Amazing Toyota GR Yaris GRMN timed on track and 0-60mph

here I have every single Garis ever made, the original, which is the one I have, then the Japanese only

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, only 500 of these were made, then we have the new Garis, this is the manual version and this is the automatic , then we have two special limited editions. ramp and the OA only 200 of each of these will be built now in this video I'm going to compare all of these cars to see what they are like to drive. Yes, I

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them on a circuit, oh, let's see what happens to them. I'll decide which one is the best.

I'm my Watson and you're watching carwow. To compare these cars, I need to start from the beginning and the first generation Garis released in 20120, has a 1.6 L 3-cylinder turbo engine. In Japanese specification it has 272 horsepower and 370 NT M A system Switchable all-wheel drive with Torsen lsds front and rear and a six-speed manual gearbox so you know that the European versions of the Giis have a little less power and torque because they are equipped with gasoline. particulate filters to pass strict European emissions regulations. I'm going to test it at Toyota's newly opened Shimoyama proving ground. This 5km route has been designed to put a car through the same kind of stress as the Nurburg Ring, only it's a liter on the scale, I mean this thing just opened and no one has filmed on it before learning the

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in the original GIS because I am familiar with this car and I will also re-familiarize myself with this before entering the other car, so I have this as a baseline for comparison.

Oh yeah, there are a lot of twists and turns and elevation changes right away, going up a hill, going down a hill on some crazy corners, this is a crazy circuit, there are a lot of sections to really test a car and this particular one gets a little bit complicated because it gets tighter and tighter. Oh, that's good about the nimble little GI Yaris. I love this car to fully understand how Toyota has improved the Garis. We need something. reference data, so now let's time the old car on a hot lap around a short driving circuit with the help of endurance racer and gr development driver, hero masah Sasaki, okay, so here we go the fastest lap in the original gr yarus, starting the stopwatch now.

I can feel the four wheel drive system looking for grip oh m oh dude it's not holding back wow it's obviously got all the driving aids off here we go here we go here we go what time is it going to be whoa 4281 that's the baseline time for the giis now let's try a launch to time the car from n to 100 km aka n to 62 mph 3 2 1 looks good yeah around 5.36 now we get to the gr Yaris Gazoo racing Meister of the nurburg ring or

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for In short, its carbon roof is exposed and joined by a carbon rear spoiler and carbon bonnet, as well as having less soundproofing and no rear seats, it saves 20kg over standard cars. 1280kg curb weight, there is also increased rigidity through additional spot welds and more bonding to the chassis at the rear. strut bar stiffer billstein adjustable shock absorbers Springs a 10mm lower ride height wider wheels Revised front and rear bumpers for an improved Arrow a retuned all-wheel drive system mechanical instead of tor some differentials a ratio gearbox closed a heavy-duty clutch recalibrated steering low-mount racing bucket seats and Alcantara on the steering wheel and gear lever and, although maximum power remains the same, torque is up to 390 NM, only 500 grams were made and they sold instantly in Japan via a lottery system despite the £50,000 price tag, so this car was worth it now.

The car was a special project. AIO Toyota spent a lot of time working on itself personally, so I hope it's pretty good and immediately, within the first 100m, it feels special. I mean, that's helped by the fact that these seats. they are much better the driving position lowered by 20mm the steering is definitely sharper and more responsive it really feels like a racing car and only the suspension is more sophisticated this is the turn that is complicated and what a shape in that it folds down there is absolutely no problem at all, it almost seems like it just needs more power because the chassis is blooming so well.

I wish we had this in the UK. It would have been very popular, you know, a lot of people with Ferraris and Lamborghinis and huge car collections, all of them. I purchased gray ones to add to his collection because it is such a special vehicle. Well, those kinds of people would have used this particular car if you had that kind of money. This is the one you would have wanted. I was literally blown away by how good that grmn is. I felt like driving, but how would this translate into a fast lap at that time? I expect great things from the grmn, let's see what you can do oh, oh, slight that push there, but oh, much flatter in the corners, oh, and the speed there. yeah I'm sure this is going to be faster oh yeah come on oh what's he going to do come on oh this is fast this is fast yes 40 25 more than 2 seconds faster Round Here you can see why this is Maro's favorite now for the launch 3 2 1 looks good, let's find out time 5.22 the grmn's additional body reinforcement has been carried over to the new gen 2 and as part of Gazoo Racing's continued push, it breaks it down and then improves the philosophy of the Gen 2 The model has an improved and more powerful engine with 300 horsepower and 400 new meters of torque according to Japanese specifications.

