As a GR owner I can say it is absolutely awesome. The grip this has for such a small car is amazing - literally tears the road surface off as it drives over...
I remember watching Vicki when I was in my very early teens and was hooked when I saw her passion and enthusiasm. Her talent and skill on the track is outstanding, I dont think many of the guys could even keep up with her! Ten years ago seeing her slide BMW's & Ferarri's around a track still gives me at 26 as much joy as it did as a teen. Then just recently I came across her electric series on Fifth gear and it was overwhelming happy nostalgia. To find out she has her own RUclips is been AMAZING. 10/10 driver, 10/10 presenter. I couldn't be more stoked! Thank you Vicki for your videos and putting a smile on my face!
Exciting video Vicki! I really like that you delved into the technical details/trivia that most other GR Yaris reviews have missed. Hope more people will see this car over its 'Yaris' badge. Just commenting and pressing the 'like' button to help youtube promote this video with their algorithm! Keep up the great work :D
I so want one of these but my girlfriend just doesn’t get it: “You’re thinking of trading in your BMW [430d m-sport] for a Toyota Yaris!?” 🤷🏻♂️ It’s not about the badge, it’s about the driving experience IMO. 😎😊
You should explain to your GF, you've decided to become a more responsible chap, and thus have decided to trade in your dumpster fire BMW for a reliable Toyota.
How good to see you again!! Free of Fifth Gear and we know that you can certainly drive and review with authority. You deserve far more subscribers so I am looking forward to your forthcoming films!! 😃😃😃
Great to see you presenting Vicki after all those Fifth Gear stories years ago - we in Australia also love our performance cars of which I’ve owned a Subaru WRX GC98 and XT Turbo Forester STI - Toyota have done a remarkable job and given us rocket with their typical reliability - Subaru have a legitimate competitor to measure against now and I’d be more than happy with the Yaris as my daily fun driver - John in SA
You're the only reviewer of this car that I've seen who has made this car slide. If memory serves you were a pro (rally?) driver before you became a reviewer. There are a fair few stultifying reviews of this car (looking at you What Car), I like that you brought it alive with your genuine enthusiasm.
I clicked on the video and subscribed instantly. I followed your videos and your shows for so many years. The difference between you and many youtubers is that you are knowledgeable, legit and genuinely talented.
Hi Vicki Awesome seeing you back reviewing cars .again. Love your Unique & always Entertaining videos. Could you please Review the new 2023 Honda Civic Type R . Subscribed 👍
Just found the channel, so have a few to catch up on. Maybe if I string a few of Tiff and Johnny's vids together too, it'll be like watching the perfect car show or something. Hope you guys do a few guest appearances together, a great way to let all the fans know of all the different projects you're doing.
Thanks for the awesome review Vicky. This car is for petrol heads. It seems to have the right appeal. I love the way it distributes power through the wheels with the different modes.
When in 1st set my eyes on this car .. immediately fell in love wt it. Looks and its technical bits. Placed a booking way back in nov 2020 even when toyota malaysia hadnt announced it was importing any. Finally they did. I was one of the early ones to get it. And it hasnt disappointed at all. Always enjoyed watching vicki in a car from top gear days. Only female car journalist id watch and listen to. Subscribed ! 👌
Hi, Bro, Hoo Mee. Hopefully once day we shall met up with our GR yaris here in Malaysi..haha . Like you I am one of the 127 very lucky GR owner! Vincent is my name 😉 Stay safe and the very best of health !
Excellent production and execution. The whole team on this have obviously worked hard to deliver Vicki at her best, well done all. Now the car, oh yes this is an excellent pocket rocket 🚀 I think it’s def going to stand the test of time. Future classic written all over it. I love a triple too, my Yamaha XSR900 is a triple and with a decat straight through pipe sounds naughty. Great torque on a triple with a nice top end too. Out of interest what lump has the rally chaps get in their Yaris?
Vicky still looking great and making interesting and captivating car content. Great work. That garage is epic too! I saw one of these Yaris’s on the road recently and they look awesome in the flesh.
Good review by someone who can really drive and has driven many cars. I mostly dismiss these hot hatches out of hand as they are simply too complex to make a sane buy for the long run. But, this one is a Toyota, a real one, not a rebadged Subaru or BMW. Real Toyota’s, even the fast ones are well engineered and durable. This is how I like my cars to be but not how most cars are. I think it probably is worth 30k.
