NEW Toyota GR Yaris: DRAG RACE & review!

this is the new Toyota gr yarus Believe it or not, Toyota has made some major updates to the car as part of a mid-life facelift, more than just a facelift, they have also made a lot of changes under the skin and to explain to you exactly what they are. Am I going to talk to the chief engineer to find out what they have done and why they have done it with dual clutch transmission? Because it's a sports car. No, I'm going to compare the new car with the old one driving. They back to back on the track, the car goes sideways over there and of course I'm going to do a

drag

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with the new car against the old one.

Wow, it's off to a better start. I really hope the upgrades made the car worse because I don't want to have to sell my old G to buy the new one because I'm supposed to buy a stove. My God! I'm Matt Watson and you're watching carwow, let me explain the design changes in this revised version. gr Yaris now this car is camouflaged because Toyota did not want people to see it before its presentation at the Toyo Motor Show. While you're watching this video, the car has been unveiled, so I can show you these photos of what it looks like. in camouflage and you will notice that there is now a gray color in addition to matte white, pearl white, red and black.

I would still have it in white P like my car. Now one of the big changes is this front bumper, so this one is all new here, we have the radiator here because this is a pre-programmed car, it's the same as on the old car, other versions have a gr sticker and you also have little radiator coolers spray for the intercooler and also the shape of the design. It's different than before and you have these vents here on the side to help the air flow smoothly over the wheels. The wheels look exactly the same as before, so the brakes on the Forge alloy wheels are the same as before, so the brakes are really big, powerful and strong moving down.

There are really no changes to the same sloping roof line. What you can't see here is the new spoiler, so it's the same as the previous car, but the revised version has body color instead of black and this brake light has actually been moved, it's not there. over there. It's already down here and you actually have a full length light strip around here, the high level brake light down there as well. Here you don't have the fake diffuser that you had on the old car, but instead you have this kind of rally-inspired grille. also a metal grill on the front instead of the plastic grill because it's a little sturdier so if you're following someone down a winding road you're less likely to get hit by things and objects like if you were on the refrigerator and damage it here.

Inside, the changes are huge, it's got a completely new dashboard, it's very different, everything is housed in this binacle of instruments, here it feels like something from the 80s, but this section, the way it's angled with the driver, is very similar to that of a rally car. From two analogues you have two digital ones and the appearance changes depending on which mode you go into, so it's actually easier to see your rev counter if you're in sport mode, speaking of which, you can now switch between different driving modes and that alters The accelerator. response and throttle mapping, you still have the same switch there to alter the four-wheel drive system, but it's nice that you can now separate the two.

Another big change with digital instruments is the fact that you get so much more. information in front of you, another thing is the design of this, it's actually a lot easier to operate because they've moved some of the controls closer, the idea is that they had like people driving the old car with their rally harnesses on, it's more difficult to like the weather or whatever and all that sort of stuff is now easier to reach, but one big change is that you don't have the old infotainment system proud of the dashboard; It's actually 5cm lower and that means you get better visibility.

What also improves visibility is that they relocated this rear view mirror before they mounted it forward here, so it blocked your view. There you have like this little mailbox to look towards the center of the board. Now the visibility is a lot. Another improved thing that helps is that the fact that the seats are mounted 25mm lower just means that you have a lot more view through that central part of the windshield and you also feel more connected to the car rather than sitting in it , you are more into it. Then there is the design of the rest of the board.

This is a pre-production car, so it's not really the materials you'll get on the dash for the trim that customers will get, but the design. so before it was a bit awkward, it had a little shelf but it wasn't big enough to put your mobile phone on, whereas this one definitely is and you have a USB C, not an old USB, to plug your phone in for another reason The reason they have put this area a little further back is because in certain countries, I think not in the United Kingdom. I haven't seen any of these in the UK.

