Spot on review ! I got one 2 months ago after getting a job with a 42 mile each way commute. It is managing 67mpg atm on a mostly motorway commute. Speed and comfort fine. In fact, I prefer driving it to my 2019 X3 M40i …. Which is saying something. That’s obviously a massively different car but the fact I find the Yaris The one I head for says a lot ! The X3 is a wonderful car I’ve had from new … it is just the Yaris is so easy to jump in and uses hardly any petrol.
I'm a driving instructor using the new Yaris. I've had it now about 3 months. My learners love it, it's a doddle to drive, comfortable, nippy and I get 73 mpg on lessons. It's brilliant.
@@BuckleUpShow Yes. I taught manual for over 19 years & decided to make the switch to automatic only. I've been equally as busy, it's becoming more & more popular. The car has been spot on
We bought a new one in 2021, and it's not had to go to the dealer apart from Servicing. It's a nice car to drive and we get around 60mpg. I love the navigation when using Android Auto. You can navigate using voice commands. Since we've had the Yaris, I don't think we've had any passengers in the back, so the space is irellevant, like most other owners I would guess. They aren't cheap cars to buy, but they are super reliable.
It is a higher entry price than rivals, but to get a car equivalently spec'd by any of them you would be paying roughly the same, glad you're enjoying it
Been driving one for almost two weeks now and I love it. Don’t care about mpg because it’s a company car. Its fun and responsive when you floor it, even when driving 100-120kph it easily accelerates. Easy to get speeding tickets in. Also the lane assist is not annoying like in some cars and it can easily be turned off by pressing the button for a few seconds. Brilliant little machine that is a technological marvel imho.
Having moved to this from the last of the petrol 6-speed manual Yaris's - which I thought was pretty good - I found it to be a remarkable step forwards in driving comfort, agility, technology, and economy. It's easy to get 70-80 mpg, both motorway & urban. Love it!
I've down graded size wise from a 2013 opel mokka to a 2023 Yaris luna hybred. I've no regrets in the purchase at all as I had an older Yaris (2000) and the darn thing is still going strong with its new owner! Hoping this new one will be as reliable! Cannot wait to get the keys in a few weeks.
Been driving it since May and got almost nothing to complain (I'm German, that's how we praise something😁). Got the Tokyo Pop-Out Spec level plus JBL, which included basically every available option and is not available anymore (at least in Germany afaik). I especially love the HUD and the ACC. Three things I would complain a little about: - only one USB and one 12 V socket in the whole car - There is no warning before the screen wash runs empty. I thought this was standard nowadays. - You can't adjust the volume of the navigation announcements on-the-fly. You have to go deep into settings for that and there you have only 4 or 5 levels. I read it's different in the optional entertainment system with the slightly larger screen and less buttons which is available in this year's Yaris. The last point annoys me occasionally, the rest I can live with.
We bought a new Yaris about 18 months ago, the first brand new car we've ever bought. We have no complaints with it whatsoever. They even put in front and rear dashcams in for no extra cost. Great for driving around town, and easy to park. It is a little noisy at speed, but you can't have everything. For longer journeys we us a Lexus IS300h. To get Android Auto navigation, you need a phone with at least Android 9.. MPG will vary quite a lot depending on whether you are driving in Summer or Winter, expect mid 60's unless you have a heavy foot. Rear leg room is pretty irrelevant as it's not really a family car, they are driven by people who favour reliability over performance. Regarding EV Mode, You'll find that it's seldom that you'll be able to employ it. It'll only work when starting from a standstill, and then only when you are moving slowly.
Swapping my Auris hybrid touring for the Design with a pano roof which isn’t available for upgrade now. The 4 year old Auris has done 80k and not had a single fault. Mileage is amazing and this will be even better. I will never go back to petrol again.