Please keep smashing that glass ceiling! u rock!!! i think you might be in the top 3 of best automotive reviewers on youtube. Congratulations. Subscriptions and views incoming. TRUST the algorithm and keep pumping these out. Great video work and editing too. You're going to smash it!!!!
This is where Subaru should have been going instead of making heavy weight cars (we know they can do it, the 2003 STi Spec C 17 inch was only 35kg heavier at 1350kg than a CP GR Yaris at 1315kg).. The GRY has a lot going for it, a fairly limited run, its engine has overcone some of the issues of Direct Injection (mainly carbon build up behind the valves), a decent, compact AWD system and a decent price (for example, a Golf GTi is pushing £40k and a Cupra 300 is £36k) and the 5 year warranty. What I don't like, sound being fed through the speakers, poor front visibility due to console and mirror positioning, the "modes", 3 settings rather than fully adaptive (considering who Toyota owns, they could have done better). Now, the biggest issue I see with the GRY is none of the above, but the hype its been given by those reviewers, the flocks of younger drivers with not much experience of different drivetrains, shown how the super handling and grip will stop you flying off the road in all weathers, its a bit of a myth. AWD will bite the unaware hard (several yt vids prove this already), and for an 8k deposit plus £300 a month, its going to tempt the (poor) rally drivers to believe they are better than they really are. This isn't Toyota's fault in the main, but the reviewers only talking about the positives. This is a great car for an experienced driver, but it could be an expensive mistake for a novice who has fallen for the AWD (and torque split) hype.
Will be even more limited numbers if these get written off. It is however quite hard to get it wrong in a GR, you've got to be doing something pretty stupid to end up in trouble
I like the idea of the front and rear LSD and a proper handbrake although the lsd is a bit of a pricey extra, the weight saving is good too, even with a respectable HP output and a light small car to start off with a 3 cyl engine will have to work hard to pull the car along. The only thing i dont like is what a lot of manufacturers seem to be doing & feeding the engine sound into the car, i like most of the options but that can get in the bin. It looks to be a great car, hopefully some people who buy them will look after them rather than thrash it & run out of talent on a public road.
@@stephenpeacock2627 do you own one then? In real world, road driving, it's just as much fun but also more comfortable, has HUD, sat Nav, parking sensors and a couple of other bits. Most people don't have the driving ability, skill or opportunity on the road to truly gain any real benefit from the Circuit pack - although many, mistakenly, think they do! 🤣
Production at a high level, not quite Fifth Gear, but still - more importantly though, Vicki is one of the all-time great female automotive journalists. Sadly, there aren't many. This video just serves as another reason (and there ARE many) that Toyota can and will (if it wants) build superb performance machines on its own, which makes one believe even more that the real reason the 5th gen Supra was co-opped with München, was its need for hybrid tech... and look at the X5 hybrids sell. Anyway. Many interesting facts not heard in all the zillions of videos on this car. Well done, keep up the work!
I don't care how many female auto journalists we've got but rather the high quality of them instead of some "tokens" to make some cancel culture people happy 🤔
Love the channel Vicki. I bumped into you on press day at the NEC many a year ago while filming for JLR. 😊 Any chance of you doing some stuff with fast Fords 🔵 from the mid to late 80s?....If only I could go back in time 😊👍
I’m not sure which one turns me on more. I was already convinced about the car, hopefully sometime this year i’ll get one. Great review too. Learned a couple things that the other 50 reviews didn’t point out.
@@maxharris4208 , I’m in Australia. Of the 1500 or so sold here there are currently 63 available for sale with less than 1000km on the odo. Toyota did a special deal here and a lot were bought purely by flippers. They’re now finding that they weren’t the only ones with that idea, so they’re gonna have to either wait or lower their prices. Won’t be too hard to get one, and it’ll still be a good bit less than the current RRP.
I'll call Gwyndaf and tell him he's coming out of retirement...!!! I had Elfyn on my Auto Express podcast, as well, so have no excuse! Will remedy this one. Thanks for your support.
