Perhaps the MOST USED Toyota GR Yaris in the country: Jim's PERSONAL race car | ReDriven

Okay, so what you were looking at here could be the

most

used

Yaris GR, say, on the road. Has it been driven carefully? No, has he conducted himself in a purely polite manner around the city? No, from day one, this little white nugget has really been pushed to the max. Limit and we actually ran into some hiccups along the way but we'll get to them in a second which then begs the question after thousands of very aggressive kilometers is the Yaris gr still worthy of all the hype and after this type of treatment, like what? In reality, it backfires on them when they are pushed to their limits and often exceed them.

Let's find out the foreign before we get into this. There is something very special about this particular Yaris gr. See if this is your first re-boosted video. We have a resident. mechanic gym, he'll explain everything that mechanically can go wrong with these later in the video, but this is his

personal

car, it's not his daily driver's car on the road, it's actually his

race

car, it's still registered and it still sets. Driven on the road it's actually me more than him

most

of the time, but this real car recently won the state and national super sprint championships for its class.

Now back to the Eris GR in general, we think it's likely that if you're watching this video you're a fan of the Yaris GR and you probably know all the ins and outs, but in case you've hit your head and forgotten, how about a description general fast? Basically, the gr is the high-performance variant of the humble Yaris developed by Toyota's motorsports division, Gazoo Racing, hence gr, however, the gr differs from the commuter car in every way except on the mirrors, front and rear lights and antenna, this is because the Geo is a special homologation. Now, what that basically means is that for Toyota.

To compete in certain

race

s and rally events, they had to build a bunch of road versions of the racing car. This competition car, to overcome those rally stages, has a 1.6-liter three-cylinder turbocharged engine coupled to a six-speed manual transmission. power to all four wheels through a sophisticated all-wheel drive system, now there's obviously a lot of other stuff specific to going fast, like high-performance suspension and huge brakes, and the car was developed in conjunction with the world team Toyota rally car and with the help of The god of rallying, Tommy McKinnon, but even within this very specialized model there are variants.

This is the car with basic specifications. It was actually one of the first to land in Australia, but a few months later after its launch, Toyota announced the rally edition which featured a There are a lot of extras and features and stuff like that, but we'll explain them to you in a second, but internationally there have been variants such as the GR Yaris RS, which is a front-wheel drive and naturally aspirated version with a CVT that reaches the GRMN. Circuit package that's as tough as the Yaris can get from the factory now for all the specific details and much more about the yarustria jump over to rediven.com and check out our amazing and completely free

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cheat sheet now, let's take a look .

One second because I feel like the RSGI is almost like the ultimate litmus test to see if you're a true car lover or not, for us car lovers this thing just ticks all the boxes you have. You have these angry headlights, you have real vents that do things, it's not just a piece of cut plastic, the whole body is so wide, short and piggy, this to us is exquisite, but the thing is talking to my partner, who is . No, in fact, I have shown this car to a lot of my non-car friends and my non-car friends and they actually said it's ugly, obviously they're all dead to me.

Now, but come on, I'm surely not alone here, this has to be one of the best cars on our roads, especially when it's been lowered like this on these beautiful wheels and with the racing livery and some battle scars. I love it, guys. We just have to pay some bills for a second if that bothers you and you hate saving money just skip ahead about 30 seconds first, a big thank you to our driver finance partners, if you need help financing your next car go to the driver because the Everything is can be done online, so you can simply get pre-approved in literally just minutes and there are no hidden fees.

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Now look from a design point of view for what you might expect a bit of the cost of these cars. It's more of a luxurious interior, but look at it this way. I feel like this car continues the tradition like the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution and the Subaru STI, where it's kind of a budget-conscious little hot hatch, basically, so the interior shows that there's really nothing. Funny, there's a bit of Alcantara here and there, but yes, it feels like a budget hatch. Now look at the ergonomics when it has the standard seats. I

personal

ly felt like you sat too high, obviously it could be. a height specific thing and also a lot of people have complained about the space between the bottom of the mirror and the top of the screen which is basically not a big enough space and can obstruct your view from the front. kits that can lift the mirror and that will help with this Sparco seat.

