Have you ordered a Yaris GR ?

Have you ordered a Yaris GR ?

Poll: Have you ordered a Yaris GR ?

Total Members Polled: 142

Yes - standard spec : 5
Yes - Convenience Pack: 5
Yes - Circuit Pack: 92
NO - your having a laugh 30k for a Yaris!: 32
NO - heated Seats, for that reason I'm OUT : 1
NO - "Mange tout" no quality inter: 6
Pure White: 39
Precious Black: 7
Scarlet Flare: 20
Platinum Pearl white: 17
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C5L

Original Poster:

341 posts

207 months

Tuesday 17th November 2020
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Just curious as to whether

did you go for one, if so what colour and spec?

and if you did not.

Personally this car as James may once said " gives me a nice little fizzing sensation" haven't driven one yet mind.

Cheers beer


SweptVolume

1,091 posts

93 months

Tuesday 17th November 2020
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It's a shame that you can't have a decent stereo and satnav with all the limited slip diffs and performance bits. You have to choose, which reminds of car specs in the 1990s, when you could often have luxury equipment, or sporty components, but rarely both.

Condi

17,159 posts

171 months

Tuesday 17th November 2020
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Wow, out of 13 people, 8 have bought a Yaris GR.

Extrapolating that across the country 41.8m UK citizens are waiting for one.

jjr1

3,023 posts

260 months

Tuesday 17th November 2020
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White circuit pack ordered. Changed from my original choice of red and circuit pack.

C.A.R.

3,967 posts

188 months

Tuesday 17th November 2020
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SweptVolume said:
It's a shame that you can't have a decent stereo and satnav with all the limited slip diffs and performance bits. You have to choose, which reminds of car specs in the 1990s, when you could often have luxury equipment, or sporty components, but rarely both.
This does seem mad doesn't it? Has it ever been explained why you can't spec the car with both the 'Circuit' and 'Comfort' packs? In this instance 'Comfort' is probably better described as 'convenience' anyway!

carlove

7,557 posts

167 months

Tuesday 17th November 2020
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I actually really like it, and would order one but I can’t justify that sort of cost on a car, and if I could I’m not sure it’d be a Yaris.
I might keep an eye out on the used market in a couple of years.

w8pmc

3,345 posts

238 months

Tuesday 17th November 2020
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SweptVolume said:
It's a shame that you can't have a decent stereo and satnav with all the limited slip diffs and performance bits. You have to choose, which reminds of car specs in the 1990s, when you could often have luxury equipment, or sporty components, but rarely both.
Is also odd that you can't multi pack as i like the features of the Convenience Pack, however like the Circuit Pack more.

Saying that, very few nowadays use proprietary Sat-Nav &/or Audio as mobile phone base Waze & Google Maps have pretty much won the in-car Nav market & Spotify the in car Audio, so as long as the sound quality from the standard speakers is OK or better, then i'm happy.

jamesbilluk

3,685 posts

183 months

Tuesday 17th November 2020
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Pearl white circuit pack ordered (changed from red) The only thing I would like in the convenience pack is the HUD, I have one on my current car, and love it.

geeks

9,164 posts

139 months

Tuesday 17th November 2020
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I want one but sadly I just cant justify it.

Varelco

402 posts

63 months

Tuesday 17th November 2020
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I've been tempted but what puts me off is is it only enjoyable if you are 'on it'? Will there be any sense of occasion when you are driving normally as you do 90% of the time or will it just feel like you are in a regular Yaris with a low roofline? The dash is also borderline unforgiveable.


I will test drive one once the honeymoon period is over. At the minute there are far too many opinions stating how incredible is it by those who haven't even seen one in the flesh, let alone drive it.

resolve10

1,010 posts

45 months

Tuesday 17th November 2020
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Ticks a lot of boxes on paper, but the interior rules it out for me. I'm not even talking about quality of materials, I appreciate it's based on a Yaris and the money has (correctly) gone into the engineering, but would it hurt to have a bit more flair or colour to make it feel special?

KobayashiMaru86

1,167 posts

210 months

Tuesday 17th November 2020
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Been wanting Type-R for almost 3 years but had to get house first. Just moved into my first one so was back on the radar until this came along. It's very tempting, test drive needed, will be losing lots of space, coming from an Octavia vRS but these days I rarely carry rear passengers. As long as I can get a bike in with the wheel off that's fine.

Edited by KobayashiMaru86 on Tuesday 17th November 13:00

jonylightweight

20 posts

44 months

Tuesday 17th November 2020
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I may wait for the second edition that could have more options

Luke.

10,987 posts

250 months

Tuesday 17th November 2020
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KobayashiMaru86 said:
As long as I can get a bike in with the wheel off that's fine.

Edited by KobayashiMaru86 on Tuesday 17th November 13:00
Best of luck with that.

KobayashiMaru86

1,167 posts

210 months

Tuesday 17th November 2020
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Luke. said:
Best of luck with that.
Should be fine. Seen photos with 4 wheels, toolkit and helmet. Same as a GT86

C5L

Original Poster:

341 posts

207 months

Tuesday 17th November 2020
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C.A.R. said:
This does seem mad doesn't it? Has it ever been explained why you can't spec the car with both the 'Circuit' and 'Comfort' packs? In this instance 'Comfort' is probably better described as 'convenience' anyway!
I read somewhere it is to do with the wiring loom on uk RHD cars .

Also heard that it may have something to do with the way manufacturers have to pay for testing each car. Ie the more different specs they have to pay for each one to get tested.


TommoAE86

2,665 posts

127 months

Tuesday 17th November 2020
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C.A.R. said:
SweptVolume said:
It's a shame that you can't have a decent stereo and satnav with all the limited slip diffs and performance bits. You have to choose, which reminds of car specs in the 1990s, when you could often have luxury equipment, or sporty components, but rarely both.
This does seem mad doesn't it? Has it ever been explained why you can't spec the car with both the 'Circuit' and 'Comfort' packs? In this instance 'Comfort' is probably better described as 'convenience' anyway!
From one of the other threads it's emission laws, here you have to test every spec of car and it gets given a rating that you sell against. Therefore if you have individual options all permeations of that option list have to be tested and given a figure.

Someone said that in New Zealand you can get both packs together on the same car, must be the same in Japan too I would've thought.

Save Ferris

2,685 posts

213 months

Thursday 19th November 2020
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Just had the first of our orders arrive today!

anonymous-user

54 months

Thursday 19th November 2020
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That's promising Ferris.

Demo car or a customers?

Save Ferris

2,685 posts

213 months

Thursday 19th November 2020
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Sam.M said:
That's promising Ferris.

Demo car or a customers?
That one is a customers, ordered when the books opened in March