It’s unfortunate this isn’t available for the NA market. A friend of mine would’ve put down a deposit the moment it was available. Alas.. Great review Vicki! Keep them coming. 👏🏻
Toyota..in their global wisdom...have focused the release on the Circuit Pack model, to the uk where the petrol car will be banned from sales in 2030. And have AVOIDED all the car markets in the world where this car would sell like proverbial HOT CAKES!!!!
@@Mexxx65 - Toyota haven't, UK get option of normal, convenience pack or circuit pack. Some potential buyers in UK are put off that they can't have both convenience & circuit packs on same car. Most UK buyers opt for the circuit pack as Toyota have some excellent finance offers.
@@Mexxx65 well eFuel is coming so the ban might change which I hope there is no ban. I live in the UK and recently I have seen quite a few of these driving around
@@Mexxx65 they should replace the Proace (rebadged Peugeot Expert) with the Hiace in the UK because if I want a Toyota van I want a Toyota van not a Peugeot van and they should sell these with the circuit pack in Australia and Zew Zealand
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As a GR owner I can say it is absolutely awesome. The grip this has for such a small car is amazing - literally tears the road surface off as it drives over...
I remember watching Vicki when I was in my very early teens and was hooked when I saw her passion and enthusiasm. Her talent and skill on the track is outstanding, I dont think many of the guys could even keep up with her! Ten years ago seeing her slide BMW's & Ferarri's around a track still gives me at 26 as much joy as it did as a teen. Then just recently I came across her electric series on Fifth gear and it was overwhelming happy nostalgia. To find out she has her own RUclips is been AMAZING. 10/10 driver, 10/10 presenter. I couldn't be more stoked! Thank you Vicki for your videos and putting a smile on my face!
Yes she is a very good driver and a great and enthusiastic presenter as well , and beautiful as well !!!.
Class as always, I’m still not tired of seeing and hearing about the GR Yaris....
From day 1 every day I am following the news about the car, I hope one day I will be a owner of one, In Love with it...
Exciting video Vicki! I really like that you delved into the technical details/trivia that most other GR Yaris reviews have missed. Hope more people will see this car over its 'Yaris' badge. Just commenting and pressing the 'like' button to help youtube promote this video with their algorithm! Keep up the great work :D
I'll never forget being so impressed watching you drift a 500SEC in the late 80's and enjoyed watching you ever since
I saw my first one 'in the flesh' this weekend...being driven my a gent who looked 60-something-years-old.
"Fair play", I said. "Fair play"...
I so want one of these but my girlfriend just doesn’t get it: “You’re thinking of trading in your BMW [430d m-sport] for a Toyota Yaris!?” 🤷🏻♂️ It’s not about the badge, it’s about the driving experience IMO. 😎😊
As much as I love my M140i....its making way for the GR ! I've never laughed so much in 30 years of driving 🤣
You need to trade your gf too.
Ditch the b.. n GRab the GR
Just swapped m235cc
Yaris is ten times the car
You should explain to your GF, you've decided to become a more responsible chap, and thus have decided to trade in your dumpster fire BMW for a reliable Toyota.
How good to see you again!! Free of Fifth Gear and we know that you can certainly drive and review with authority. You deserve far more subscribers so I am looking forward to your forthcoming films!! 😃😃😃
Really good review Vicky, better than all the others by those that can’t even drive let alone make informed comparisons. Keep up the good work.
Only thinking recently how much I missed Vicki, here she is!
you were always my favourite presenter on Fifth Gear..love the new channel...no nonsense review....SUBSCRIBED
Great to see you presenting Vicki after all those Fifth Gear stories years ago - we in Australia also love our performance cars of which I’ve owned a Subaru WRX GC98 and XT Turbo Forester STI - Toyota have done a remarkable job and given us rocket with their typical reliability - Subaru have a legitimate competitor to measure against now and I’d be more than happy with the Yaris as my daily fun driver - John in SA
Excellent, what a little tool!!
Great to have you on your own channel too, keep ‘em coming!
An instant icon. Simply superb production quality Vicki, we'd expect nothing less :) Can't wait to see more!
Such a cracking little machine. Really want one along side my Abarth. Another great review Vicki!
Simply put.... a very informative & impressive review as usual, thank you, VBH 👍
Great test and really enjoying the way you communicate your passion!!!Keep going on!
