GR. The explanation of a car critic isn't enough for power, but it's more light-weight and fun. It's recommended to the consumer who would like to save money.
How funny people being upset about this car like anyone is forcing them to buy these. Don't worry, those who really want to buy these cars can barelly get their hands on it, so you most likely will never have one anyways.
that statement shows you are still young !! when you get old you dont give a fig about what other folk think !! Im 58 and have a 1971 Escort RS1600 BDA and a 2017 Focus RS and grey balding hair, I dont care !!
Hi George - The Civic Type was our favourite hot hatch before the GR came along, hence the comparison. Both cars also cost a similar amount. We haven't tested the new Golf R yet but it's quite a lot more expensive (starts at over £39k in the UK).
@@James-RJM No. It’s available with a 6-speed manual, just not in the UK yet. The DSG is faster and more satisfying though. 0-60mph is 4.7 seconds and it fits actual 4 people and cargo. Plus it has actual rear torque vectoring via its “drift” mode.
@@afcgeo882 New mk8 is dsg only mate and, for me, shit ott tech and cheesy extreme Ambient lighting etc. Obviously the latter is subjective. It appears to be another, marginally different model to the previous. A VAG formula to a tee! Previous 7.5 I test drove. Don't get me wrong, it was effective but again, for me, boring. I compared it in conversations to someone competent but also who irons their socks! Lol. But each to their own 😉
Problem with this car is that it is essentially as inert as most other modern hatches (steering, driving position etc). It's very fast A to B, especially in the UK, but not the most feelsome experience
@@relentlesspursuit6894 Perhaps our frames of reference aren't the same. If you drive nothing but hot hatches maybe it feels very different, but compared more broadly to performance cars it drives like a very fast hot hatch
@@feelsgoodman245 I've heard many liken it to a 911 - we also all know that itl give most supercars a run for there money. It's a Hot Hatch in shape, but for most it gives the feel of something much more special and seriously capeable. Comparing it to generic hot hatches is selling it well short!
@@relentlesspursuit6894 you should be wearing a helmet full time if you would even consider paying 50 thousand real pounds for that cheap ass looking bubble car.
@@seshelbow336 and gucci slippers as well. What I don't understand is why ppl who aren't interested in driving or in driver's cars, watch and comment on vids on the exact things they don't like. If you don't like a particular thing, then don't waste time watching videos about it and discuss it with other ppl... come on, how hard can it be?
funny, if this had a Ford badge on it, all you would hear is people slagging off the cheap plastics inside, the pathetic waste of space behind the seats, the weak engine sound, the silly piped in simulated engine noise, the poor visibility under the interior mirror over the info centre, the flimsy parcel shelf, the fact that with a proper paint colour and the only spec anyone should buy makes the car a whopping £34000 !!, also a 3 cylinder is an awful engine, thrummy and sounds like a 4 pot with a plug lead off ! BUT.. because it has a Toyota badge everyone is looking past all the bad points and hyping the hell out of it as if there has never been a turbo all wheel drive hatchback before !! Try going on a long motorway trip in one, its short geared to get the performance but 70mph in 6th is about 3000 revs, whereas most cars nowadays are doing 80mph at 3000 revs, the thing is a buzzbox and needs to be driven hard all the time otherwise its got the 'off boost' flat feeling.
I think you have missed the point of the car! It's not a motorway cruiser, nor is it practical, it's not meant to have a luxurious interior - it's a pure drivers car, most owners have them as a 2nd,3rd, 4th car or part of a larger collection. At the price point, it's an absolute steal. As it happens, if you want a "used" example, itl cost you thousands over list, if you want a new one the waitlist is now Dec 2022!
@@relentlesspursuit6894 but the 2016 Focus RS is so much more of a complete car ALL ROUND !! I so wanted to like the Yaris, I would have traded the RS in , but NOPE !! I got back into the Focus after the laggy gutless 3 pot and said no yaris for me thanks. Its all hype, and everyone is ONLY driving it flat out, drive it slowly like you would do normally , in traffic, busy roads etc and its flat.
