RE: 2024 Toyota GR Yaris | PH Review

[ChocolateFrog]

There's something very 80's Sci-fi about it, can definitely see it growing on me.

[Glenn63]

I liked the MK1 and I like this one. Perfect for me with just me the mrs and a dog, back seats be folded permanently for a little GR van! Pricey though, would like to see a comparison against the FL5 type R.

[Newbie2023]

ChocolateFrog said:

There's something very 80's Sci-fi about it, can definitely see it growing on me.

My personal view is that it looks a bit cheap, even though I'm a fan of it's general simplicity. I expect that just so long as it doesn't also feel cheap at the same time that it won't present itself as being much of a burden though.

[ecsrobin]

cerb4.5lee said:

I remember getting "told off" on here once for calling it a short wheelbased car too! I think because it is such a small car...you just naturally see it as having a short wheelbase in fairness. Plus it doesn't take much to upset GR Yaris owners either, and they are among the most precious owners of a car that I've ever come across(on here anyway).

I can't stop laughing at the dash in this to be honest, however I'd still really like a go in it though.

Precious owner inbound. I don’t think they are precious I just think you appear in every thread, moan they’re not a V8 over and over again. There are plenty of threads where I have no interest so I don’t comment yet you continue to do so on the Yaris so get met with resistance.

[croyde]

Billy_Whizzzz said:

SimmoJon said:

Oh bore off wont you

Seems an unfair and churlish response to a useful and considered post.

I would like to know if an inch lower really makes any difference.

I have an Abarth with Sabelt seats. I love them but you can't adjust the height and I'd like them to be lower.

There's a lowering kit that drops them that same inch but I cannot believe that such a small measurement could make such a difference.

If the writer would let us know, I'd be grateful. Cheers.

[Gibbo205]

Hi there

We sold our MK1 a couple of weeks back taking the gamble we would win the ballot.

Our luck is in, we have won one and I’ve ordered grey with manual.

We had our MK1 from new so just over three and half years and sold it privately for 25k this June it is lost us 8k in our ownership the equivalent to £190 a month - bargain!

We plan to keep MK2 forever unless it seriously unimpressed in some aspect but if we do ever sell it in a few years we expect our losses to be greater than 8k, maybe as much as 20k as I expect though this year the car will be seriously limited to maybe around 200-300 units I’d expect Toyota to build and ship a lot more to the U.K. in 2025z

I’m looking forward to getting the MK2 and seeing how it compares to our MK1.

[Newbie2023]

Gibbo205 said:

Hi there

We sold our MK1 a couple of weeks back taking the gamble we would win the ballot.

Our luck is in, we have won one and I’ve ordered grey with manual.

We had our MK1 from new so just over three and half years and sold it privately for 25k this June it is lost us 8k in our ownership the equivalent to £190 a month - bargain!

We plan to keep MK2 forever unless it seriously unimpressed in some aspect but if we do ever sell it in a few years we expect our losses to be greater than 8k, maybe as much as 20k as I expect though this year the car will be seriously limited to maybe around 200-300 units I’d expect Toyota to build and ship a lot more to the U.K. in 2025z

I’m looking forward to getting the MK2 and seeing how it compares to our MK1.

Congratulations, I hope that it works out well for you.

[cerb4.5lee]

ecsrobin said:

cerb4.5lee said:

I remember getting "told off" on here once for calling it a short wheelbased car too! I think because it is such a small car...you just naturally see it as having a short wheelbase in fairness. Plus it doesn't take much to upset GR Yaris owners either, and they are among the most precious owners of a car that I've ever come across(on here anyway).

I can't stop laughing at the dash in this to be honest, however I'd still really like a go in it though.

Precious owner inbound. I don’t think they are precious I just think you appear in every thread, moan they’re not a V8 over and over again. There are plenty of threads where I have no interest so I don’t comment yet you continue to do so on the Yaris so get met with resistance.

Yes and that is very fair Rob.

I have been terrible for putting the boot into the engine to be fair in the past, and that is unfair/wrongly judged I think, because I haven't even experienced it.

[AmazingGrace]

Newbie2023 said:

There appears to be no mention by the author as to whether, or not, the 25mm drop in seat height has been sufficient enough to address that particular bugbear of the original model or how the efforts to increase visability have translated to the real world driving experience? To address so early in the piece the fact that specifc areas of improvement were targeted by Toyota in the development of this revision then fail to follow up on as to if those efforts have resulted in the desired effect seems to be a bit of an oversight to me.

