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

Ecsrobin said:
I used launch control for the first time yesterday after running it in. I was surprised how smooth it was compared to an aggressive launch in the manual to get a good time.

Expert mode > foot on brake > pull back both pedals > countdown box appears on display, foot on accelerator > release before the box shrinks on the display.
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Have not used it yet myself, although 7500 km already :ROFLMAO:
 
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Michael Knight said:
great summary! what I liked in mk2 is the great response from turbo in mid range. feels like boost management is improved, that affects the power pickup. in WOT and high revs its does not make maybe much difference but in slow/mid speed driving it can be easily felt.
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Yes, it's exactly like you said.
Not much difference in higher revs, but quite stronger in the lower part of the curve.
I need to get used to this to get the best out of this engine , instead of driving it like my old Mk1... đŸ˜…
 
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Waiting for me at the dealership đŸ¥°
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I had an Akrapovic exhaust with link pipe on my gen 1 for about 300 miles before I was offered a gen 2 so I reverted it back to stock, I found the back box a little loud in residential areas so didn’t plan to use it and sold it on but did want to OPF delete once I’d run it in but just test fitted the Akrapovic link pipe and it definitely doesn’t fit. They’ve made numerous changes…. Like an iPhone case doesn’t fit any other model than the one it was purchased for.

The flange onto the Cat is now 10mm wider but the pipe is still the same diameter (2.75inch) also there’s a few more kinks in the new one than the old one, the old one was more direct. The hanger points are exactly the same and the tunnel is wide enough for it to be more direct but you can see they’ve designed the heat shield differently
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I did ~600km from new, still running it in.
It goes like hell, hard to stay under 4000rpm. It's very lovely to drive and gotta love 3500rpm at 200kmh in 8th gear, it's an amazing car to smash distances.
I got it sideways few times on very slippy asphalt very close to my house, it's a beast.

I must say I was skeptical of my choice of auto-box, but not anymore. Wouldn't want it any other way.

The only complaint with the gearbox is that if you are not in manual mode it tends to take your flappy paddle inputs only as suggestion, for example:
You are in 6th gear. You press upshift. It shows D7 on screen, but gear still shows at 6. Press again, goes to D8, still in 6th gear.. What the hell.. the RPMs are not too low to refuse shift. Press downshift at that point, goes from D8 directly to 5th gear. I don't even understand what does it want.

I would love if it just threw you into manual mode for 20s or so after pressing shift paddles.
 
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Inversed said:
I did ~600km from new, still running it in.
It goes like hell, hard to stay under 4000rpm. It's very lovely to drive and gotta love 3500rpm at 200kmh in 8th gear, it's an amazing car to smash distances.
I got it sideways few times on very slippy asphalt very close to my house, it's a beast.

I must say I was skeptical of my choice of auto-box, but not anymore. Wouldn't want it any other way.

The only complaint with the gearbox is that if you are not in manual mode it tends to take your flappy paddle inputs only as suggestion, for example:
You are in 6th gear. You press upshift. It shows D7 on screen, but gear still shows at 6. Press again, goes to D8, still in 6th gear.. What the hell.. the RPMs are not too low to refuse shift. Press downshift at that point, goes from D8 directly to 5th gear. I don't even understand what does it want.

I would love if it just threw you into manual mode for 20s or so after pressing shift paddles.
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Agreed if you then switch to manual mode it actually suggests you need to shift up. I suspect some of it is reconfiguring our brains to how it drives rather than how we think we should drive. But I’m very happy with the auto as it’s made the boring bits (the commute) simple and easy yet I can still be involved when it comes to the fun.
 
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Inversed said:
I would love if it just threw you into manual mode for 20s or so after pressing shift paddles.
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The German brands do this very well. Although sometimes I find it doesn’t stay in manual long enough but any longer you can just ping it into manual.
 
Dave9202 said:
The German brands do this very well. Although sometimes I find it doesn’t stay in manual long enough but any longer you can just ping it into manual.
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Yeah, there are a couple of half kilometre tunnels near me with 90 km/h limits and I will drop a gear to slow the car down. Ideally it would stay in that gear so I can accelerate optimally when clear of the tunnel but no, the Audis and Skodas I've had will always revert back to D about 50 m before the end of the tunnel đŸ¤¬
 
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Ecsrobin said:
Another quirk with the auto (or is it more efficient) had a go with eco mode because someone has to try it.

Eco stays in 7th gear cruising on the motorway, normal mode uses 8th.
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I find it doesnt matter much which mode you use, for my car it uses 7th up to 100 km/h(95 km/h real speed) on the dash, after it is able to hold 8th gear on its own, so i have to drive 5 km/h over legal limit to hold 8th on my comute :ROFLMAO: It did behave interestingly on my Poland trip, it did not want to go up to 8th, especially around 130-140 km/h, towards the second half of the trip it had learned this speed though and it was no longer an issue, but at the start i had to like lower the cruise speed like 5 km/h less so it would decelerate, and and then it would switch to 8th, on much lower of higher speeds it was not an issue, and this behaviour was also visible on straights, not only uphill as one might think. But the car learned and this was only happening one way on the trip.
 
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Inversed said:
I did ~600km from new, still running it in.
It goes like hell, hard to stay under 4000rpm. It's very lovely to drive and gotta love 3500rpm at 200kmh in 8th gear, it's an amazing car to smash distances.
I got it sideways few times on very slippy asphalt very close to my house, it's a beast.

I must say I was skeptical of my choice of auto-box, but not anymore. Wouldn't want it any other way.

The only complaint with the gearbox is that if you are not in manual mode it tends to take your flappy paddle inputs only as suggestion, for example:
You are in 6th gear. You press upshift. It shows D7 on screen, but gear still shows at 6. Press again, goes to D8, still in 6th gear.. What the hell.. the RPMs are not too low to refuse shift. Press downshift at that point, goes from D8 directly to 5th gear. I don't even understand what does it want.

I would love if it just threw you into manual mode for 20s or so after pressing shift paddles.
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So it has theretical high speed of 400km/h? In early Toyota gearbox ratio illustrations the auto box did not appear to be that high overdriven but maybe they've put longer gearing to help in emissions?
 
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