Everyone knows that Toyota Motor President Akio Toyoda is a leader who is passionate about driving and racing, and even participates in various types of racing competitions as "MORIZO". Even to promote hydrogen fuel vehicles, a modified Corolla hydrogen fuel race car was driven to participate in the 24-hour endurance race held at Fuji Circuit. It is precisely because of Akio Toyoda's love for driving that Toyota has continuously launched models with great driving pleasure in recent years, among which the GR Supra, GR 86, GR Yaris these three cars have also become hot models in the hearts of fans.
However, compared to the GR Supra and GR 86, gr Yaris is a street car that evolved from the WRC rally car, and also has a 1.6L three-cylinder turbo engine code-named G16E-GTS, and its original turbocharging value has reached 1.4Bar, and finally broke out 261 horsepower. It has its own strong performance and unfathomable modification potential, and has also been recognized by fans around the world. And such a pure-breed performance steel cannon is naturally to match the manual gear is king, but for those who like performance cars but want to automatically drive the riders, it seems to be a little unfriendly; if you are living in the north, Shanghai and Guangzhou area, blocking the car your left foot really needs to be cultivated.
Toyota is developing the GR Yaris automatic model for these automatic hobbyists, and it is an 8-speed automatic transmission with paddle shifters. The recent prototype number 109 also participated in a Toyota internal Gazoo rally race; and the driver of the 109 prototype was Mr. Hayakawa Shigeru, vice chairman of Toyota Motor, who said that it is not yet possible to confirm that the production car will be equipped with an AT transmission in the future, but it will take time to prove it.
Automatic transmission inside prototype 109
There are also paddle shifters behind the steering wheel
Editor's summary: With the gradual introduction of GR Supra and GR 86, domestic car fans are cheering and can finally empty their wallets. And the delay in the news of GR Yaris seems a little embarrassed, but I believe that this purebred performance steel gun is definitely not prepared for most of the people, must be determined that the value of this car will be purchased, and then various modifications must be arranged, which is the respect for GR Yaris.
Of course, if you especially like GR Yaris, but you have a other half that will not open the "manual transmission", then the automatic GR Yaris is particularly important, which can satisfy your desires and fool the other half, the best of both worlds will definitely increase the sales of this performance steel gun. However, you must also be prepared to be disliked in the rider group, after all, the automatic 86 is called toyota 43.