I quite like the simplistic functionality of the dash but it definitely looks 'Atari' retro as opposed to anything contempory, let alone futuristic. Again there is no mention of how this compares from a user perspective to the previous model? I appreciate that this car is predominantly about the sensations brought from the way it goes but a little more detail of how the package now works as a cohesive whole wouldn't go amiss, especially if it were aspects other than the overall driving exoerience which subjected the product to any form of criticism the first time around?

Edited by Newbie2023 on Saturday 29th June 07:23

Yawn.
Must be so frustrating for you, that you had to spew out an overly verbose and unnecessary reply.

Want to know about the seats? Go and sit in one. Simple.

[Ray_Aber]

Billy_Whizzzz said:

SimmoJon said:

Oh bore off wont you

Seems an unfair and churlish response to a useful and considered post.

That was my first impression too - the same as you. I thought the first post made a valid point.

Edited by Ray_Aber on Saturday 29th June 12:42

[Newbie2023]

AmazingGrace said:

Yawn.
Must be so frustrating for you, that you had to spew out an overly verbose and unnecessary reply.

Want to know about the seats? Go and sit in one. Simple.

So essentially, going by your logic, is there any point to either this or any other review at all then? Surely anybody that is interested in product will just have to go out and try it for themselves as opposed to making any attempts to gain meaningful information about it before hand?

[croyde]

Anyway, how can you sit in one of they are all sold.

I've been on this forum since 2005 and still can't understand why some posters seem to take great delight in slagging off strangers.

If you are not happy with him asking about stuff that was written about in the original review which didn't gleen answers just ignore/keep quiet.

Keep the place friendly, no need for nastiness

[Billy_Whizzzz]

SebSpitz88 said:

Blimey, he’s getting weirder

In other news, the car seems to be even better so credit to Toyota!

Your efforts to imply he’s weird just isn’t working. You’re sounding a little hysterical.

[Billy_Whizzzz]

AmazingGrace said:

Newbie2023 said:

There appears to be no mention by the author as to whether, or not, the 25mm drop in seat height has been sufficient enough to address that particular bugbear of the original model or how the efforts to increase visability have translated to the real world driving experience? To address so early in the piece the fact that specifc areas of improvement were targeted by Toyota in the development of this revision then fail to follow up on as to if those efforts have resulted in the desired effect seems to be a bit of an oversight to me.

I quite like the simplistic functionality of the dash but it definitely looks 'Atari' retro as opposed to anything contempory, let alone futuristic. Again there is no mention of how this compares from a user perspective to the previous model? I appreciate that this car is predominantly about the sensations brought from the way it goes but a little more detail of how the package now works as a cohesive whole wouldn't go amiss, especially if it were aspects other than the overall driving exoerience which subjected the product to any form of criticism the first time around?

Edited by Newbie2023 on Saturday 29th June 07:23

Yawn.
Must be so frustrating for you, that you had to spew out an overly verbose and unnecessary reply.

Want to know about the seats? Go and sit in one. Simple.

Be a little easier for the review to tell us what it is actually like.

[foxhounduk]

S600BSB said:

fantheman80 said:

I would get used to it but I really don’t like that dash. Surely from a company so on its game and the rest of the car so impressive they could have come up with something less Amstrad

Agree. Really not good enough.

I'm not sure why people are hung up about the dash. It's clear Toyota designed it like this to pay homage to the WRC car. It's giving the punters what they want, a true homologation special. They want you to feel like you're driving a rally car to work. We cry about having cars like this, and when they make it, people start to moan!!

[AmyRichardson]

foxhounduk said:

I'm not sure why people are hung up about the dash. It's clear Toyota designed it like this to pay homage to the WRC car. It's giving the punters what they want, a true homologation special. They want you to feel like you're driving a rally car to work. We cry about having cars like this, and when they make it, people start to moan!!

Not sure about that. The rally car interior looks like rally cars look - I.e. an "it'll do" ad-hoc collection of small workshop fabrications. The GRY dash looks like a product of mass production, as if the "driver pod" is designed as a large, drag-n-drop component to be one-sized into a range of economy hatches and light commercials.

[GTRene]

from some angles the car looks good, but full side it looks to me like they planted the rear from behind the door on, on from another car? hm'



the dash at least in LHD looks...hm, like some kids car play simulator thing.



I'm not sure which one looks better...

[Newbie2023]

GTRene said:

I'm not sure which one looks better...

Do they do a manual version with a n/a V8? Asking for Cerb4.5lee

[cerb4.5lee]

Newbie2023 said:

GTRene said:

I'm not sure which one looks better...

Do they do a manual version with a n/a V8? Asking for Cerb4.5lee

[nismo48]

What a fab little pocket rocket.