Wednesday 27th March

Toyota confirms UK pricing for new GR Yaris

£10k price rise for Toyota's hot hatch hero - and the special editions are £60k...

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Don’t say you weren’t prepared. It was always unlikely, however hard we hoped, that the new 280hp GR Yaris would stay priced at the current 261hp car’s level. Something nearer £40k seemed likely. We probably weren’t expecting this, however: the new GR Yaris is £44,250. 

That’s not speculation, either, or kitted out with every option; that’s the OTR price for a six-speed manual car. There isn’t a configurator yet, but obviously you can expect to pay more for particular paints and other add-ons. The intriguing eight-speed auto adds £1,500 to the RRP, meaning £45,750. And to think the Civic Type R seemed a lot. 

Toyota says that very few GRs will be available for 2024, with a process now in place ‘to help ensure fairness’ on allocation like it’s a track-only Ferrari. Basically, those who already have a turbo triple Yaris or who joined the waiting list before May 2022 will now be given the chance to enter a ballot to buy from the batch of 2024 cars. For a Toyota Yaris - still seems mad. More details are coming on that for buyers in May. 

That’s assuming they want a plain old GR, that is, because the UK will also be getting the Ogier and Rovanpera Editions. You can read all about those here, with the important extra detail today being that both will cost £60,000. One for the die-hards and collectors, then. Both are manual only, and numbers haven’t yet been confirmed. But don’t expect there to be very many. Despite the whopping price hike, Toyota reckons the GR will be ‘one of the most in-demand new cars of 2024’ - they probably aren’t wrong there. Expect the cars on the road later in the summer. And demand for those sub-£30k cars in the classifieds to soar…

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[fantheman80]

Not surprised at all and predicted it would start with a 4.

If it goes anything like the FL5, flippers will get one thinking the limited demand will mean people will pay a premium, only to see people wait for their allocation, and the dealers who do buy them back can’t shift them for toffee cos the pcp APR on second hand cars is Lilly savage, and after a year and a bit the limited supply isn’t that bad after all and you can get one with a dealer discount

Edited by fantheman80 on Tuesday 26th March 19:46

[fantheman80]

Still….could be worse, in France the base model will cost you £74,570 or 86k euros due to the c02 penalty I learnt about on these very pages recently

[fantheman80]

ecsrobin said:

Forester1965 said:

22% increase in price for a 7% increase in power.

Better than the TypeR isn’t it? Didn’t that get no increase in power yet a similar price increase?

The Fk8 to FL5 went from 316 to 326 bhp, and 295 to 310 Lb/ft, but its heavier so near enough identical performance - but went from 36K to 49K which raised a few eyebrows (ok more than a few) but vs everything else above and below it is about right sadly. You can now get a brand new one, in the colour you want, with a £1k discount. Who knows if the yaris will follow it in time