GR Yaris What did you do to your GR Yaris today?

Funky said:
Thank Arnold Clark for mine going to Glasgow, when I live near Aberdeen...

Glad that Park's are opening a Toyota dealer up here now though.
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Should have checked My Toyota before posting - car arrived at Paisley yesterday.
Now to harass AC to get it to me sharpish!
 
I look at it through the window, and then decide I'm not mentally prepared enough to cope with the visit to the petrol station.

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Funky said:
Thank Arnold Clark for mine going to Glasgow, when I live near Aberdeen...

Glad that Park's are opening a Toyota dealer up here now though.
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Have AC lost the Toyota Franchise throughout Scotland?
 
Funky said:
Thank Arnold Clark for mine going to Glasgow, when I live near Aberdeen...

Glad that Park's are opening a Toyota dealer up here now though.
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is there an update on this?

when i collected in March, they mentioned the change - but no timeline
 
peeler said:
Let some pressure out of my tyres for my 1st trackday tomorrow, really looking forward to seeing what it can do 😎
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what did you end up settling on?

I thought i would try hot pressures the same as manufacturer cold pressures?
 
Signed off the dry summer set-up on a nice drive. I'm very pleased, so much fun.

Don't bite me but for non-track driving, I find the GRY a bit boring, so much grip and, relatively, not so much grunt or fun revving out and faltering response esp. with heat soak. Not so fun straight, objectively very fast on a twisty road, the pace to have fun is a bit worrying... These are criticism that can be raised to most modern, overtyred and turbocharged, performance cars...

Anyway, my solutions are less grip and some engine finetuning with mostly hardware.

Inspired by low grip (for today's standards) high revving 'rallye' fun cars from the past...
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ehath28 said:
Hopefully that means mine is a day or two behind!
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Mine to, down here in the south of England, I've seen two car transporters down here full of Toyota cars and most cars were of the Yaris size. So hopefully we will have some very happy forum members very soon
 
Onehp said:
Inspired by low grip high revving 'rallye' fun cars from the past...
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I have to say having owned a few hot hatches in the 90's it wasn't the lack of grip that made them "playful".; they had loads for the amount of power they had. The Rallye above was only 100-120bhp.

What they did have was hydraulic (or in some cases unassisted) power steering and lightness (easily less than 900Kg). This led to driving feel and quickness of reactions that you just won't get with the modern car.

If you are trying to get the GRY to handle close to those cars I'm afraid you're out of luck unless you can lose about 300Kg and 4WD. The closest you'll get these days is perhaps a Clio 182.

Enjoy the Yaris for what it is because back when the 106 Rallye was around the equivalent to the GRY in terms of weight and power was a Honda NSX (1370Kg 270bhp).
 
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