Power links and gears, a stronger differential and revised settings for the all-wheel drive system. There's also a stiffer suspension, different geometries and exterior design tweaks for better cooling inside a 20mm lower seating position and lower-mounted rally-inspired dashboard with digital dolls may not look pretty, but They are welcome. The problem is that in the UK the price has risen from £33,000 for the Circuit Pack edition to £45,000 for the new car only available. With the

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package it's instantly worth the extra money compared to the GRMN with its more aggressive clutch, it's just easier to drive when I hit the track, however I can already tell they have learned from that car due to the seating position.

In this it's much more like the grmn so I'm sitting lower which is much appreciated however I just don't have the grip on the seat bolsters like in that grmn so I'd rather have those seats in this Curiously, this car does have them. It feels stiffer than the previous generation, just a little more responsive when turning. A little more solid feeling, doesn't feel totally planted in the same way as that grmn. You had a little more body roll, but there is actually a noticeable improvement over the original? It's just that the steering feels a little more natural and progressive too, so notice the lean compared to the green.

I just put the car in sport mode which gives it a sharper throttle response and that's something I couldn't do with a previous generation. the only thing you could alter was the torque split in the four wheel drive system, but now you can also alter the throttle mapping, you can feel the extra power or maybe it's a CU placeo, they're not loads, they're like 30 horsepower, it just seems to have worked its way to the redline a little more legally than before, they altered the gearshift slightly and made it a little louder after testing it to destruction, which begs the question, how much faster is the new Garis than its predecessor? a quick turn to the right Gen 2 Garis manual let's see what we do it feels grippier done the Gen one this is going to be faster than the Gen one it will be interesting to see how close it comes to the grmn oh it's a nice little rotation there, so there's more power, stiffer body, let's see what we're going to do here, oh yeah, four 4158s a second faster than the old giis, that's a big improvement really from gen 1 to gen 2.

I think the engineers are happy with that. result, so not as fast as the grmn but noticeably faster than the old standard gr

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, but what about the launch 3 2 1? Let's see if it was faster than the old GS. Yes, it was 5.26 at 62 mph. It is faster. I want to sell your car quickly, easily and for a fair price, then head to auto, where you will have over 4,000 trusted dealers ready to bid on it in an online auction, first enter your car registration to get an instant ballpark valuation and then if you want to continue, give us more details. and upload some photos and we'll help you set a fair reserve price for your car, which is the minimum amount you'd be happy to sell it for.

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With the video, as part of the changes to the new giis, there is a new silver paint plus the addition. of an automatic gearbox option it is an 8 speed torque converter but has a quick lock and quick shift function it has a manual mode so you can use the steering mounted paddles to change gears or like in a racing car tourism you can use a centrally mounted gear lever to shift too, but is this gearbox any good? I think I'll be able to explore this track a little better in the automatic version because I won't have to think as much about changing gears, although I'm in manual mode and I think my first criticism would be the fact that I would like the paddles to be a little bigger, they are very similar to the size you get in the VW group cars, which are not big enough, I mean.

With this type of car I always drive in manual mode with the paddle shifters less involved. Yes, in a way, but when you are on an unknown and complicated circuit like this, it really helps you on the road. I like the extra involvement of the manual. It's a pretty good Auto, it's not dual clutch in some ways. I wish it was dual clutch, like you have the most instantaneous gear change, but it's not very slow and you get a little jolt between gear changes to add to the drama. I'm going to put it in automatic mode and see how good it is at figuring out what to do when it chooses the right gear for me coming out of this corner.

I think I'd rather have been in a lower gear there to tell you the truth is, everyone goes on, oh no, you want the mangle, it's more complicated, but I think when everything is electric and there's not even paddle shifters, I think I'd do it. We will enjoy, we will look back at them and we will leave. They were actually a lot more interesting than We actually gave them credit for that in the past, but the main thing about this is that it opens it up to a wider audience. However, it would be interesting to see if it actually makes you faster.

I prefer to use palettes. Toyota engineers say they are fully automatic. it's actually faster than going in manual mode and that's how Massa will drive it on this hot lap, so let's see how he does it. It is very fast changing gears manually, but this should be faster, we will find out even if it is running flat out. car is a recommendation from the engineers oh wow, this car is taking a beating I can't believe it's holding up oh, the automatic is heavier but only 20 kilos that probably won't make a difference I'm not sure it's going to be faster, however, what will be the time? oh oh oh oh who, so this is it, testament to how quick it is to shift gears, that was a 40 1 35, the automatic was faster, but by a smaller margin, impressive, but what will the addition of the launch control?