The driving position is now absolutely excellent, so get some spies or

perhaps

a seat lowering kit. The legalities of these will vary depending on where you are viewing this. but yes the standard is too high also just on the standard seats they are incredibly comfortable really supportive and because the material you used doesn't really slide anywhere so they sit too high but unless that are comfortable, now they look worn out. As for this car, it has had an incredible life, but the wear is still pretty good, there are some small scuffs, like the Alcantara on the armrest, here it is already starting to get a little flat, but all the texture on the steering wheel okay even the gear knob the texture is good here or the door cards are good honestly it's still a pretty new car most of these will be in good condition the heavily used ones I guess that's the only wear and tear on the front, yes from a practical point of view you have some pretty decent sized door compartments, you have a place down here that is designed specifically for Jim's kids to leave a little note for their dad , so make sure Iris is watching.

That means you have a spot that's the perfect size for your phone. Actually, I think it's a wireless charging port on some of these ports. Wireless charging bay. I assume you have a bookshelf right here. You have a good size glove. box two cup holders here a small storage container there I think that's it there's no place for sunglasses up there there's nothing under the seats there's really nothing down here yeah that's it for practicality now in the back seat or like what used to be the back seat I'm exactly 18 centimeters taller than Yaris Hilton, this is in my driving position and when I had a back seat it actually wasn't that bad, as you know there wasn't much legroom and the headroom used to be It's a bit of a nightmare because you just rub your head against it because of the roof profile, but like it wasn't, yeah, it wasn't great, but you know, if you're a kid or a amputee, super comfortable for a normal person.

The size for an adult like me is acceptable now for its practicality in the back seat when he has an interior look. Yes, it's supposed to be a practical hatch, but think of it more as a mid-size, Japanese-made Porsche 911 Turbo. You can use the back seat for practical reasons and for storage. places, but not really now as far as the wear on the back seat of this particular car, it's going pretty good, like none of the paint is scratched. The interior of the rear panels are in fairly good condition. The harnesses are in good condition. Nick too, yeah, wear. and break here, well, now the practicality in the trunk because the size of this car is quite good, obviously, this car no longer has an interior, but when it had it, I know from experience that with the seats down and when the clamp that fasten the harness is not installed, you can put a full size four piece battery in the back, so for example what this car is not, the size of its practicality is pretty decent now as far as the tick That's very good news, you get Apple carplay and Android auto as standard, but it's not wireless yet, that will probably come in the update, I guess the screen is pretty decent and you get a bunch of shortcut buttons, as well as being able to touch. the screen and eight-speaker stereo is fine, fine, you're not really going to hear the story.

In fact, I'll be hearing your passengers scream, plus you'll get all the expected things, like dual-zone climate control, a review. parking sensors with camera and be a true performance car Selectable driving modes and we'll get to those more soon, but if you spec it for a rally you'll also get front and rear torque limited slip differentials 18-inch forged aluminum BBS wheels with tuning circuit suspension red interior contrast stitching and brake calipers painted red with the gr logo this particular car has some very tasty additions, first of all the suspicion is being taken care of thanks to the MCA coil-over shocks the wheels wedsport tc105s tires a Yokohama a050s and the engine is actually quite original.

It should have been the intake and exhaust, but the biggest difference was made by installing a limited slip differential at the rear. The front is still open, but we'll talk about the effect this has had in more detail in a moment. Look from a security point of view. Look guys, this is a 2020 car, it's packed with safety equipment, hence the five-star safety rating and cap, but to explain what safety features it has or can expect, it seems appropriate that I Do This Next like a rally co-driver after pressing three more times you will get traction control and stability control at maximum right, no Infinity cut, full suite of active safety Technology like rain keep assist Autonomous emergency braking with detection guarantees of pedestrians and cyclists but monitor adaptive cruise control and recognition on the road and Sebastian, that is the scenario we now have to know all the details about all the safety features or the technological leap at rediven.com, see the sheet of tricks, what is the

