Toyota Yaris GR4 4x4 Rally going into production.....

Chris1712 · 19 Nov 2020 at 15:54

Jester* said:
Just phoned my local dealership.

"Hi sir yes, we have sold a few already"
"Great can you let me know when you think you'll have a demonstrator in so I can have a good look after lockdown with a view to placing an order"
"No idea when we will have one and if you'd like to book a test drive you have to go through the Toyota website"

Get on the website to the test drive section and there is no option for the GR Yaris to book at all. They do make it hard to spend money sometimes.

I know someone who’s ordered from the Rayleigh, Essex dealer if that’s any use to you. Think all demonstrators are arriving basically now, with test drives once lockdown is lifted.

Jester* · 19 Nov 2020 at 16:58

Chris1712 said:
I know someone who’s ordered from the Rayleigh, Essex dealer if that’s any use to you. Think all demonstrators are arriving basically now, with test drives once lockdown is lifted.

Thanks for the heads up.

I am down in Ashford, i'd like to think one of the dealers around me should have one

Nasher · 19 Nov 2020 at 17:03

Toyota are saying £269 per month for the standard spec. That seems really cheap for a car like this. Less than a crappy 1 series.

OFC if you want to actually OWN it at the end, it's still quite expensive for a Yaris

Simon · 19 Nov 2020 at 17:10

Nasher said:
Toyota are saying £269 per month for the standard spec. That seems really cheap for a car like this. Less than a crappy 1 series.

OFC if you want to actually OWN it at the end, it's still quite expensive for a Yaris

With a £7k deposit!

Django x2 · 19 Nov 2020 at 17:19

Simon said:
With a £7k deposit!

Just have to work a few extra hours that week

Had my delivery slot confirmed as end of March, so my 21 plate gamble will hopefully have paid off.

Chris1712 · 20 Nov 2020 at 17:04

Bit much maybe...

Neil777 · 20 Nov 2020 at 17:48

Chris1712 said:
Bit much maybe...

The rear windows on these look so small there's no way Carlos Sainz would have been able to throw his crash helmet through it.

Nasher · 20 Nov 2020 at 18:23

Check the turbos for cheat devices too

adam cool dude · 20 Nov 2020 at 19:26

Neil777 said:
The rear windows on these look so small there's no way Carlos Sainz would have been able to throw his crash helmet through it.

Luis Moya did not Carlos and it was the rear window but meh.

Frozennova · 20 Nov 2020 at 19:55

Jonnycoupe said:
What engine is this the ? I keep seeing mention of tuning it, is there options already? Anything over 300bhp on a 1.6 triple strikes me as pretty high!

Aftermarket tuning is likely to be a slow burn with the GR4.

Very few of the usual suspects do much of anything with Modern Toyota ECUs, and they tend to be fairly unique in terms of processor compared to the likes of Subaru/Nissan etc.

Manufacturers and suppliers have been going quite extreme on making it difficult. Bosch rolled out changes in Q2 to some very low level code which has rendered Supra's amongst other things currently untunable

Neil777 · 20 Nov 2020 at 20:25

adam cool dude said:
Luis Moya did not Carlos and it was the rear window but meh.

You've a better memory than me, I meant the rear window.

Lopéz · 20 Nov 2020 at 21:05

Django x2 said:
WRX is synonymous with World Rallycross, not exclusively to Subaru, who just happened to homologate an Impreza with WRX in the name, so no, it's not associated solely with Subaru.

There were some WRC plates but none that brought in the GR name, so WRX was the next best thing.

World Rallycross didn't exist when the Impreza WRX was around. WRX is solely associated with Subaru, I've never heard of it being used by anybody else.

WRC is a different matter.

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 20 Nov 2020 at 21:31

Subaru claimed the name WRX stands for "World Rally eXperimental".

Nasher · 20 Nov 2020 at 21:55

Frozennova said:
Aftermarket tuning is likely to be a slow burn with the GR4.

Very few of the usual suspects do much of anything with Modern Toyota ECUs, and they tend to be fairly unique in terms of processor compared to the likes of Subaru/Nissan etc.

Manufacturers and suppliers have been going quite extreme on making it difficult. Bosch rolled out changes in Q2 to some very low level code which has rendered Supra's amongst other things currently untunable

The pen pushers like to think they own the ECUs inside people's cars and have a thing about 3rd parties messing with it.

OFC there isn't much they can do it about it in reality. If the demand is high enough it will get cracked eventually and people are allowed by law to tinker with it.

Alibaba99 · 20 Nov 2020 at 22:14

Django x2 said:
WRX is synonymous with World Rallycross, not exclusively to Subaru, who just happened to homologate an Impreza with WRX in the name, so no, it's not associated solely with Subaru.

There were some WRC plates but none that brought in the GR name, so WRX was the next best thing.

The logo for world rally cross is just RX.

Frozennova · 20 Nov 2020 at 22:50

Nasher said:
The pen pushers like to think they own the ECUs inside people's cars and have a thing about 3rd parties messing with it.

OFC there isn't much they can do it about it in reality. If the demand is high enough it will get cracked eventually and people are allowed by law to tinker with it.

They have every right to stop 3rd parties tampering, with drive-by-wire throttles, cruise control and all of the other modern features it's easy to screw things up in a manner that could kill someone.

And tampering with ECUs pays my bills I'm the opposite of biased

neocon · 20 Nov 2020 at 23:17

Apparently they are more powerful Toyota claims

https://www.carscoops.com/2020/11/t...more-powerful-than-toyota-claims-on-the-dyno/

Power to weight ratio must be better than a Golf R wouldn't you think?

Nasher · 21 Nov 2020 at 08:22

Understated performance seems to be a pretty normal thing with Toyota.

Jester* · 21 Nov 2020 at 09:20

Dropped my £250 deposit yesterday.

Red, Circuit Pack.

Vita · 21 Nov 2020 at 09:37

Out of everything that’s come out in recent times. This car has impressed me the most.

Look forward to everyone who gets one and the journey they have with them.