The Toyota GR Yaris is one of the most talked-about hot hatches to launch in the last decade and Doug DeMuro recently had the opportunity to test it out. Sadly, the GR Yaris is not sold in the United States so the example featured in this review is actually a Mexican model that the owner […]
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Our spy photographers sent us a set of pictures showing what looks like a Toyota Yaris with camouflaged badges inside a yard full of Mazda models. This leads us to believe that the pictured model isn’t actually a Yaris but its reported rebadged cousin, the 2023 Mazda2. The Mazda2 is due for a new generation […]
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The Toyota Yaris is a very popular supermini in Europe with its fourth generation being among the best sellers. The situation is quite different in India though, where Toyota decided to phase out the Yaris due to slow sales. As a reminder, the U.S. got a different kind of Yaris based on the Mazda2 that […]
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Sometimes, we’ll test a car that gets so under our skin that we think about it for months, if not years, after handing back the keys. The Toyota GR Yaris, perhaps surprisingly, was not one of those cars. We had the opportunity to test out the entry-level GR Yaris in Australia back in February and […]
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Toyota has been filmed putting the all-new hybrid Yaris WRC car through its paces as it prepares for the 2022 season. New for next year’s World Rally Championship season will be the introduction of hybrid powertrains for the first time. All cars competing with feature a 1.6-liter direct-injection turbocharged four-cylinder engine mated to an electric […]
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One year after the launch of the fourth-generation Toyota Yaris in Europe, the ECOVan variant appeared in Spain as a hybrid light commercial vehicle bringing more cargo space into the mix. From the outside, the Yaris ECOVan looks identical to the Japanese supermini that has been named the 2021 European Car of the Year – […]
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Since Mitsubishi canned its Lancer Evo almost a decade ago, the Subaru WRX STI has pretty much had the all-wheel drive rally replica market to itself. But Toyota’s little GR Yaris changed all that. The hot Yaris was created to homologate Toyota’s new WRC rally car, and though the company then decided to continue racing with […]
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Veteran automotive journalist Harry Metcalfe had the opportunity to drive the Toyota GR Yaris for the first time in January and he was so impressed that he quickly decided to order one of his own. Metcalfe was originally told that due to demand for the GR Yaris, he would have to wait until December to […]
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Toyota will pause production at two plants in Japan next month due to the ongoing semiconductor shortage. The car manufacturer has confirmed that it will suspend operations on three production lines at two Japanese factories. At the company’s Iwate factory, one production line for the C-HR will be shut down for a total of eight […]
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From the moment Toyota first announced the rally-bred GR Yaris, it was inevitable that a vast world of aftermarket options would open up for the potent hot hatch. Clearly, owners have wasted no time in starting to modify their new GR Yaris’s and this particular example from Germany is especially eye-catching. The first thing that […]
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