yaris

h gr way to drive after thousands? of racing miles, well, if you listen really carefully you might be able to hear the aftermarket exhaust system, but look, besides, this thing is still incredibly lovely to drive and this is what's so brilliant about the Yaris gr's looks. , we all know it's a car with incredible performance, but it's still perfect and being a Yaris it's easy to park and it's small, so on narrow streets or even driveways it's a complete breeze, even when It's lowered this way it still has decent ground clearance so speed bumps and potholes are never a concern and then due to the power and torque overtaking is a breeze and if you just want to have a little fiery blast , like you flex your right foot, it's amazing and then like the steering and shift feel and even the pedal weight are also perfectly calibrated, it's a lot of fun to drive it all the time now, the racing suspension on this one is understandably very , very firm because it's literally tuned for track use, but even then it's never that jarring or harsh at all, actually, you know, when set to its softest setting around town it makes it a brilliant daily driver, it actually gives the car a bit of a goofy sound, but still more confidence and compliance than the stock suspension, but some of the race car modifications are not so good for a daily driver, as the exhaust is very loud and due because we've basically removed half of the interior, it's become a little metallic echo chamber, it feelslike you live in a speaker box made of metal and then you have these tires.

Today the weather has been raining constantly. It's pretty cold and it feels like these tires could be made of wet soap, you know what? even after spending a lifetime on racetracks driving incredibly hard, there are no rattles, no squeaks, no strange noises, the whole car still feels tight like it's been chiseled from a block of granite, it's so awesome, it just feels honestly. It feels really special, like its core DNA has been designed exclusively to give you the ultimate driving experience, but how is this car at the serious stuff like Real Performance driving? Well, you know, how about we leave it to the guy who took this? to win multiple championships, explain what serious driving is like, you'll be a gym, you'll own and race the car, but we'll get to that in a second so you know what happens when a company builds a custom performance car in limited quantities.

Prices go up, these new ones had an introductory price of 39,950, but today even the most affordable examples ask for more than 45,000 dollars, even when it comes to the bells and whistles rally edition, which asked around 56,200 a new, most in the used market are asking a lot more than that now, that might seem like a lot of cash for what is basically a small Toyota hatchback that was granted a quick one, but here's the thing: this car Exactly it's just a couple of seconds slower around the Pheasant Wood circuit here in New South Wales than a Porsche GT2 RS that thing costs about 750,000 so that's 350 grand a second.

It's worth it? Children can't even fit in the back. I don't know what you think now, fuel cables. Even though this is a performance car, it's a 1.6-liter turbo three-cylinder, so even when driven furiously it's still pretty fuel efficient, not that anyone buying a therastria doesn't care about fuel efficiency, plus guys, it's a Toyota and shares many of its mechanical components with other Toyota and Lexus models, so the support network is huge and if you need parts, they're likely affordable , as well as the labor to repair and maintain them, and these are still covered. under a five-year warranty, so if something goes wrong, Toyota will likely fix it anyway unless it's been modified this way.

In that case, it's a case by case situation with the Yaris gr, let's start with the exterior first. All in all, let's say maybe you enter a fast left turn, maybe a little too hot, and then you'd like to lift off the accelerator so the car adjusts a little bit and then starts to turn, maybe hypothetically. Turn too far and let's hypothetically say that happens at Mount Panorama in Bathurst where there are concrete walls on both sides, what the car can do sometimes is take on that concrete wall very enthusiastically and this ends up happening, actually guys, In all seriousness, this is high performance.

The car is quite affordable, so many of them, let's say, show up on the landscape quite frequently, so if you are looking for one, it is essential to check the car for signs of accident damage or dodgy repair work, like cables. tires holding the bumper together or maybe these, you know, just subtle differences in the panel gaps and maybe some slight dents and things like that, actually guys, there's a lot of other things to check for when you're buying something used . car, especially a high-performance car, so be sure to go and check out our ultimate used car buyer's guide before handing over your hard-earned cash, but look out for common thoughts or problems with the exterior, no, none, actually, and even if there were. like Toyota will fix them under warranty anyway and the same can be said for the interior as so far no common interior faults have been reported but mechanically what goes wrong, look I can't tell you because I'm not a qualified mechanic , but Jim, the owner of this Ferry car, certainly is personally.

