Toyota GR Yaris

[nikitopo]

Originally Posted by JD001

I think the Yaris works in Black and the standard White, I don't like the Red or the Ceramic white.

Are you sure about the red?

[JD001]

Originally Posted by nikitopo

Are you sure about the red?

Yep, absolutely. Black or Solid White. Funny observation, in most of the videos the presenters expresses surprise that the hood weighs so little.. what are they expecting, it's a small hood... note, I did not use the correct name for the hood...

[Kaotic Lazagna]

Originally Posted by Captain Snooze

Nah, I don't pay a lot attention to the colour of my cars which sounds contradictory I know.

Let me try this again.
I am disappointed by the lack of colour options but I don't really care.
It's just that I notice the lack of variety of colour when I look at cars in a car park. 95% are either white,silver, grey or black.

Oh, gotcha. Yeah, I do agree, that color options given by manufacturers these days is very limited. Fortunately for me, I do like white, as long as it's a pearl white.

Would be nice to see more colors like the nitro yellow they offer on the A90 Supra.

[Kaotic Lazagna]

Originally Posted by JD001

Yep, absolutely. Black or Solid White. Funny observation, in most of the videos the presenters expresses surprise that the hood weighs so little.. what are they expecting, it's a small hood... note, I did not use the correct name for the hood...

The steel hoods on my both my previous Yarii (sedan and hatch) were stupid light. But like you said, they were very small hoods.

[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.