Yaris GR!!

Wack61

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Delmonte said:
It's a hatchback. It looks awful. It costs 40 grand.
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Depends if you want to drive it or be seen in it , I agree people won't look at it and think you're minted like they might if you're driving a 10k QP

it's 30-33k , 40k is the speculators hoping to find someone who wants one desperately enough.

Depreciation is likely to be very low and with a 10 year warranty and fixed price servicing at £500 per 12,000 miles it should be cheap to run, it'll even do around 40mpg cruising on the motorway

I appreciate it's not for everyone but I love it
 
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Wack61 said:
Depends if you want to drive it or be seen in it , I agree people won't look at it and think you're minted like they might if you're driving a 10k QP

it's 30-33k , 40k is the speculators hoping to find someone who wants one desperately enough.

Depreciation is likely to be very low and with a 10 year warranty and fixed price servicing at £500 per 12,000 miles it should be cheap to run, it'll even do around 40mpg cruising on the motorway

I appreciate it's not for everyone but I love it
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i've seen it in the flesh and must admit didn't look that great to me either, now if they did a limited run they could have become collectors pieces eventually and gone up in price eventually, rather like the Ford Focus RS500 that was pitched at 35k and now selling at 70/80k and that's if you can find one for sale
 
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lifes2short said:
i've seen it in the flesh and must admit didn't look that great to me either, now if they did a limited run they could have become collectors pieces eventually and gone up in price eventually, rather like the Ford Focus RS500 that was pitched at 35k and now selling at 70/80k and that's if you can find one for sale
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Originally it was going to be a limited run, not RS500 limited run, but the demand has been higher than expected and I've seen deliveries now quoted into 2023.
So they won't be as depreciation proof as many of the first adopters had possibly hoped.
 
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Mines a circuit pack, and the suspension probably isn’t as ‘track’ as you’d expect. It’s stiff, but still very compliant and not crashy at all, but I do agree that 99% of circuit pack owners won’t use the LSDs etc and bought that spec for pub bragging rights.

Regarding the numbers being made, they originally had to make 25k to homologate the car for WRC, but covid stopped them testing it and regs changes for the following year meant it won’t actually compete in this configuration in the WRC, because apparently the new cars have to be hybrid power train and have more space frame construction, so it will be similar but slightly different. No idea if this means they still have to sell the 25k to enable it to compete.
As well as that, next year they are bringing out a GR Corolla with the same drivetrain as they don’t sell the Yaris in the US. This will be made in the motomachi factory the same as the GR Yaris(& Lexus LFA!) at which point they’ll stop building the Yaris, so I don’t think exact numbers will be known until then. There’s speculation that as there is now a waiting list to order one, there won’t be any more new orders taken and that list is basically just to re allocate cancelled orders.

But if you’re like me, I didn’t buy it for residual values, rarity or any of that, it’s a daily, I’ve only washed it twice since June. I bought it because it’s stupidly fun to drive around in what is essentially an amazingly capable demonic roller skate on a daily basis. It’s not going to get you any looks, and it makes pretty much no noise, but on a good narrow B road there really isn’t much that will touch it, and it allows me to exploit roads I can’t in the GT, but between them I feel I’ve got all bases covered.
 
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Wack61 said:
Depends if you want to drive it or be seen in it , I agree people won't look at it and think you're minted like they might if you're driving a 10k QP

it's 30-33k , 40k is the speculators hoping to find someone who wants one desperately enough.

Depreciation is likely to be very low and with a 10 year warranty and fixed price servicing at £500 per 12,000 miles it should be cheap to run, it'll even do around 40mpg cruising on the motorway

I appreciate it's not for everyone but I love it
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Well I'd never choose a car so that people think I'm minted.... but a priority for me is design, I appreciate good design. It's why I like Italian cars so much. That thing just looks nasty, as shopping cars with body kits nearly always do. There's more to it than looks of course.... such things as v8 engines, nice interiors, great noise, comfort, driver-inspiration factor....
 
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Oneball said:
I think it looks fab and in a world where people pay six figures for a Range Rover it’s not daft money.
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It is daft money.
Sit in a six figure Rangie, then sit in a Yaris. Any sane person would accept that the Rangie is cracking value in comparison.
But of course, that doesn’t stop the Yaris being a hoot to drive.

(I can’t believe I’ve been suckered in to comparing a Rangie with a Yaris! Doh!)
 
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I do like a nice Range Rover I must admit but never spent more than £15,000 on one which was the last in New Zealand and it did everything I wanted perfectly.
It's a car myself and Ms French both miss.
With Winter on its way especially the heated steering wheel.
 
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Ewan said:
It is daft money.
Sit in a six figure Rangie, then sit in a Yaris. Any sane person would accept that the Rangie is cracking value in comparison.
But of course, that doesn’t stop the Yaris being a hoot to drive.

(I can’t believe I’ve been suckered in to comparing a Rangie with a Yaris! Doh!)
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I wasn’t comparing them directly only their relative price. In the late 80s a Range Rover was 3 times the price of an XR2.
 
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The GS Yaris is a pocket rocket no argument there but a modified secondhand Abarth 595 will push out similar power for less than quarter of the cost, OK no 4WD drive but in all but the most extreme cases does that really matter? And I know which I think looks better
 
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I'm on a few car forums, the only one where anyone has said anything negative about the GR Yaris is this one , I'd like to address that by saying, I couldn't care less, I ******* love it :D and I can see why people who've got a choice of cars on the drive walk past them to get in it
 
Ewan

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Well, I’d definitely walk past a Smart car to get in a Yaris, I’ll give you that!

But seriously, I don’t think anyone on here doubts that it’s an amazing piece of kit. Just not everyone’s cup of tea with regards to style or panache. It’ll certainly provide you with heaps of fun (as my Westfield does for me), and that’s what really counts. So let rip, and enjoy!
 
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