I have taken the ass out of the car I have and 90% of its use has been on the track and it has been absolutely flawless, although my ownership experience is not necessarily you know the same as everyone, so I dove very deep and managed to get in with some people from Toyota quite high up. There are a couple of things, one of which is the turbo oil drain that tends to crack and we've all seen that on social media and a lot of people are also experiencing that with the modified exhaust, so it's sometimes covered by warranty, other times it is not another common problem that second gear simply shifts back into neutral.

The older models seem to be affected more and there were a ton of them that were covered under warranty and there were a ton of different theories as to what was causing retention issues or actually internal timing and selector issues but what is happening now. Toyota is rejecting most of those claims because the ones that were made early in the warranty, those gearboxes were sent back to Japan and were evaluated and now Toyota's opinion is that the problem is caused by the owner and the way that drives, which is very controversial, so if you have one that jumps out of second gear, good luck and speaking of operator error, if you've looked at anything online about these things you'll have seen the very well documented catastrophic engine failure which was in fact caused by someone. shifting wrong and revving the thing to I don't know 9000 RPM which caused catastrophic engine failure but usually that's the only way you can do it in one of these two other minor things that were fixed in the early days with updates of software which are the radar and adaptive cruise control failures, there was also an oil pressure anomaly which was another software date and another related to an overshoot scenario which was much worse in hot climates, but all of that is fixed it with, you know, aftermarket software updates.

So you're basically searching endlessly through Toyota technical service bulletins. There really isn't much to tell you. Generally speaking, they are very reliable, so yeah, what is it like driving at the limit? So I've mainly driven this. on the track and in a lot of different evolutions, from pretty much stock to some basic modifications and basically it's very minor engine modifications, threaded shocks and sticky tires, regardless of what stage of modifications you are at, it's the car itself. It's incredibly forgiving, you can take a long corner, you can go from understeer to supervisor to understeer to oversteer multiple times, completely predicted, predictable, laughing like a schoolgirl the whole time, it's hilarious and very rewarding, um, it's definitely a case in which it is not necessarily all the power.

That makes a difference because the biggest wins I've had in this have to do with traction. Sticky ties are great but the rear LSD has probably been the biggest game changer in terms of lap times so just on the rear diff in a lap normally that's about a minute long just the difference without other modifications, it is approximately two seconds per lap. The improvement thus proves that horsepower is not the only way to go faster, so yes, regardless of what Adam's opinion is at the end of this video, I personally believe. Yes, you should buy one because they are a lot of fun, okay, so if you buy one, this may surprise some of you, but let's just take a look, there is no denying that the Yaris gr is an incredibly special car.

It is exciting to drive as it is capable of bending physics. Performance feats, but the problem with the little Toyota has more to do with who buys it than the car itself. See if they were as available as say a standard Yaris or even a Corolla, yeah sure whoever you are go buy one but the problem is that because they are so limited often the people who deserve buy them or drive them, even they miss out, we're talking about the people who will actually take the Yaris to track it. days or we will spend every possible moment on some remote, deserted winding road enjoying the cars immense levels of engineering, embracing what this car is all about.

The problem is that we see these things being used as a kind of flex that drives like a Café. and club streets as a kind of way to show off, obviously, express yourself however you want and it's not up to us to tell you how to spend your money, but buying a Yaris gr and not driving it seriously or not taking it to the track is a bit. like buying a meal at a Gordon Ramsay restaurant, taking a photo of it for your social media and then not eating it, what makes it really special you clearly don't understand, so how about you live it for those who will appreciate it properly? a moron, take this to the track and drive it as intended, so after all that, would you buy one of these or would you buy one from the competition?

I don't really know what its exact competition would be, maybe a gr Corolla, let us know in the comments, see you next time, there's something a little bit special about this particular one. I feel like the Yaris gr is almost like the latest limited model, actually guys, in all seriousness, this is a performance car, a performance car that is What if we go?