RE: Toyota confirms UK pricing for new GR Yaris

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Twinair said:

ollie993 said:

I've had over 60 cars in my lifetime. Mostly performance cars. I own a GRY, and I can honestly say that pound for pound it is one of the top three driving experiences of all my cars and that includes a Gemballa 964. It is ridiculously planted, lightweight, seriously quick and practical. It is a motorsport car. To get anywhere near this level of engineering and focus in a car you are normally paying three times that price. It's most probaly worth the £13k price hike. If you drive one, and use it daily, it's a no brainer.

This I would definitely agree with Ollie.

We are up around the same amount of cars (60 odd) at this - or pretty much any price point up to around 3-4x the list of a GRY - I’ve not come across anything as capable as this.

Like you say - it’s a motorsport car.

Given my dodgy back these days - I even like the seat height! I couldn’t really get on with the GT4 and it’s carbon low slung bucket seats…

There is nothing about the GRY I don’t find fab tbh…

Off topic but the 981 seats in the GT cars are really superb IMO and I have a cracked back (L5). I've spent circa 15k miles so far in these seats and wouldn't trade them for anything else on the market. Granted getting in and out of them isn't the easiest (although there's a great "hand plant" method if anyone's interested which helps) but once in them and buckled/strapped in they provide hours of fantastic support.

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Been lucky enough to have driven the GRY on the Moloja pass from Switzerland into Italy on a cool spring morning on Alpin5's and it's got me hankering after one. Love the idea of the auto box for general DD work and in particular love the new grey exterior colour and the interior updates as well (SatNav and mirror placement look a big improvement). Much want.

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schaeffs said:

Twinair said:

ollie993 said:

I've had over 60 cars in my lifetime. Mostly performance cars. I own a GRY, and I can honestly say that pound for pound it is one of the top three driving experiences of all my cars and that includes a Gemballa 964. It is ridiculously planted, lightweight, seriously quick and practical. It is a motorsport car. To get anywhere near this level of engineering and focus in a car you are normally paying three times that price. It's most probaly worth the £13k price hike. If you drive one, and use it daily, it's a no brainer.

This I would definitely agree with Ollie.

We are up around the same amount of cars (60 odd) at this - or pretty much any price point up to around 3-4x the list of a GRY - I’ve not come across anything as capable as this.

Like you say - it’s a motorsport car.

Given my dodgy back these days - I even like the seat height! I couldn’t really get on with the GT4 and it’s carbon low slung bucket seats…

There is nothing about the GRY I don’t find fab tbh…

Off topic but the 981 seats in the GT cars are really superb IMO and I have a cracked back (L5). I've spent circa 15k miles so far in these seats and wouldn't trade them for anything else on the market. Granted getting in and out of them isn't the easiest (although there's a great "hand plant" method if anyone's interested which helps) but once in them and buckled/strapped in they provide hours of fantastic support.

I know what you mean about the seats, they really are ‘works of art’ visually - and for the main, the support is fantastic in them…

The hand plant method was my ‘go to’ also :-))

I have an old disc injury from the days of yoof - motorbike crash - the carbon seats in the GT cars are just ‘at that angle’ which aggravates that disc injury…!

Don’t get old and creaky - and be a less crap bike pilot when younger are my key takeaways…!!

GT4 was a lot of fun in the right conditions though… defo…

I am enjoying the four wheel drive on the GR though - especially since it seems like it’s NEVER going to stop raining ever again ffs…!!

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Twinair said:

I know what you mean about the seats, they really are ‘works of art’ visually - and for the main, the support is fantastic in them…

The hand plant method was my ‘go to’ also :-))

I have an old disc injury from the days of yoof - motorbike crash - the carbon seats in the GT cars are just ‘at that angle’ which aggravates that disc injury…!

Don’t get old and creaky - and be a less crap bike pilot when younger are my key takeaways…!!

GT4 was a lot of fun in the right conditions though… defo…

I am enjoying the four wheel drive on the GR though - especially since it seems like it’s NEVER going to stop raining ever again ffs…!!

Gotcha and understood on the angle it does put some right off. There is a kit to change the angle to "recline" a little which apparently makes a big difference, but haven't tried this so can't vouch for it.