GR Yaris Will you go for a GR Yaris Evo?

Will you go for a GR Yaris Evo?

  • Existing GRY owner - Definitely! Better is better!

    Votes: 2 3.5%

  • Existing GRY owner - Maybe. Let me see the deets

    Votes: 18 31.6%

  • Existing GRY owner - No, the standard is perfect/I want to own the original

    Votes: 31 54.4%

  • Not a GRY owner - Definitely! This is the car they should have made initially

    Votes: 4 7.0%

  • Not a GRY owner - Maybe. Let me see the deets

    Votes: 1 1.8%

  • Not a GRY owner - No chance, it's too small/too ugly/still doesn't do 0-60 in 3.2s

    Votes: 1 1.8%
  • Total voters
    57
No interest entirely because of the automatic box.

Hopefully a lot of parts will be interchangable. And if the center unit can be changed its possible wireless Android might be a retrofit
 
corroded said:
No interest entirely because of the automatic box.

Hopefully a lot of parts will be interchangable
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Don't think it'll be auto-only. The (admittedly fairly ropey) Japanese site did say it would be added as an option.
 
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To add auto box not the only thing. I'm expecting this one is going to come in at least 50k, and with current interest rates that's not flying for me.
 
Don't want auto and tbh this one will be so so so much more expensive than the 36k current one.
 
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Yeah, if Toyota have any sense they'll look at the new Civic Type-R and pitch it towards that price :(

How much would I be willing to pay for one though? Difficult to say.

Looking around, even the cheapest cars here are still around the RRP so I shouldn't take much of a hit. The dealers here rarely have them in so I imagine the trade-in would be good, but even so let's say they only give me €34k for it.

If the Evo is €45k then that's €11k to fund. Still an extra few hundred a month if you have to finance it, and at probably peak interest rates too.

If it's a keeper then over time that becomes irrelevant (look at TME values compared to vanilla VIs), but shorter term that money would be better spent on Öhlins, MoTeC etc. and you'd have a "better" car, just one that wasn't as valuable.
 
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What I'm interested in is what will Driving Aids look like in 2024? Can you still deactivate it completely? Does it always activate automatically? It's getting worse and worse and I hate driving now. With the GRY you could just about get around it all... but with the new one?
 
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Duke said:
Yeah, if Toyota have any sense they'll look at the new Civic Type-R and pitch it towards that price :(

How much would I be willing to pay for one though? Difficult to say.

Looking around, even the cheapest cars here are still around the RRP so I shouldn't take much of a hit. The dealers here rarely have them in so I imagine the trade-in would be good, but even so let's say they only give me €34k for it.

If the Evo is €45k then that's €11k to fund. Still an extra few hundred a month if you have to finance it, and at probably peak interest rates too.

If it's a keeper then over time that becomes irrelevant (look at TME values compared to vanilla VIs), but shorter term that money would be better spent on Öhlins, MoTeC etc. and you'd have a "better" car, just one that wasn't as valuable.
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A Yaris Evo wouldn't necessarily be equivalent to a TME though. If it does end up becoming a heavier car then that would clearly speak against it. In a scenario where the Yaris Evo would essentially end up as a "GRMN", I could see your point being precisely on the money.
 
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A Yaris Evo wouldn't necessarily be equivalent to a TME though. If it does end up becoming a heavier car then that would clearly speak against it. In a scenario where the Yaris Evo would essentially end up as a "GRMN", I could see your point being precisely on the money.
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I think it would be very much like a TME though.

It's likely to be just a slightly better, more refined (in terms of being a more developed product, not one that is smoother or quieter ;)) car, and will almost certainly be produced in much smaller numbers.

The ultimate factory version of the product, highly limited edition and much more expensive GRMN aside.

The TME didn't really offer much over a standard VI except the name, a different front bumper, some stickers, and a few minor mechanical tweaks to an already stellar formula.

It was no faster in real terms than basically any Evo, not the best looking (that was the III or the V, as every connoisseur knows ;)), but somehow it it now worth 30-50% more than a normal VI in equivalent age/condition.

I very much see a potential Yaris Evo as in the same bracket.

If they hadn't already punted out a fairly lame Rovanperä special edition...
 
Build your own! This is a car to be driven, used, abused and modified (even if only to iron out the little niggles).

An Evo is a nice idea and I’m sure in twenty years time, if you can still find places that are selling fuel, then this model will be the one that’s cherished the most. But how much you’ll get to cherish it remains to be seen.

Go enjoy the GRY’s you own and don’t fret about the FOMO on an Evo (if it materialises).
 
Let's wait and see what will come. And if this updated version comes to (continental) Europe at all thanks to EU legislations. As mentioned above by other users, I fear a severe price hike making the car unattractive compared to the current model.

Is the Civic Type R (which by its dimensions should be named Accord Type-R) selling well in Europe for that new price? I would spend the money on the predecessor and use the difference for a young MX-5 ND G184, for example.
 
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Probably not, my car is already the "Onehp Evo edition" and although there are probably improvements, they won't be game changers and not keen to redo (part) of the personal Evo treatment. Also the price likely not so nice and we have some nice taxes to add to that again...

Funny it's perhaps gonna be called Evo, because the later Evo's weren't necessarily better...
 
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