Toyota Is Officially Making A Hot Yaris To Give The Fiesta ST A Good Kicking
Despite the addition of a Lexus-inspired ‘Predator face’ during its last facelift, the Toyota Yaris is probably the least exciting small hatchback you can buy. The Ford Fiesta is the fun one da yoof will happily buy, whereas the Yaris is something you’d expect to see on your grandparents’ driveway.
However, the Yaris range is about to get a lot more exciting, thanks to a new Fiesta ST-rivaling hot hatchback which the Japanese company has just announced, teased with the sketch above. Now you’re talking, Toyota!
Although Toyota doesn’t really do much in the way of sporty cars - GT86 and F cars from luxury subsidiary Lexus aside - this isn’t as much of a surprise as you might think. In 2017 Toyota will enter the World Rally Championship using the spectacularly angry Yaris you can see above, which packs a 375bhp 1.6-litre turbocharged four-pot. In other words, fast and noisy things are firmly on the agenda. Toyota plans to distill this WRC lunacy into a road-going Yaris via motorsport team Gazoo, resulting in quite a potent little package.
Other than that, Toyota hasn’t revealed any substantial details. But, we can expect a similarly sized turbo four-pot under the bonnet, putting out somewhere in the region of 200bhp.
Would you have a hot Yaris over a hot Fiesta?
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Nice
Predicting the name: yarizard
Toyota yarizard listen carefully. You are a wizard lizard in a world of blizzard
That’d be an awesome plate if you had one in orange.
I have another name for it, spelled in Australian accent: Yarace (mate?)
They will probably call it the Toyota Yaris TRD.
Is there gonna be a crappy game tie in?
We don’t talk about that atrocity.
I’d buy one, easily.
If it had the 375 HP of the WRC car…
F yeah love the yaris
That wasn’t that unexpected, after all they have a WRC Yaris…
The general consensus is that they will only be releasing the street legal version of the WRC in Europe and won’t be bringing it to the US or Canada due to emissions, safety, etc.
Yes! But will it be in Indonesia?
That is the question.
Dat mirror
Is the wang big enough for Dr. Wang or FailRace?
Not quite. I’ll make up Alex’s mind for him xD
Does it come with the Blue Screen Of Death?
No, death comes in the form of an approaching tree in your windscreen.
#RallyLyf
Yes. since it has windows, I would assume so
depends what angle you fly into the lake at.
This is a Yaris, not a GTR.