@@mainman2999 I think you are still missing the point of the car! Personally the GR is far superior to the RS, but they are clearly different animals. The GR is fine around town, but that's not its favourite job, it's out on the B roads where it comes I to it's own. It's a special car, the likes of which we rarely see and certainly wont ever see again.
@@relentlesspursuit6894 but we dont all drive round country lanes and b roads do we?? most folk drive normally on boring roads ! get in a car with over 300bhp and more torque with a 2+ litre engine and you will see the lack of bottom end the 3 pot has, its on boost all the time to keep it going. I just dont see what all the hype is about, its like fanboy stuff, its not doing anything better than the RS was 5 years ago !!
@@mainman2999 when I drive my 3.0 6cyl 480bhp RWD car, it does feel different to the GR but so it should, is it more special than the GR, no, is it quicker round the twisties, no, is it more fun, no. The GR is far more advanced than the Ford - does the Ford have the following : carbon roof, aluminium body panels, 2 LSD's, was it hand built, is it a bespoke chassis, is it a homologation car, does it weigh less than 1300kg. The answer to all of that is NO. The GR will launch quicker than a Porsche GT3, Urus, 488, A45S and pretty much any super car around - and will destroy a stock RS. Virtually nothing can keep up with it on a wet twisty B road. I own a GR, its solely for that purpose, a B road blaster - the 3.0 6cyl 480 bhp RWD does a good enough job as a daily, and my other cars suit other tasks. The GR is a very special car, one which few drivers will be able to own. Perhaps you didn't have a chance to drive it properly when you tried it, or failed to realise its individuality.
@@seshelbow336 i had a 17 plate TYPE R up until last september had it for nearly 4 years brought a new APT tuned 350hp CUPRA R and regret it the cupra is a very good car but in 2 years buying another TYPE R as it was the best car i have ever owned and at 60 i have had a few but i agree that engine in a GT86 would be amazing i had a 14 plate TRD my second fav car
@@relentlesspursuit6894 bad loser cant handle the truth you get a life if all matters to you is having the best by opinion not by fact have it who cares more to life than cars but fiesta st is more fun end of story
@@relentlesspursuit6894 by you just saying that tells me that you know fiesta st is more fun but you just can't handle it i have seen enough reviews and the faces of the people driving them and that tells me all i need to know fiesta st is more fun now please just go away and get a life if you think that gr4 is best i am happy for you but i don't agree end of story
Wow love the shear bonkers nature of this car problem I have with it is the interior, nearly £34,000 for that, ok I get your buying a weapon of a car but unless your going to use it as the weapon that it designed to be whats the point and are we all likely to drive it like we stole on every trip? I must be getting old because I like a nice hot hatch but I also like comfort luxury and quality
To be honest the interior of the Cossie, Integrale, Integra, Evo 6 are all pretty trash. The 1995 Ford Escort was an abomination as a standard car. I've got a Yaris GRMN and they always trash the interior but it's really fine actually, does the job, solidly made and doesn't creak or rattle. I sat in a GR last week and it's nice actually, the gearbox makes the car feel better quality because it's so weighty and precise. I think if Peugeot or Renault had made a homologation Clio, 308 or Mégane I don't think they would be drawing attention to the dashboard quality. Is the Focus RS really a better interior than the Yaris, doesn't look it to me. The German cars and the Civic do skew this perception a little bit because they seem quite a bit better.
It's because they spend all the money on the driving aspect of the car , same with the focus rs mk3 that had the most sophisticated 4wd on the planet when it came out amd people just moaned about the Interior , and it's only now that vw made the golf r etc more playful with drift mode ,because of the driver engagement that the focus had , only hard-core drivers want a manual gearbox , the rest just want to have it done for them while all the computers keep them on the road
Ηey! In a few days you will say that Yaris GR exellerates like 911 Turbo S.! Bulshits! Come ooooon! At high range of rotaring the motor is ''dead body''! It groans to exceed 220Κm/h. Very ''short'' transmission and the c.b.u software throws down the turbo boost after the limit of 6.500rpm. Very overestimated model
Not really. I have a 911 gts, M5, macan pp, and several very fast racing and rally cars. The Yaris is quicker than all of them in the real world. This is car for people with some rallying or racing expertise really.