It affects the car's timing of not hitting 62 mph 3 2 1, so launch control I wonder if it made a difference. I don't know, his pitches were pretty good in manual. I think it is more due to the gear change, so the time needed is 5.26. that's what it did in the manual. I think engineers are interested in finding out. Oh, 4.99 less than 5 seconds. Well done. The really interesting thing about all of this is that the difference in performance that Massa got from each car is exactly what the engineers predicted, but it's not all good news, although Toyota will build more Gen 2s than the previous one, just a couple ofHundreds of them will arrive in the United Kingdom.

Now you can blame our emissions regulations for that, so it will be a rare occurrence. site, but not as rare as these special edition models of which only 200 of each will be made, for the first time in the world, we have the Sebastian Oier edition, which was inspired by the 8-time WRC champion. He has a larger carbon wing, unique gray paint and badges. Inside there is red, white and blue stitching for the French flag on the steering wheel mechanically, although it is identical to the standard generation 2 GI; However, the all-wheel drive control system has been modified slightly so that the variable track mode is now called marine mode, which while still constantly variable has a slightly more rear-drive bias and instead of the gravel setting From front to rear 5347 standard cars, there's a new SE mode split 40 front 60 rear as preferred by the man himself in case you're wondering who this husky character is. actually the name AKO Toyota uses when he races, kind of like his racing driver Alter Ego, the same way Bruce Wayne is also Batman, I'm on the OA version now.

The first thing I'm going to do is run the car. Marizo mode can have variable four-wheel drive that shuffles torque between front and rear, but with a little more rear-wheel drive than how the standard car would operate. Let's see if I can notice any difference on this hairpin bend here and move on. The gas goes through here so now I don't know if I would have to do it back to back over and over to be sure what I'm going to do now is go into Seb mode so it's locked 4060 front to back now with my old GS.

I like the sport mode where you had like 3070, but I thought it was a little too rear-end, whereas I quite like this layout because it still feels a little bit biased in rear-wheel drive, but you're getting the benefit of that front differential like if you connected the nose and this is where you want a lot of torque to arrive. the front coming out has a tight turn like that because you can just engage the front diff and crawl out of the turn. Next is the Cali Raven Pera edition, not only does it have a 3-color Wilder paint scheme designed by C's partner.

The carbon adjustable rear wing is taken from the grmn, unlike the OA, there is a mechanical change to the system all-wheel drive with a slightly different ratio that allows the front and rear wheels to spin at exactly the same rate when you start the car. its new donut mode which replaces the standard car's gravel mode, while there's a new T mode which replaces Cars' standard track setting. It has more rear-wheel drive bias when you first turn into a corner and then it goes more to 50/50 when we're going through the corner to help exit the corner, so I'm going to start in Cal mode, so the idea It's that, oh yeah, you get the best of both worlds, you get that initial push and you get pushed out of the corner, but then you have torque at the front to help you engage and really engage the front differential.

So in theory this should be my favorite setup, it makes the car maybe feel a little more agile. This is probably the way I drive. you know what I'm going to do now, although I'm going to be silly, go to Donut mode, so it locks 50/50 the front and rear wheels turning at the same speed, actually that feels a little less agile, almost a a little more aggressive, yes. I'm not sure it's correct on the road, however, there is a time when dut mode could be very useful to really experience donut mode. We've got Massa driving again so here we go, it was wicked, it's like he was going backwards I think. likes the donut mode whoa whoa mate oh man and what a way to end the two special edition versions for me, the Cal ramp is the best although tbh it costs around £60,000 each and I don't think it's worth it the additional 15,000 of the standard generation 2.

Giis, remember, is already £1,13,000 more than the original Garis mark1; However, for collectors they may be worth it either way, although your chance of getting any of the Gen 2 Grays in the UK is a bit of a long shot, so if you're going to dream, you might as well dream big, So what is my final verdict? Well, every Garis is a winner, but it's interesting to see the improvement as you go through the generations and the work that has gone into them and the continued development that Toyota does. If I could have one, this would be it.

The grmn totally blew me away. It's basically like the RS version of Toyota's

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gr series machine and I want to say a huge thank you to everyone at Toyota who made this possible. Thank you so much. Lots of guys, hey, if you enjoyed the video, please like it, it really helps us. If you click on the video, Windows you can see more videos and if you click on the carwow logo, you can go to carwow to see how much money you have. You can save on your next car thanks for looking.