Some people like to put little gauges in there and there is just more room to allow you to do that, another thing they have changed, this came here before this part of the door handle was flat, now they have angled it so it is Slightly easier to operate the window switches and lock switch, so a big difference from before they did that too. I moved the stability control and auto start function from here to here to make them a little easier to access, although when driving you have to turn the knob especially to get to drive mode, so I don't think that's a solution ideal, but what is better than before.

Hazard warning lights, so when you pass someone and they let you pass, you can get on quickly. Thank you very much for letting me buy. It feels very different here. Considering it's still pretty much the same car and they basically looked at all the complaints people had about the previous generation car and improved them so they actually listen to their customers. In fact, one of the reasons they left the seat was after watching my video. From the initial release of the original Garis when I said the seats were too high, here's a real shot of an engineer with a clip of my video on their computer which they use as part of the development of this car, so always good to know .

That the engineers listen to these

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s and follow the advice of some of us car

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ers. One thing Toyota hasn't changed is the space in the back, obviously they couldn't, so still headroom is very tight and knee room is a bit. It's comfortable, but you can carry people in the back if you really need to. Another thing that Toyota hasn't changed is that the boot is still quite small and it still has a slightly flimsy lower deck which helps save weight and is a practical solution. because the good thing about it look at this you can put it in there pretty easily and it also flies really well look at that home run oh yeah for starters I'm going to hit the track in the old Garis to remind myself what it feels like I have one of my own but This remains, and I drive.

I'm in a circuit. I haven't had mine on the circuit in a long time, so let's go for a spin around Harama. The sun is shining, hence the sunglasses and since they make me look blindingly cool, I'm not familiar with the circuit at all so I have to learn the circuit, fortunately I don't have to learn the car, here we go, I have the automatic signal on this because There is no chance of heeling and towing on this GIS because the pedal position on this current generation car is not great, but it is a little fly on the track, lots of grip.

Turn on the power down here, since I don't lift, keep the car still. I love this little car, right, I'm pushing it a little there. I'm probably in too high a gear. Yes, I'm in fifth grade. What am I doing? I'm not looking at the tachometer at all. It really is the place for this car. It's a bumpy road but it handles very well on the track. Now it's always difficult to shift gears with your right hand when you're used to right-hand drive cars. It's quite interesting to follow someone else down the street. where it brakes a lot earlier than I think it would, well that was really interesting just testing the car a bit feeling it move a little bit trying to learn the circuit ruining some gear changes by going into fifth instead of third at the same time. less.

They were not upside down. I would prefer to go from second to fifth. I would like to introduce you to Sao s, so he is the chief engineer of the giis. He's the guy who built my car, so I want to be the first. I want to take a very, very deep bow just to say thank you for the wonderful car. I love it. One of the things about the giis is that when he first drove it to 100 MERS I knew he had to buy one and I'm a little worried about today. I don't want to have to buy a new one and I don't want the value of mine to go down.

Can you tell me the reason why you upgraded the car when it came to us? To say that this is not the end to make a car better and better, they run from motorsports and train in motorsports and racing activities, that's why you know we started to restart the improvement only for the people who look who is a Morizo ​​and who is a Toyota. The president of Toyota Mot Corporation needed to improve it for Motorsport and one of the things you do when you use a car in Motorsport: you hit them and you damage them, you break them and then you have to fix them and then you improve them and that's what happened here, so , can you explain me?

We have a lot of broken internal engine parts. What is this all about? Do you know the real evidence that we experience in racing activity? The moo and the professional driver. It broke down in the

race

so I don't have to worry about this happening to my grus while driving on the highway. It doesn't happen to you, basically your racing drivers have been hitting the car. Oh yeah, so we found the right performance limitation, which brings us to the new engine, so this is from the old engine and what happened here, for example, one of the main causes was the pre-ignition and the explosion that also occurred. soon no time, not a good time, yes, yes, and then we did a calibration upgrade for the software correctly and did you change anything that had to do with the actual parts, yes, the materials, yes, material changes to make the track stronger, yeah, make it stronger?