Seriously considering the Yaris next year. Seems like a great little car. I have flirted with the idea of a new Sandero for all of the reasons that people ever consider a Sandero, but this Yaris looks like a trusty servant. The exceptionally high mpg and EV mode are a clincher, and I'm a sucker for the modern look. I know many people will say to just own an old second hand car with a more premium badge but in the real world this Yaris is likely better in every way. Nice review
My new black hybrid Yaris is arriving on 25th Jan can't wait. I've got an old Mercedes that drinks juice and the Yaris is going to save me a fortune! The car's coming on the Toyota family deal so even better. I'll post again once I've done some miles...
Nice review. Just a quick tip, gross vehicle weight refers to the weight of the vehicle + fuel, passengers, and cargo - the car actually weighs just under 1.1 tonne (this is called kerb weight), nearly 100kg less than a Fiesta!
Kerb weight also doesn't include battery's as they're considered fuel, so I tend to go with gross for a hybrid or EV. Also every vehicle HAS TO have a declared GVW due to the law but some manufacturers use kerb and some use dry as its up to them, its easier to be consistent with GVW.
@@Davidismynameo Battery only weighs around 50kgs, though, so that equivalent of 4 light passengers against 4 heavy passengers, so personally I still feel kerb weight is preferable guide.
Enjoyed your review. I currently have a Puma which is great and does 50mpg. However I commute 52 miles daily. I’ve just been in my colleague’s Yaris hybrid. He regularly gets 80mpg….. on a similar commute …. Considering one 🤔
I wish Toyota had done Yaris a bit bigger for rear the passengers. Perfect small car would be Yaris engine and gearbox, Polo size and Mercedes interior design.
Sold my Mustang 2016 GT and bought Yaris, for my driving now it is great, no more German Autobahn, just Town driving....and not prepared to pay horrendous taxes and insurance for just few km to village😂
@@BuckleUpShowthat may be true, but beeing realistic, I had for 7 years and 80000km fun, now at 65 brain kicks in: saying relax😅, had also an Aston Martin DBS, but comes time to be reasonable 😅
No you can't stall the car, if the car is in drive and there is no braking force applied it will gently creep forward but if you brake it just stays still no need to shift into neutral or anything
Good stuff. You're a natural, thank you for the review. I'm currently deciding between the Yaris and the 208. My brain says Toyota but my heart says Peugeot... Economically the Yaris makes so much sense, but I still wanna feel special. I'm torn!
Yaris no contest for me but I have flirted with the idea of the Peugeot. Don't blame you. Unless you love the 208 *a lot* I would say go with your head
An interesting review. I’m running one of the previous model Yaris Hybrids, so it’s good to see how different the new one is. Chewing over what to replace it with soon.
I've been running the MK3 hybrid for 4 years plus also. Have ordered a new excel for next year. It's a huge improvement reading on the Toyota forum as well online reviews such as this. My main gripe on the mk3 is engine noise from hard acceleration and handling on country roads. The new one has sorted those things out.
Looks like a great car. We have a 2007 Yaris. Unfortunately Toyota is not importing them into Canada any more. Just the the rest of North America,I think Toyota just wants to sell big SUVs and trucks here.
I wonder why the other car companies cannot make a full hybrid It would just make things so much better because if Hyundai would just make the i-20 or i-10 in hybrid like the Yaris I'd buy them in a heartbeat because they're just brilliant for fuel efficiency and they've got good pep.
I think part of it is cost, especially on the i10. I wouldn’t rule out an i20 hybrid in the future, though. We have an i20 on test in a couple of weeks so stay tuned to see that!
thanks BuckleUp, l enjoyed your review and it helps me fend off temptation of BYD Dolphin soon to arrive in Australia, wheras Yaris order is 8 month wait : (
@@BuckleUpShow l have had my order brought forward from December to August due to a cancellation- probably someone was tempted by a Dolphin- electronic cars are not so easily procured here either
Got this as a courtesy car at the moment, as much as I miss my MG HS, this is so easy to drive and park. Still can’t wait for my car to be repaired though, it’s so weird to be so close to the ground 😂
I like the Yaris but simply can't bring myself to accept the size limitations (I have an Octavia). It's a shame; maybe I need to look at the Corolla instead?
