GR Yaris (Gen 2) GR Yaris Mk2 (MY2024->)

[GRavy_Baby]

I've asked two journalists who tested new GR Yaris yesterday from our region and both said it's an ok automatic. Nobody has been blown away as expected, but they said it's not a gearbox which they would mind having. One complained about cheap plastic flappy paddles (I think this will be first upgrade most people do).

I ordered Automatic. Am I worried that I made a wrong choice? Yeah.
Why I ordered automatic:
- I have another manual sports car
- I plan to use GR for daily stuff (I don't really commute but there will be a need to do kindergarten and shop runs)
- Hopefully a lot better for highway use (8th gear)

I’d recon that it’ll be an absolute blast to drive. Gives you more opportunities to pull that handbrake & wrestle the steering. The transmission also has a TCU that can probably be remapped if the design made room for improvement

 

[markku]

No, its perfect .

Children just want to have fun

 

[sandervdw]

bad news

 

[Euge]

bad news

That's a bit more involved than the mk1. It soon becomes muscle memory. Half the time I can't be arsed and leave everything on until the lane assist or stop start annoys me.

 

[Ecsrobin]

bad news

I’ve watched 5-10 reviews from the Belgium/France event yet haven’t seen a single English review were they invited or do we think there’s an embargo?

 

[Analika]

At the end he is mentioning in 2026 toyota has to make changes at the car due to "homologation".
Does anybody know what he is referring to?

 

[Ecsrobin]

At the end he is mentioning in 2026 toyota has to make changes at the car due to "homologation".
Does anybody know what he is referring to?

2026 is the next big rule change for WRC wether that impacts them for homologation I’m unsure.

 

[Sam]

2026 is the next big rule change for WRC wether that impacts them for homologation I’m unsure.

This was my first thought. They've declared the GR will become a regular model inferring it'll get continued small evolutions, I assume some changes will be to suit both the needs of and regulations governing the rally car.

 

[markku]

bad news

Well, about the ADAS, it's slightly better than in my worst nightmares.
Going to Settings and pushing 4 times the ok button takes almost the same time I wasted for the "button dance" while starting my current Mk1.
We've got ISA added, but it really looks like we have been spared the automatic engine turn-off/on.
I think this way it's a bearable annoyance.

Happy to hear (for anyone who ordered it) that the auto gear works very well, even for the reviewer who was maybe the most critique about it.
Maybe it could be that Jarama was particularly well suited for the GR auto gear, but I'm now pretty sure that it's really just a matter of personal taste.
Both manual and auto GRYs are fantastic cars, only in slightly different ways.

 

[Analika]

I can confirm. Tried the "turn off" Szenario in the New RAV at my local dealer. Same display, same Procedere. Its quite quick, so just semi-annoying

 

[OCQ]

At the end he is mentioning in 2026 toyota has to make changes at the car due to "homologation".
Does anybody know what he is referring to?

Not, is a new homologation euro for CEE.

 

[Michael Knight]

Good review. much more insight than in previous ones. Lots' of technical improvements in mk2. Maybe I should ask a quote - just 2 months too late (as with Mk1)

 

[Greenthumb]

I can confirm. Tried the "turn off" Szenario in the New RAV at my local dealer. Same display, same Procedere. Its quite quick, so just semi-annoying

And here we are again with the different opinions...... I feel it so different. In my household, a brand new Corolla GR Sport Hybrid was banished to the eternal confines of the garage, nobody wants to drive it because of this annoying procedure. Yes, we are incredibly lazy pigs, but that's just the way it is.

So now without exaggeration. The Corolla is only used for journeys over 100km, because of the bing bing and dong dong....and that's getting on my nerves so much I could blow up the car. I'm starting to think I have a tendency towards misophonia. For city traffic and quick trips or my daily commute, it's just too stupid for me to click through all that crap every time, as I often have journeys where I have to turn the engine off 5 times before I get home. And the sad thing is, the car was actually designed for something like city traffic....

For all those who think that's OK, great, then it doesn't affect you. But for me, and maybe there are a handful of other crazy people out there, we can only hope that a dongle or something similar comes out at some point, otherwise I'm completely out for the Car-Future.

