GR Yaris 👍 Positives - what do you love about the GR Yaris?

[Galerion]

Hello from the other side of the globe... Wow reading everyone's post has gotten me all excited for my GR Yaris.

I'm not sure if it's a good thing but it's the M2 which is a 2025 model that arrives in early April. There's a Precious Metal color in stock but I love my white.

Thinking out loud, after breaking in to go with a catless downpipe, intake and tune. What sort of gains can one expect with the three cylinder motor? Just worried about reliability and if the motors needs a rebuild with forged pistons etc?

Like I said thinking out loud.

MPS Engineering which are the go-to guys for Tuning the GR Yaris here in Germany are doing ~ 340 hp and 450 nm with a tune and downpipe. That's the safe level. After that you need to touch internals unless you like playing the lottery. MPS did 15000 km on a 400 hp stock block before it blew up

 

[MarkoS]

1. Moderate appetite, in grandfather mode 7.2 liters per 100 km.
2. Compact and powerful.
3. Does not consume oil.
4. Excellent suspension, like an iron on the road.
5. There is still room for luggage.
6. Warms up quickly in frosty weather.
7. Beautiful.
8. Excellent brakes.
9. Does not attract everyone's attention, and those in the know simply go crazy at the sight of this rocket.
10. Replaces coffee, you just need to drive on boost.
11.Toyota

Nice points! Personally, I have a feeling it takes ages to fully warm up. Oil is at 80+°C after at least 15mins of driving (using a 82°C thermostat plate for a small cooler), gearbox takes 20 mins to get to 40°C.

 

[Duke]

Nice points! Personally, I have a feeling it takes ages to fully warm up. Oil is at 80+°C after at least 15mins of driving (using a 82°C thermostat plate for a small cooler), gearbox takes 20 mins to get to 40°C.

Something sounds wrong. According to the what the ECU sees, my car, with standard cooling, gets to 80°C within about 6-7 mins.

 

[Ono]

Something sounds wrong. According to the what the ECU sees, my car, with standard cooling, gets to 80°C within about 6-7 mins.

I agree, mine reaches that type of temperature quite quickly too. However, I'm having a bug with the T° message atm. It never goes away, even when I reach more than 100°C

 

[Duke]

I use the Ecutek dashboard app to view it, I’m not relying on the stupid little bar thing in the car’s display!

 

[Navihaus]

Nice points! Personally, I have a feeling it takes ages to fully warm up. Oil is at 80+°C after at least 15mins of driving (using a 82°C thermostat plate for a small cooler), gearbox takes 20 mins to get to 40°C.

Compared to Toyota C-HR(4WD) with 1.2 turbo engine and Vitz-Yaris(4WD) with 1.3 engine, it warms up quickly.
Usually I warm it up to the first division on the sensor and drive smoothly until it warms up to the middle. And then you can use boost.
It's good that there are no restrictions on warming up cars.

 

[speeddemon666]

I have had mine a month now and it still only has 300 miles on it so I am just getting to know it. What I love about it though is it's pure form - it is unlike sooo many cars out there that are not really that accomplished but for their electronic modes. Out of the box the Yaris is just so well balanced in handling ability and power but I feel it delivers that in such an analogue fashion - it reminds me so much of an old DC2 I used to have - the brief at the design stage is just so evident because it's been achieved so well through real engineering.

 

[WRCHLG]

The fact that no one knows what it is unless they really know.

And if they really know, they will approach you with a passionate interest.

Quite often I get (because they are fairly rare here in NZ) “is that a real GR Yaris? Is it as good as they say?”. To which I always reply “absolutely it is”.