For people who want to tune their cars, it's a better platform for tuners than the previous generation. This is also very good, so the old engine is still strong, but this one is even stronger, so if you are a tuner and want to improve the power you need to get the new one. You can't say that man, no don't do it, it will void your warranty. Okay, some other parts we want to look at are this part of the four-wheel drive system, Grael's driving training. and as the temperature increased we found some breaks in the transfer and got the cooling air flowing well from the undercover so basically racing driver yes practice is on a normal giis hammering it on gravel for a long period . of time and the four-wheel drive system overheated and you fix that with ADD Cooling and what's going on with these parts here, what is this?

This is a subat that we installed in the new G areas today we found is a bad location some bump In the corner where you can see these bumpers, it's a corner. We upgraded the location there, so you add a new radiator to the new car. It has more performance, so you need a little more cooling. You had it behind the bumper. The rally driver crashed. He damages it a little bit like they do and he damaged it so you decide to move it higher but you also did something else because obviously if you break it you need to remove the entire front bumper which is expensive and time consuming.

We break it down into three sections and the customer doesn't have to change the entire bumper, he just changes the small parts, so there's a funny story with this, this is from the new car, so it's in three different pieces, so if you trim something a journalist did while driving down the track they hit a f c yeah do it but you can see this comes apart like this so if you make the front splitter low you can remove it without having to do the whole bumper which which will be similar. The insurance costs would be less or the repair cost will be less, so that's good, obviously thanks to the media, there were no drivers, it was a journalist, it wasn't me, although that's okay, some other things we're happening here, we have the correct gear links. also the mo D and he didn't make it difficult, uh, changing the Saft after the 2000 kilometers we found breaking it, it has brutal gear changes, if he did that, I mean look he's not driving my car, he's always overtaking the limit, oh no, look.

And the last thing is this suspension armbottom and you know, break it down here, what you put in is a stronger part here is the reinforcement that you make, the suspension pieces will be a little bit stiffer, which will make the car more robust but also more responsive. Because there are less of them, so yeah, it's very interesting to see that basically ctoan doesn't care if people damage his cars because then he learns how to improve them, so maybe he can help you with that on the track if you damage it. yes please as before the giis uses a 1.6L 3 cylinder turbo petrol engine however it is the engine used in the Corolla gr so it has lighter and stronger pistons it also has valves reinforced exhaust pipes and an improved Trin valve, it also has a higher injection pressure.

The result is that power rises from 261 horsepower in the previous car to 280 horsepower. It also goes up from 360 Newt M to 390 Newt M. I will go out in the new version with the manual. gearbox they changed slightly the gear lever maybe a little easier. I have the rev match on because I haven't done anything with the pedals it is still very difficult to heal and tow. It's good to compare this to the original manual version because you can really notice the difference in the rigidity of the body. Now I'm comparing the old versus the new. Look at the push.

I can see marks going off the track. I think someone made a mistake on that curve. Now the suspension has been updated. a little different than before and the body is stiffer plus the suspension mounting point is also different and it definitely feels pointier and maybe also a little more adjustable on the throttle and it feels a little more responsive, can't tell believe How I'm realizing right away that this is the tough corner with a rotation, there we go, don't let me push there, oh yeah, it makes me want it, oh, it just feels more alive, yeah, oh, don't make me buy one that's scary.

But don't get pressured here m, these brakes are legendary, I mean you think they might give up, that would be the point at which they would, but no, there's still a lot of Fu through the pedal. I'm going to stay second here to get the rotation. Shifting the gears is getting a little sweeter, it's not a pretty good Civic Type R, but it's still good, come on, second, it's still not perfect, like when you're in a hurry, the gearshift can be a little obstacle. Don't know. I notice it on the road, but when I really want to try to attack a track, I definitely feel it.