You're the only reviewer of this car that I've seen who has made this car slide. If memory serves you were a pro (rally?) driver before you became a reviewer. There are a fair few stultifying reviews of this car (looking at you What Car), I like that you brought it alive with your genuine enthusiasm.
Have a look for the Chris Harris video
I clicked on the video and subscribed instantly. I followed your videos and your shows for so many years. The difference between you and many youtubers is that you are knowledgeable, legit and genuinely talented.
Great little car, and great review and explnation about it! Congratulations and very welcome to the channel! Stay safe!
I subscribed right away soon as I recognized Vicki from the fifth gear. Your reputation precedes you. Fantastic work.
What lovely words for me to read. Thank you!
One of my favourite car reviewer, reviewing the car of the moment...brilliant and keep em coming...🤘
I will do my best!
Great to see you Vicki back on cars after Fifth gear!
Love this channel!
Fantastic video!!! 👌🚀🏎
Great work VBH!!!
love your reviews vicky great see the gr yaris
Glad to see you back on our screens VBH. Great review, just like we remember.
Yay Yaris yay 👍😀 nicely done VBH.. wish you all the best in your new endeavour... 🙏
Lovely! We need more cars like this
Great video. Very interesting review. Madingley and Granchester are pretty places to film ! 👍
Hi Vicky! I just found your channel 😊..and subscribed...you and Tiff made 5th Gear for me! Much success 💖
Another new subscriber for you Vicky!
Amazing content 👌
It's got the bark of a Chihuahua but the *drool* of a St Bernard. 😊
one of my
favourite car reviewer..Vicky!!
Now that car should be in your garage, I remember kiting you out with bike leathers at Bike stop ten years plus ago, all the best.
Great review Vicki!
Great review
Really good writing, lovely video!
Great review Vikki, if I had the cash this would be sitting on my driveway.
Still looking good Vicky, on and off the roads, hope Charlie is doing well. 😉👍🏻
sorry wasn't listening ! 😂 after all these years , still the hottest motoring journo ever ! 😜 good work vicky x ps luving the monster 👍
Hey, it's Vicky from Fifth Gear! Subscribed!
Hi Vicki
Awesome seeing you back reviewing cars .again. Love your Unique & always Entertaining videos.
Could you please Review the new 2023 Honda Civic Type R .
Subscribed 👍
Great video as always 👍
Just found the channel, so have a few to catch up on. Maybe if I string a few of Tiff and Johnny's vids together too, it'll be like watching the perfect car show or something. Hope you guys do a few guest appearances together, a great way to let all the fans know of all the different projects you're doing.
Well done Vicki 😊
Thanks for the awesome review Vicky. This car is for petrol heads. It seems to have the right appeal. I love the way it distributes power through the wheels with the different modes.
The car is great but it was Vicki's return that really made this video great!
Love it, cheers VHB 👍🏁
Its VBH you heathen. 😊
Nice job Vicky 👍🏻
When in 1st set my eyes on this car .. immediately fell in love wt it. Looks and its technical bits.
Placed a booking way back in nov 2020 even when toyota malaysia hadnt announced it was importing any. Finally they did. I was one of the early ones to get it. And it hasnt disappointed at all.
Always enjoyed watching vicki in a car from top gear days. Only female car journalist id watch and listen to. Subscribed ! 👌
Hi, Bro, Hoo Mee. Hopefully once day we shall met up with our GR yaris here in Malaysi..haha
. Like you I am one of the 127 very lucky GR owner! Vincent is my name 😉
Stay safe and the very best of health !
Excellent production and execution. The whole team on this have obviously worked hard to deliver Vicki at her best, well done all.
Now the car, oh yes this is an excellent pocket rocket 🚀 I think it’s def going to stand the test of time. Future classic written all over it. I love a triple too, my Yamaha XSR900 is a triple and with a decat straight through pipe sounds naughty. Great torque on a triple with a nice top end too.
Out of interest what lump has the rally chaps get in their Yaris?
Vicky still looking great and making interesting and captivating car content. Great work. That garage is epic too! I saw one of these Yaris’s on the road recently and they look awesome in the flesh.
