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

The GR looks amazing

If someone had turned up on the forum last year, having spent £35k modding a Yaris up to this spec...... they would have been laughed off the forum :D Yet, it's so popular it's probably sold out and with 'Racing Drivers' rushing to Social Media to announce it's the best car for a long time.
 
SDK^ said:
The GR looks amazing

If someone had turned up on the forum last year, having spent £35k modding a Yaris up to this spec...... they would have been laughed off the forum :D Yet, it's so popular it's probably sold out and with 'Racing Drivers' rushing to Social Media to announce it's the best car for a long time.
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That's a valid point, and whilst anything is possible given enough money, it would have been way more than £30k to tune up a standard Yaris to this level. It shouldn't be a surprise to know that Toyota will be making a loss on every one of these cars, which is why they're more likely to stick to limited production. If you believe everything you read, the separately provisioned hand cranked assembly line adds 10 hours to the build process.
 
SDK^ said:
The GR looks amazing

If someone had turned up on the forum last year, having spent £35k modding a Yaris up to this spec...... they would have been laughed off the forum :D Yet, it's so popular it's probably sold out and with 'Racing Drivers' rushing to Social Media to announce it's the best car for a long time.
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They'd still be laughed at I think. The only way to modify a std Yaris to this spec would be to throw it away and start from scratch. It's not possible :). THis is where it differs from something like a Fiesta ST I think. I'm sure I read recently it takes 10xlonger to build the GR Yaris than a std one. Roofline is lower by 10cm i think so doesnt even look the same. Extra spot welds and bonding from near beginning of build process to add to structural rigidity/torsional stiffness of the chassis&body
 
It isn't really a Yaris, only in name. Even the body panels are different.

But yea, you will to tell people you a Yaris. Then try and explain to non-petrolhead badge snobs that it's a special Yaris, which cost 30 grand :p
 
I think this is the pocket rocket reborn.

SDK^ said:
The GR looks amazing

If someone had turned up on the forum last year, having spent £35k modding a Yaris up to this spec...... they would have been laughed off the forum :D Yet, it's so popular it's probably sold out and with 'Racing Drivers' rushing to Social Media to announce it's the best car for a long time.
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They would have wasted £35k and I bet it still wouldn’t have had 3 doors. I remember when Ecosse used to do that to Peugeot’s mind you.

This firstly has proper engineering behind it and likely to hold value really well.
 
Bristol are getting their demonstrator early-mid December apparently. Signed up to have a go, we'll see. I can't really justify having another car alongside the 4C but something about it is just fascinating me.

Pearl doesn't seem to touch the GFV which is a shame. Hard to predict the residuals really, if it actually hits that GFV then I'm out ~£650 a month is ludicrous sum of money for this car.
 
One of the things that interests me most about this car is the tuning potential. Add to that the fact that the normal/sport/track switch is probably electronically managed, means some potential coding tweaks could give you options to change the power distribution (if you so desired :D)
 
Some further thoughts....

There's a less hot version available in Japan which also goes towards the Homologation quota of 25,000 (promising, means their may be less GR overall)
https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/toyota/32741087.html

This page suggests 1,100 / month sales volume (global, not good)
https://toyotagazooracing.com/gr/yaris/grade/

Not sure how the UK stacks up, but I would guesstimate ~20% total? The dealer told me ~700 UK cars 2020, ~1500 in 2021. So let's say in 2 years time there's 3000 on the road, that sounds like a LOT to me? I've never financed a car before and I'm just terrified of the residuals so trying to get a feel.

A close analogue I can find is the i30n. Similar segment, launched with huge journo & YouTube praise but now has kind of melted into the background. They launched at £29500 I believe, and are now trading around the £20k mark so 33% in 2 years! GULP. If the Yaris GR did the same we're talking ~£22k trade in 2 years which is £480 a month depreciation which is absolutely bonkers. You can get some very serious metal for that money. Maybe I've bitten off more than I can chew here!

I know everyone's going to start blabbing about 'Just enjoy it, you can't think of cars as investment' but we all have a budget don't we? Only a straight up millionaire would be flippant about these things imo.
 
Chris1712 said:
Not sure how the UK stacks up, but I would guesstimate ~20% total? The dealer told me ~700 UK cars 2020, ~1500 in 2021. So let's say in 2 years time there's 3000 on the road, that sounds like a LOT to me? I've never financed a car before and I'm just terrified of the residuals so trying to get a feel.
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3,000 is not a lot of cars. Vauxhall and Ford sold nearly 4,000 Corsas and Fiestas each respectively in the UK in October 2020 alone. I know they aren't exactly comparable but just to give you an idea.
 
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Not being funny, but if you only lost £9k in 2 years on any new car, you'd be doing really well. You can't think of this car 2, 3, 4 or 5 years. If you do, then it's any other car and you drive it, run it, sell it, as per any other car. If you want history, it's 10-30 years and then you've possibly got something worth holding onto.

3000 of one type of car on UK roads within 2 years is incredibly low.
 
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