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Originally Posted by nikitopo
It is NOT a limited production car and there is not any relationship with homologation. The days a manufacturer had to produce a street car "close" to the rally specifications is over for decades. Toyota was using for at least 2-3 years a Yaris WRC car without having a Yaris AWD production model. I would say that the 25000 number is a threshold to mark the model either successful or not in terms of margin performance and internal targets.
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The new WRC car is based on the GR Yaris though and not the normal one therefore it requires homologation.
In the footnotes of this official article from Toyota they also mention that.
https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/to...RfDOXL8.mailto
The car will be in production for a year and 25.000 will be built. That's why Toyota has given people the option to reserve one. Once they are all accounted for it's done.
25.000 is still plenty though. I don't think there will be too many people disappointed that they can't get one. Besides all the people in NA of course.
It will certainly not be the same situation as with my Yaris GRMN which is so rare most people have never seen one before.