Been offered this as a company car, only thing that has me worried is im about 300lbs and 6ft and ive had bad experiences with smaller cars. Could anyone quash my fears?
Nice review, but I think(as has been mentioned) you are mistaken to use the gross weight ( which is max payload including passengers and luggage). Battery treated as fuel? This is nonsensical as its an integrated part of the car. Actually Toyota say the new lithium-ion battery is 12kg lighter than the old NiMH one which would make it around 32Kg, its only 0.76 kwh. If the real world weight was about 1.6 tonnes, I think with just driver and car the claimed 9.6s 0-62 would be very unlikely. For reference , Pure Driving channel weighed one : 1091kg without driver, not exactly heavy..
Well, with all the being the case, the car is still very heavy on its feet. It benefits from this at a cruise where it feels like a big stable car, but loses out on a back road compared to a Ford Fiesta or Hyundai i20.
@@BuckleUpShow There is quite a difference between 1.2 tons and 1.6 tons. I found your video very informative and interesting but I cannot say I've noticed any heaviness in handling since I bought mine in February, even having driven 1300 miles in two trips, fully loaded (two of us plus a full boot with around 800 Litres of luggage) on mixed roads, M,A and Bs. Perhaps there's a difference in our driving styles.The mpg is really, really outstanding however. I can regularly get 80-100 mpg in urban traffic and those long trips averaged 62-65 mpg. I have no complaints at all about the car.
@@BuckleUpShow "The gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR), or gross vehicle mass (GVM), is the maximum operating weight/mass of a vehicle as specified by the manufacturer including the vehicle's chassis, body, engine, engine fluids, fuel, accessories, driver, passengers and cargo but excluding that of any trailers."
Unlike many commentators you didn't mention that it's apparently noisy on the motorway so I guess it can't be all that bad in this connection. I think it's stunningly beatiful to look at. However, in the market for a compact hybrid I can't forgive Toyota for not including a built‐in satnav - even on the topspec version. Grrrrrrrrrrrr! That omission rules it out for me completely. It's the same story on the replica Mazda 2 hybrid though folks might be interested to know that there's a big difference in wheel size, viz Toyota 16" and 17" v Mazda 15" and 16".
In my opinion it's more quiet and refined than most of its supermini rivals, if you're coming for an S-Class then yes it probably would seem noisy but coming out of a Fiesta it will seem very pleasant. Sat Nav is dead, Apple car play and Android auto is so much better than anything a car manufacturer can produce and Toyota knows it, why spend all that money developing a system that will be immediately out of date that no one will use.
@@BuckleUpShowwhich one you'd pick ? Is the difference in driving that big between 2, like how much better 20% better ? Also which chassis is stronger for crashes
Not everything is quantifiable, I would pick the Mini. Euro NCAP testing shows the Yaris to be better in an accident which isn't surprising as it's a much newer design
@@BuckleUpShow alright so you'd pick the mini based only on driving experience and interior right ? What do you think about minis fuel consumption is it that bad ?
Fantastic review but too much tech for me. Toyotas reputation for reliability will ail in time. My daughter has a 10 plate 1.0 yaris done almost 100k. Only ever serviced by me (so easy) and an exhaust back box. On a run it will show 72.2 mpg. Tank to tank petrol top up is no less that 63 mpg. I attribute that to keeping the pcv clean. It’s pretty gutless but will cruise at 75 no problem. Not great with 5 people in. I would much rather a simple ice yaris
HELP! You very kindly replied to my prev comments. Thank you. Now I need your assistance, please. I'm shortly to take delivery of the Mazda replica version and there infuriatingly being no satnav and me a not tech‐savvy octogenarian I'm stressing - I know this sounds silly but I'm serious - about being forced to faff around with connecting a damn cable simply to get a map on the screen for navigation purposes Grrrrrrrrr! What worries me is that I gather the phone's battery will run out of juice in a long trip, ie not sufficiently charge up, and at some point the screen will presuably go blank and I'll find myself lliterally stranded in the middle of nowhere... Are my fears justified? IN STEP‐BY‐STEP simple language can you please tell me e x a c t l y what I need to buy and where (ie that blasted cable) and as it were talk me though the process of how to set up the screen to enable navigational provision? Despite what you say i can't forgive the manufacturers for not including a built‐in satnav.(I understand that Toyota do now include the device on the Excel model so maybe they've bowed to numerous others who, like me, 'insist' on such inclusion.) Over to you - rescue me, please.
