2021 Toyota GR Yaris

When Toyota’s president Akio Toyoda said “No more boring cars” during an announcement back in early 2017, I ignorantly chuckled. Was it an admission or a promise, or both? Regardless, little did I know that development for the Toyota GR Yaris had already commenced.It was the dawn of TNGA products and since then, I’ve found that Toyota models that are underpinned by it have an organic, fluid flavour in terms of driving dynamics, and that’s only the ‘regular&rsq

Mechanical underpinnings of the GR Yaris Engine tuned to make 300 PS/370 Nm 6-speed manual and AWDAhead of its official debut, which will be happening in less than a day from the time of writing, initial details and photos of the new Toyota GR Corolla have been leaked.As speculated from earlier reports, the Toyota GR Corolla gets the GR Yaris’ 1.6-litre 3-cylinder turbocharged petrol engine, but fettled to output 300 PS and 370 Nm – a healthy 39 PS and 10 Nm increase over the GR Yari

Proper manuals with three pedals might be the spark of the enthusiasts’ flame but automatics are the firewood that keeps the fire going. In other words, automatics unfortunately pays the bills for any business. Hence, Toyota is in the midst of developing an 8-speed automatic variant of the formidable GR Yaris.Now that you’ve caught your breath, let’s dissect this brand-new transmission and the logic behind it (here’s a clue for the latter; dolla dolla bills).Also Read: Th

List out some of the coolest bosses on the planet and you’d be hard pressed to exclude Akio Toyoda. You might know him as the president of that rather large car company bearing his family name, Toyota. The man breathes motorsports and was fully behind the GR Yaris right from the start. It turned out to be one of the most brilliant things with an engine in decades and Toyoda deserved to hoon it a little.Hoon it he did, in the process becoming the coolest boss any petrolhead could work for.

Last year, Toyota wrestled back the No. 1 non-national car brand spot from Honda, and naturally they got there by selling the Toyota Vios, Toyota Yaris, and Toyota Hilux by the boatloads to Malaysians.The Vios took the gong as the brands best-selling model, and the Yaris, the nations top-selling hatchback.Naturally this means theres thousands of them out there, and for buyers looking to set themselves apart theres the GR Parts set by Gazoo Racing.Also read: Move aside Honda, Toyota is now Malays

The Toyota GR Yaris is already a pretty manic little hot hatch but of course Toyota had to crank it up a notch or two and shift it closer towards the realm of a hyper hatch with the Toyota GRMN Yaris that it unveiled at the Tokyo Auto Salon 2022 today.While the GR stands for Gazoo Racing, GRMN stands for Gazoo Racing tuned by “Meister of Nürburgring.” While it isn’t necessarily a tribute to the Green Hell, it does translate into a meaner and leaner version of the already f