Japanese domestic sales of the updated 2024 Toyota GR Yaris facelift are to begin on 8-April 2024, bringing with it an automatic transmission, beyond a host of new stuff. While that will be relatively readily available, the two special brews – the Sébastien Ogier Edition and Kalle Rovanperä Edition – are only available at 100 units apiece, and only by lottery. More on that in a bit... Anyway, the GR Yaris facelift gleans on lessons learnt from the road, track, and dirt, which sees it gain more p

40 of Malaysia’s fastest simulator racers will gather this weekend for one final showdown for a shot at being crowned the Toyota Gazoo Racing GT Cup Malaysia champion. The three-day finale will take place at the Sunway Pyramid Mall Blue Concourse in Petaling Jaya with the quarter-final shoot-out scheduled for Friday (18 Aug). The top 20 racers will then move on to the semi-final on Saturday (19 Aug) to determine the best 10 racers who will advance to the final on Sunday (20 Aug). The schedule is

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. As th

It is no secret that I adore the Toyota GR Yaris. The little rally-bred homologation special captures hearts with its fiery 1.6-litre 3-cylinder turbo engine, bespoke AWD, and all-round ebullient character. So, watching one of these brilliant machines crash is indeed painful to watch. In the video below, we see some cars pounding an undisclosed track, when out of nowhere, a GR Yaris (with Estonian registration) flies into the scene with considerable speed, and full opposite-lock applied. Now, we

Launched very recently in Malaysia is the rally-bred 2020 Toyota GR Yaris. It is probably the most exciting car of 2020. While previously Toyota has mentioned that the the number of Toyota GR Yaris in Malaysia is less than 200, the exact number is still unknown, at least until today. The exact number is 127 units as confirmed by an Instagram post by Mutiara Motors - one of 5 GR Garage dealers allowed to sell the GR Yaris. Malaysia receives the highest allocation in the SEA region. Thailand only

It's here, it's angry and it's not going to be cheap: UMW Toyota Malaysia (UMWT) has launched the insane, fully-imported from Japan (CBU) 2020 Toyota GR Yaris in Malaysia through an online event barely half an hour ago, alongside the 2020 Toyota Vios GR Sport. 2020 Toyota GR Yaris price and variants Built on the Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA) platform, UMWT has brought in just one variant of the GR Yaris - but it comes with the Performance Pack. Good to know that the base-spec RS - a fron