 

[Michael Knight]

And here we are again with the different opinions...... I feel it so different. In my household, a brand new Corolla GR Sport Hybrid was banished to the eternal confines of the garage, nobody wants to drive it because of this annoying procedure. Yes, we are incredibly lazy pigs, but that's just the way it is.

So now without exaggeration. The Corolla is only used for journeys over 100km, because of the bing bing and dong dong....and that's getting on my nerves so much I could blow up the car. I'm starting to think I have a tendency towards misophonia. For city traffic and quick trips or my daily commute, it's just too stupid for me to click through all that crap every time, as I often have journeys where I have to turn the engine off 5 times before I get home. And the sad thing is, the car was actually designed for something like city traffic....

For all those who think that's OK, great, then it doesn't affect you. But for me, and maybe there are a handful of other crazy people out there, we can only hope that a dongle or something similar comes out at some point, otherwise I'm completely out for the Car-Future.

maybe the blings are required so that you get noted to get your sight from phone while driving - sad but quite common to see in traffic nowadays. People are just plain stupid when driving. And it is getting worse.

 

[Greenthumb]

maybe the blings are required so that you get noted to get your sight from phone while driving - sad but quite common to see in traffic nowadays. People are just plain stupid when driving. And it is getting worse.

I never have my phone in my hand in the car. I have no Whatsapp, no Insta, no Facebook, no Tiktok, absolutely nothing. I am so incredibly unimportant and uninteresting that I can still concentrate fully on driving .

 

[AlphaDelta]

Given the push back in this from customers I wonder if future rule updates will relax the annoying aids or allow for some form of custom settings to make turning them off easier. If that happens an entire generation of cars in the second hand market will lose value as you’ll have a group of cars built in the next few years which will be uniquely annoying to run.

Btw not talking about GRY I’m thinking more about mass market options. Ie Why pick up a 2024 Ford focus when a 2022 version is fairly similar and nowhere near as annoying.

 

[Humptydumptyhadabigone]

I never have my phone in my hand in the car. I have no Whatsapp, no Insta, no Facebook, no Tiktok, absolutely nothing. I am so incredibly unimportant and uninteresting that I can still concentrate fully on driving .

Me three!

 

[markku]

maybe the blings are required so that you get noted to get your sight from phone while driving - sad but quite common to see in traffic nowadays. People are just plain stupid when driving. And it is getting worse.

You sure got a point. I use my cars mostly for highway travels (in town I use feet or public transports) and recently my travels has more and more become an horror story because too many cars (and now even trucks!!) have erratic and unpredictable behavior, like suddenly moving out of lane, slowing down abruptly, and something like this.
In the past, having quite some mileage and experience traveling by car, I was quite good at predicting what cars could cause some trouble judging by some subtle hints coming from observing them before overtaking them.
Now I'm always utterly surprised by what the suddenly do, and I get home with a very huge number of frightening scares in my bag.
And anytime you look into the got-crazy car you always always always (3 times) see the driver doing something with their phone, even when there is a passenger at their side that could check the phone on behalf of them!
It's outrageous... what is so urgent on your phone to make you take (and cause) risks like that??
It's so true that people stupidity is the only infinite thing in this world.

 

[markku]

Given the push back in this from customers I wonder if future rule updates will relax the annoying aids or allow for some form of custom settings to make turning them off easier. If that happens an entire generation of cars in the second hand market will lose value as you’ll have a group of cars built in the next few years which will be uniquely annoying to run.

Btw not talking about GRY I’m thinking more about mass market options. Ie Why pick up a 2024 Ford focus when a 2022 version is fairly similar and nowhere near as annoying.

I agree with you, and I'd also add the huge number of risky false positives that these systems will always produce among the reasons for removing some of them in the future.
Since it's a software thing, I guess manufacturers will just apply a patch to the car software to turn definitely off the systems that will cause more risk or annoyance than an actual help to the driver.
The only sure and damn thing is that the cost of repairing the frontal section of a car is already skyrocketing to insane levels, among cams, radars, sensors...

 

[sandervdw]

I’ve watched 5-10 reviews from the Belgium/France event yet haven’t seen a single English review were they invited or do we think there’s an embargo?

Considering the order the reviews are coming out, I'm guessing they are inviting media per country. All the Spanish reviews were first, then German, then Polish and Dutch. So I'm guessing UK press still needs to get invited to France.