Toyota GR Yaris

[Captain Snooze]

Originally Posted by Kaotic Lazagna

The steel hoods on my both my previous Yarii .

I like that: the plural of Yaris.

[WildCard600]

Meh... I'm waiting for the TRD off road package.

[Galerion]

At 4:52 this shows some kind of bodykit. Don't know what's up with it and if you are actually able to buy it but I really like the look of it. Especially the diffuser with the 4 exhaust pipes makes the car look even meaner.

[EAGLE5]

It really squirts out of the corner when he gets it right. Seems to rotate pretty well.

[Pat]

Originally Posted by EAGLE5

It really squirts out of the corner when he gets it right. Seems to rotate pretty well.

What makes you think it rotates well? I didn't watch all of the track video, but the bits I did see look and sound like it understeers terribly.

[nikitopo]

Not the best option to test a rally based car on a race track. A closed uphill road or gravel would be a better option. There are other videos on gravel.

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[Pat]

Originally Posted by nikitopo

Not the best option to test a rally based car on a race track. A closed uphill road or gravel would be a better option. There are other videos on gravel.

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A rally based car? Let's be clear about this. It is a street car, plain and simple. The marketing department may frame it as something else, but it is designed to be a street car from the very beginning.
That being said, legitimate rally cars would rotate much better than what I saw in that video on the track.

[EAGLE5]

Originally Posted by Pat

What makes you think it rotates well? I didn't watch all of the track video, but the bits I did see look and sound like it understeers terribly.

When he put down the power, the front appeared to tuck in nicely, especially on that tight left hander before the back straight. Any car can be made to understeer or oversteer.

[nikitopo]

Originally Posted by Pat

A rally based car? Let's be clear about this. It is a street car, plain and simple. The marketing department may frame it as something else, but it is designed to be a street car from the very beginning.

Yes it is a street car but it is focused for racing the same way other brands are doing. It is just not so much focused for race track events, but more for hill climb events or gravel or snow. Marketing hasn't to do anything about it, apart from some homologation bullshit and promotion material.

Anyway this particular won't come to your market, so not much to worry about its rotation performance.

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[Captain Snooze]

Originally Posted by Pat

A rally based car? Let's be clear about this. It is a street car, plain and simple.

I appreciate it's impossible to separate the marketing spiel from reality. Impossible.

But having said that it was said of the modern GT40 that Ford designed a race car first then made it road legal as opposed to the other way around.

The GR Yaris is a homologation car; it wouldn't surprise me if there were design considerations made to this car that wouldn't be applied to a street car.
Given the car can vary between 100% rwd to 100% fwd I am suggesting the "quality" of rotation is variable.

[Pat]

"The GR Yaris is a homologation car; it wouldn't surprise me if there were design considerations made to this car that wouldn't be applied to a street car.
Given the car can vary between 100% rwd to 100% fwd I am suggesting the "quality" of rotation is variable."

Yes, this is the cool, meaningful bit. I wonder what the power distribution setup was like in that video. Because, while one can only tell so much from a video, it sure looked and sounded like it plowed a lot. Well....like most other street cars, I guess.

[Galerion]

I think this video until the 8:10 mark does a good in giving insight into the topic of "rotation". That being said this is no GT 86. The car is built for grip and comes from the factory with some very good rubber. You certainly shouldn't expect the ass to get out of line on every single corner that you take.

I also just ordered mine. High Performance version in Pearl White. Non-committal delivery date is April 2021. So the big waiting game has begun

[JD001]

Originally Posted by Galerion

I think this video until the 8:10 mark does a good in giving insight into the topic of "rotation". That being said this is no GT 86. The car is built for grip and comes from the factory with some very good rubber. You certainly shouldn't expect the ass to get out of line on every single corner that you take.

I also just ordered mine. High Performance version in Pearl White. Non-committal delivery date is April 2021. So the big waiting game has begun

Well done. Any ideas on numbers available/sold?

[Galerion]

Originally Posted by JD001

Well done. Any ideas on numbers available/sold?

My dealer said he already sold a few. I also heard somewhere there have been over 6000 preorders already which is pretty good when you consider that there will be only 25000 and that at this point in time you have buy it blind just like I did.