Hi David, Firstly, no your phone shouldn't die whilst plugged into the car as it charges it while it's connected. Second, do you have an iPhone or an Android? This will inform what kind of cable you need. P.S. If you want to Direct message us on twitter to do the rest of the steps that might help as we'll be able to illustrate the steps with pictures
@@BuckleUpShow Thank you, that's most reassuring. I have an Android smartphone. Sorry, tech overload so no Twitter (yes, I'm a still in the nineteenth century). Where would I buy the cable and what do I ask for? Daft extra question: I know where the connecting slot is on the dashboard for the cable but where does the other end go (I'm that unkowlegable about such things)?
It should just be whatever cable you use to charge your phone at home, but specifically it's a USB-A to USB-C cable. You can find them on Amazon, any larger supermarket branch, Curry's PC World or Halfords. The cable goes into the dash at one end as you say (that's the USB-A end) and the other end just goes in your phones charging port (the USB-C end)
Thanks very much indeed. I did indeed go on Amazon yesterday and ordered a half metre connection cable. When I get the vehicle (it should be arriving at Bristol Docks this very day) I hope I discover that via the relevant button on the screen device it's an essentially SIMPLE matter of tapping in the destination post code and that's it; unlike the Renault Clio E‐tech I also hope the voice‐over on the Toyota/Mazda satnav gives clear and unjumbled instructions - this latter aspect is a pain in the proverbial in the French car; if at the dealership on collection day I find that the Mazda 2 Hybrid satnav is problematical on either or both fronts I'll reject the car.
@@DavidHughes-op6zl You are not actually using Toyota's/mazdas satnav, you are going to be using a satnav app of your choosing, installed on your phone and transmitted to the cars infotainment via usb, so it is entirely up to you to choose the app you prefer, there is also no need for map updates since your phone just uses the internet for automatic updates, you should have Google maps by default, but personally i prefer waze, since it has quite a bit more functionality in AA/CP mode. There are also wireless adapters if you want a more automatic experience.
Please see other comments where we’ve already explained this. The batteries are not counted in the kerb weight as they count as fuel so we've used GVW.
@@BuckleUpShow that is not correct, the weight is 1065kg without liquids, petrol oil and so on. Put it on a scale and you'll see. And that small battery don't come close to 500kg.
Hate this car!! Sluggish engine,CVT really annoying. Car feels like it's labouring..Mpg most disappointing of all. 45mpg regardless of how sensible I drive it. It was the mpg that mattered the most and I feel really cheated. Drove a hyundai ionique for 2 yrs. Lovely big car,and delivered 60mpg. Never again. I'm not stuck in a PCP deal with a 23 plate.
Just my advice: also visit the Honda dealer. The Jazz (or Jazz Crosstar) are similar in outside dimensions, but a lot more space inside. You get a little more luggage space too, and surprise surprise... you also get the genius "Magic Seats". In addition, the Jazz is better finished, especially the interior, is a bit faster, also very economical and for more or less the same price. We really wanted to replace our Yaris with this new Yaris. Until, purely out of curiosity, we also took an extensive test drive in the Jazz. A test drive costs you nothing... and can be very surprising!
Sorry mate,,,,,, great review but you don't look as if your old enough to give reviews on cars not the most experienced review but still OK just cool it down a bit, think you trying to copy the guy from car wow doesn't work 👍👍
Hi John. Just because you, presumably, feel that you've waited too long to do anything with your life doesn't mean the rest of us have to wait around (until whatever age you deem is acceptable to be a motoring journalist?) to pursue our passion so you don't have to feel inadequate 💋