Ching God starts to open, then the car goes sideways, that's my moment with the finished car. I love it. Well done, Sato San and the team. I'd really like to go back to the previous generation version now that I've learned the circuit to see how different it's very hard to tell the difference in performance, you know, 20 extra horsepower, 30 extra Newton, maybe a little bit punchier, but the chassis I feel is a little more mobile the gear change is a little better but there is still room for improvement for track work on the road. I find it perfectly fine, big deal, although I feel more connected to the car because I'm sitting lower, my visibility has improved massively, it really makes a big difference and I was talking to one of the engineers about whether I could fit these seats in my car , but actually what they did was completely change the mounting brackets.

I had to recalibrate all the airbags because you will know in a different position and this is one of the things that if you are the type of person who bought the previous generation Yaris and you lowered the seat, the driver's seat is not set. airbag and passenger airbag for a much lower seating position so that's something to consider but it's a big difference just getting that visibility from here you can see a lot more through the corners and that gives you a lot more confidence to go fast, not so you really need to go faster than G because they kind of push you, you go faster, faster, look, what can I do, continue, let's go faster, that's always the risk for them and this, I can say it can go even faster, wow. uh saos an um, I have bad news, so all the changes have made the car a lot worse.

It's absolutely terrible. The old one is much better. If you are thinking of buying the new one, don't come. You and I can buy my old one, yeah, because this is terrible, that means you don't have to buy a new one. Yes, can you get me a new one please? Because I'm going to sell the old one because it's better, okay? One of the most important changes for this new generation of GIS is the fact that it is now available in an automatic version. Why on earth is an automatic version of the GIS needed, especially if it's a pure driver's car?

However, sometimes you know who the client is that has the only license. for automatic transmission so we would like to share this more fun drive with automatic transmission licenses so tell me about this automatic transmission because I guess dual transmission because it is a sports car no it is to convert the system why We have a long experience with a converter system. The converter system is quite smooth and good for the driving feel, so how did you do that? Because most people think that the torque conversion will be a little muddy, it will be a little slow, how did you do it? it feels fast and responsive what changes are there in this compared to a normal torque converter Auto there are two things so we increase the frequency of use you are looking for for example the start and low speed you know the low gear and also What you can see the solenoid is making it more good speed to change the gears.

Is there anything you've done with the clutches? Yes, clutches. We have two clutches to manage the group's large speed changes. Basically, what you've done is made the change. The torque converter locks up more from a lower speed and more often and S and from the start and you can have launch control on this yeah, oh yeah, we have launch control. It will be interesting to see the time not 60, but we'll talk about that in a moment. you have a solenoid that just shifts gears faster and you have grippier clutches that engage faster so it should be better than a normal torque converter and we should all be thankful it's not a CVT because Toyota has a lot of them too I also have experience with CVT gearboxes and that wouldn't be so good for this car Gunner What is the weight of the car compared to the manual transmission 20kg 20?

How about its size? Because I must say it looks small, yes. the GRS has waste limitation so we should make it smaller and you say lighter how heavy it is in total. I can't tell you that it's 20kg heavier, not much, no, no, oh oh, wait, I can move it a little, look, look. Now, I just pinched my skin, I pinched my skin on that part D, be careful, be careful, yeah, don't try that at home, there's something else with this too, it's got a limited slip differential, oh yeah, the rear is a Okay, so with the circuit package you get a Torsed slip differential that will send power directly to where there is the most torque.

Okay cool with the gis the new version do they all come with front and rear Torsson mhm so you always have the Torsson on? the front and rear from now on, which is the right thing to do. Was there anything you learned from Motorsport about the gearbox to make it stronger? This automatic transmission is made to generate more temperature than the manual transmission and we made some changes to the housing so that you know the cooling and also that we made it larger, the ATF cooler and the sub-radiator also the total management of the performance of cooling so tell me what happened when the gearbox broke oh yeah, the moment our president is is in the race for the qualifying shot, he stopped in the middle of the corner and we found out what was caused by the overheating that was the trigger for the cooling performance improvement, so the president broke down in the middle of the curve, yes and and We said yes, but we are very grateful that you found it, but he is willing to do it, although he wants to find the limits of the car so that you can improve them well, that's all very interesting, but what?

