Here’s Autocar’s best affordable drivers car, the Toyota GR Yaris, as it heads up the hill…
“He wanted to show that we could put learning from motorsport into our road cars,” says Saito. “His passion to produce a sports car ourselves and make it in our own plant was key to development.”, a regular competitor in races and rallies, didn’t just deliver a demanding brief and leave Gazoo Racing to get on with it: he was involved throughout the four-year development. While Saito’s job title is GR Yaris chief engineer, he prefers to give that title to Toyoda.
“From the start, we foresaw the GR Yaris as a future homologation car, so we discussed what they wanted from that, about a low roofline to improve the aerodynamics and a low body weight. They had a big motivation and were excited to be involved with developing a road car.”The rally team also helped Saito’s team develop knowledge in areas where it was lacking experience – particularly in the GR Yaris’s four-wheel drive system.
That electronically controlled all-wheel drive system eschews a centre differential for a high-performance coupling in front of the rear axle. In various drive modes it can send 60% of the power to the front and 40% to the rear , 50:50 and 30:70. It is combined with a manual handbrake that automatically disconnects the rear shafts when pulled.
With the guidance of Toyoda and the WRC team, the GR Yaris began to take shape as a vehicle unlike anything else Toyota produces. That individuality goes beyond the all-wheel drive system: the platform is a unique fusion of Toyota’s GA-B and GA-C platforms that has been designed to accommodate double-wishbone rear suspension, and the all-new, 258bhp 1.6-litre turbocharged engine is intended to allow for a future second-tier WRC2 competition car.
“We didn’t have many of the technologies we needed in-house, so everyone put in remarkable efforts to help us achieve the performance we wanted – and for an affordable cost.”That ‘affordable cost’ point is significant, and particularly so given the expense of developing such a singular car, one that will never sell in the sort of volumes for which the world’s biggest car maker would normally aim.
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