The budget went on the drive train and chassis....a posh interior and hi tech infotainment set up would probably push it way beyond £40k unfortunately.
@@Kay_Hizzle You are missing the point. The car is great but you spent most of the time inside the car watching a dashboard that is subpar to the rest of the car. Btw the French make the beatifull interiors nowadays not the Germans.
@@knowntobehonest I don't drive a car to experience the interior and I never have. I drive a car for the experience of driving. We're all different, it's okay. Maybe this car isn't for you, again that's fine. Go buy what appeals to you and be happy hahaha.
@@Kay_Hizzle Don't get me wrong i really like this car. Probably the hot hatch which is most fun to drive at this moment. Its just a pitty that Toyota didn't make any effort in making the interior special as well.
I find it an over-hyped, expensive, cheapo-interior'd, one-trick pony. It does the AWD traction-tastic thing, great. But that just gets boring very quickly. I prefer FUN, and sliding the back end around at roundabouts. Even with the remap cost added, my M140i was still 10 grand cheaper than the Yaris staring price, for a 2.5 year old with under 15k miles. And it's quicker, better equipped, nicer interior, is a lot more practical, much more relaxing (in comfort mode with the adaptive suspension), yet at the same time MUCH more fun in sport+ when I want to get the car sideways.
@@chantalslut I have watched videos of ppl adjusting the rear bias as much as it will go, and it 'sort of' drifts a bit, but it's artificial, and it's still not like a proper RWD car. I'll admit, I haven't driven one yet, but I have driven plenty of AWD hatches, as I work in the motor trade, and I don't see anything yet that can give the fun factor of a pure RWD car, even the new GolfR has a drift mode, like the old Focus RS, but neither are real, it's a sort of uncontrollable 4 wheel drift which slides a bit more at the back. Only time you can use it is in a wide open car park or something, not usable on the road, and pointless.
I can confirm the M140 is not quicker, nor is it more fun than the GR - I own both, I'd pick the Toyota key over the M140 key any day of the week! The GR is significantly quicker on UK roads, that's in the dry - in the wet the M140 would not see which way the GR went!
@@relentlesspursuit6894 Your Yaris would not keep up with my remapped (did you miss the bit where I said remapped) M140i. It might do in the wet yes, I agree. I even said so much in my original post, which you seem to have completely disregarded. The Yaris, as I have already said, and you seem to have missed, does not give the same fun factor (because it grips too well), doesn't have as much kit/tech, isn't as high quality interior, isn't as comfy, doesn't have the same practicality, isn't anywhere near as quick in a straight line even in the wet, sounds sh*t in comparison to the B58, looks sh*t imo, and is way too expensive. It is a nippy, AWD (thus good cornering machine), and thats it. A one-trick pony, which will get very boring very quickly when you have to drive it around town and shopping duties, or on long motorway journeys, or in fact, in 99% of any driving situations which don't involve a twisty B-road blast in the wet.
@@ShutterKnack Why? Most cars will be going battery powered with no stickshift 🔋😒😬😕🙄 and also this is a stupid car as you can't even drive above 70.0mph anyway 🙄
@@shanjanusman9974 u obviously live in a little fantasy bubble where you think every one in the world should be thinking like you. Their are entire industry’s built around performance and racing and this is just a little part of it. They don’t build things like this if their wasn’t a market for it. There is F1 and WRC etc out there. Some of the highest paid people in the world are in these industries. The head of the biggest car brand in the world “Toyota” personally worked on Themis cars development. I think your the stupid one who’s thinks people who like it are stupid. Grow up and get off the comment section and look up Honda jazz or something. Moron.
@@shanjanusman9974 this car is for track and rally...you drive to a trackday, have fun, and then you drive home. Oh yeah, have fun, you don't know that part...