Over the weekend on the Tokyo Auto Salon, Toyota confirmed it is not completed making frequent, substantive evolutions to its super-hot GR Yaris hatchback that solely simply turned three years outdated. Demonstrating the theme of “Making ever-better motorsports-bred vehicles,” the automaker introduced three new variations to the present.
The “Excessive-performance・Sébastien Ogier Version Idea” and GR Yaris RZ “Excessive-performance・Kalle Rovanperä Version Idea” had been developed with the enter of Toyota’s WRC drivers. The variations are largely beauty, but it surely’s the primary time we have seen two champions’ takes on the identical software; Ogier received the WRC crown in 2021, Rovanpera received the WRC title in 2022. Past that duo, the “GR Yaris Rally2 Idea” is a prototype constructed to Rally2 spec for privateer and buyer groups to run the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC).
Ogier’s GR Yaris provides a bigger rear stabilizer and blue brake calipers, and is available in a particular bi-tone of shiny silver with black accents on the doorways. The cabin’s received particular crimson, white, and blue stitching on the steering wheel, and the 4WD mode selector unlocks management programming unique to this trim. Rovanpera’s GR Yaris goes with a revised rear wing and unnamed aerodynamic components, crimson brake calipers, and is wearing a crimson, white, and grey camo sample. Blue and silver stitching adorn the steering wheel, shifter boot, parking brake deal with, and seats, and the 4WD mode programming displays Rovanpera’s enter. Each vehicles function uprated torque of 287 pound-feet. They will go on sale in Japan quickly, Toyota is contemplating placing the title of each purchaser on the WRC race vehicles to indicate that the shoppers “are our companions in competing within the WRC.”
The GR Yaris Rally2 Idea has one other yr of testing forward. The race division will enter it into the Japanese Rally Championship to proceed growth, and goals to finish homologation by January 2024.
Lastly, for the house owners who need to go their very own method, a wider vary of GR Yaris efficiency components are headed to the GR Storage shops in Japan beginning later this month. Low-key mods embody a brand new steering wheel, light-weight shift knob, parking brake lever, and full bucket seats. Hardcore stuff features a set of track-focused GR shocks and a carbon fiber rear stabilizer. Gadgets like a carbon fiber hood, NACA ducts, and a chilly air consumption dwell in between.
We are able to solely hope Toyota will present the GR Corolla as a lot love — the present show included a GR Corolla Aero Idea, too. We most likely have a greater shot at getting a number of the new GR components introduced for the GR86 that will probably be launched in Japan in March, just like the aerodynamic nostril cone, rear V brace, and aerodynamic door mirror fins.