What I need to do now is figure out exactly how this gearbox works on the track, so let's do it. It's very, very strange to be in a giis changing gears using pedals. Now I have the car in track mode. Now in old car track mode, it is a The four wheel drive system is split equally 50/50 front and rear, however in this it is constantly variable so it will switch between 60 at the front , 40 in the rear and 70 in the rear, 30 in the front because I don't have to think about changing gears it is much easier for me to gain a little speed, the gear changes are quite quick and the automatic gearbox really makes me It's helping here, if I want it on the road I don't know, but being Auto I can focus more on braking and turning.

I think for the road you'll probably want the manual for engagement, but I'm enjoying this Car, anyone who says oh no, I don't have it. du clutch out I don't think you really need it and here's one reason why you don't worry about double clutches: sometimes when you want to pull away they can be a little choppy and swerving in traffic isn't good for them, but Being a torque converter you don't have to worry about that and yet because they actually lock up that torque converter once you move away the shifts are quick, they don't impede the actual performance of the car.

It's a big deal and in the hands of a professional driver, this automatic, although 20kg heavier than the manual, is a second faster around Fuji Raceway and in terms of lap times per second from professional driving and racing drivers , that's a lot of time, here we go. 3 two in oh I beat them off the line so easy I think they were sleeping but that's the joy of having the car guys you want to have a quick one you might not have been completely ready here we go better two of three, like me. I always say three three two 1 wow you had a better start went to the shifter he lifted it look he was sleeping so you had a great start what I'm going to do now is compare the cars not 60 times so I'm going to Start with the old car, let's rev it up, release the clutch, oh, that hooked it up real good, oh, come on, oh, come on, what are you going to do?

It's not the best time, I didn't have the best gear change, but it clicked. up good no to 60 6 seconds dead no 2 62 6.3 seconds standing fourth 14.12 let's try the new car in manual the same again accelerate dumper dumper the clutch oh that hook better oh gear change from second to third still a little questionable and there come on or 13.67% 60 was 5 seconds, it's a second faster, it just connected better, the no 62 was 5.7 seconds and the mile qu 13.6 7 finally, then the automatic lifting of both paddles goes to launch floor, ooh, interesting here we go what a mile that is so interesting not at 60 it was 5.1 seconds a little slower than in the manual that manual started brilliantly however in the manual version of the new car I should have changed gears runs just before 100 km per hour the N at 62 as a result, that car took 5.7 seconds to get to 62, while this one didn't get to 60 in 5.1 seconds, then not to 62 or not to 100 km per hour in 5.41 seconds, so that meant it was faster in the quarter mile. but not by much so it clocked a 13 61 so just a little faster in the quarter mile with the automatic has the benefit of launch control but is heavier.

H. I think repeated quick starts in the car will be easier to recreate the times. and over and over again and of course you're not going to cut the clutch. It's all very interesting and what I'm going to do now is show the actual results on the screen so you can see the difference in the cars' times, enjoy. your free time, so what is my final verdict on the new Toyota GI Yaris? There's no point in buying one, they've made it worse, it's not good, you're definitely better off buying the old car and in fact I have one for sale if you're interested because I'll probably want to buy this car new because yes, they've made it better, it's better and now they have solved all the problems I had with the previous car.

Damn, I wasn't supposed to buy another car but it looks like I'm going to have to anyway, if you get the chance go ahead and buy this, it's amazing, it's even more amazing than before anyway, I hope you have enjoyed the video, if you gave it a like let me know. What you think about this giis in the comments below and let me know if you want to buy mine. Also click on the video windows to see more videos and on the car box to go to carw and receive a special surprise. Actually, it could be where My car is for sale because it can be sold, stop by GW.