Our collective hats here at PD have been well and truly taken off to the team at Powertune Australia, who have managed to extract supercar power figures from Toyota’s 1.6-litre turbocharged three-cylinder. The GR Yaris, named the ‘Rodent’, was commissioned for the founder of Rode Microphones, Peter Freedman – obviously […]
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Toyota Yaris hits 10 million global sales milestone
Toyota has announced that its pint-sized Yaris hatchback has joined an exclusive club within the company after it hit a milestone of 10 million global sales. It’s an honour that the Yaris shares with five other Toyota vehicles that have been able to record sales figures exceeding eight figures, along […]
Toyota Australia re-opens order book for GR Yaris, 160 units coming
With Toyota struggling to keep up with demand for its manic little GR Yaris hot hatch, the company has announced that the order books have been re-opened for 160 units coming to Australia over the next 12 months. Toyota was forced to put a pause on orders for the GR […]
Toyota’s Kinto factory offers torque boost for GR Yaris in Japan
Owners of the outlandish little GR Yaris in Japan can now contact Toyota’s Kinto skunkworks for a software update that adds everything from a sizable boost in torque, through to steering tweaks and added throttle response. The upgrade is known as the ‘GR Yaris Performance Software 2.0’ software update, which […]
2022 Toyota GR Yaris Rallye review
While the past decade has been relatively quiet for Toyota’s performance vehicle lineup, the GR Yaris has fast become an instant classic. Does the Rallye edition prove the Japanese company also has a strong appetite for the hardcore end of the market? The introduction of the GR Yaris nameplate has […]
Toyota testing automatic transmission in GR Yaris, for GR Corolla?
Interested in buying a Toyota GR Yaris but can’t drive manual? Well, there might be hope for you as Toyota is toying with an automatic transmission conversion in the popular hot hatch. And we mean that literally. Toyota is testing a special rally-prepped GR Yaris in Japan featuring with an […]
2022 Toyota GRMN Yaris revealed as hardcore, motorsport-ready special edition
This is it. The 2022 Toyota GRMN Yaris. It’s an even more hardcore version of the already-hot GR Yaris. Production is being limited to 500 units. The new model made its debut today at the Tokyo Auto Salon, showing off the tuning and motorsport potential of the compact hot hatch. […]
Hydrogen Toyota Corolla Sport 1.6T racer now matches GR Yaris engine
Toyota has been working tirelessly at perfecting its Corolla Sport hydrogen-fuelled 1.6 turbo powertrain and says its latest design now matches the power output of the original GR Yaris petrol engine. We reported earlier this year that Toyota was testing the feasibility of a hydrogen-fuelled combustion engine, after it was […]