Looks a real giggle, if only I could. Thanks VHB
Great work Vicky Broadbean Harvester 👍
Gwyndaf Evans?! You’re showing your age, Vicki 😂
Wonderful! Just found Your Channel. Subscribed. 👍🏼
Good review by someone who can really drive and has driven many cars. I mostly dismiss these hot hatches out of hand as they are simply too complex to make a sane buy for the long run. But, this one is a Toyota, a real one, not a rebadged Subaru or BMW. Real Toyota’s, even the fast ones are well engineered and durable. This is how I like my cars to be but not how most cars are. I think it probably is worth 30k.
How did I not know that VBH had her own RUclips channel...? Subscribed!
Vicki is the best! More, please.
Love the ducati monster in the background 😍
Please keep smashing that glass ceiling! u rock!!! i think you might be in the top 3 of best automotive reviewers on youtube. Congratulations. Subscriptions and views incoming. TRUST the algorithm and keep pumping these out. Great video work and editing too. You're going to smash it!!!!
This is where Subaru should have been going instead of making heavy weight cars (we know they can do it, the 2003 STi Spec C 17 inch was only 35kg heavier at 1350kg than a CP GR Yaris at 1315kg)..
The GRY has a lot going for it, a fairly limited run, its engine has overcone some of the issues of Direct Injection (mainly carbon build up behind the valves), a decent, compact AWD system and a decent price (for example, a Golf GTi is pushing £40k and a Cupra 300 is £36k) and the 5 year warranty.
What I don't like, sound being fed through the speakers, poor front visibility due to console and mirror positioning, the "modes", 3 settings rather than fully adaptive (considering who Toyota owns, they could have done better).
Now, the biggest issue I see with the GRY is none of the above, but the hype its been given by those reviewers, the flocks of younger drivers with not much experience of different drivetrains, shown how the super handling and grip will stop you flying off the road in all weathers, its a bit of a myth.
AWD will bite the unaware hard (several yt vids prove this already), and for an 8k deposit plus £300 a month, its going to tempt the (poor) rally drivers to believe they are better than they really are.
This isn't Toyota's fault in the main, but the reviewers only talking about the positives.
This is a great car for an experienced driver, but it could be an expensive mistake for a novice who has fallen for the AWD (and torque split) hype.
Will be even more limited numbers if these get written off. It is however quite hard to get it wrong in a GR, you've got to be doing something pretty stupid to end up in trouble
I like the idea of the front and rear LSD and a proper handbrake although the lsd is a bit of a pricey extra, the weight saving is good too, even with a respectable HP output and a light small car to start off with a 3 cyl engine will have to work hard to pull the car along. The only thing i dont like is what a lot of manufacturers seem to be doing & feeding the engine sound into the car, i like most of the options but that can get in the bin. It looks to be a great car, hopefully some people who buy them will look after them rather than thrash it & run out of talent on a public road.
I have one of these Vicki, it's wonderful! I have the Convenience pack version and it's fun, fun, fun!! 👍
Why the hell did you get the convenience pack, circuit pack is the only option, you’ve missed out on a big part of the car
@@stephenpeacock2627 do you own one then? In real world, road driving, it's just as much fun but also more comfortable, has HUD, sat Nav, parking sensors and a couple of other bits. Most people don't have the driving ability, skill or opportunity on the road to truly gain any real benefit from the Circuit pack - although many, mistakenly, think they do! 🤣
Great choice Phil 😉👍
Production at a high level, not quite Fifth Gear, but still - more importantly though, Vicki is one of the all-time great female automotive journalists. Sadly, there aren't many. This video just serves as another reason (and there ARE many) that Toyota can and will (if it wants) build superb performance machines on its own, which makes one believe even more that the real reason the 5th gen Supra was co-opped with München, was its need for hybrid tech... and look at the X5 hybrids sell. Anyway. Many interesting facts not heard in all the zillions of videos on this car. Well done, keep up the work!
I don't care how many female auto journalists we've got but rather the high quality of them instead of some "tokens" to make some cancel culture people happy 🤔
Love the channel Vicki. I bumped into you on press day at the NEC many a year ago while filming for JLR. 😊 Any chance of you doing some stuff with fast Fords 🔵 from the mid to late 80s?....If only I could go back in time 😊👍
I’m not sure which one turns me on more. I was already convinced about the car, hopefully sometime this year i’ll get one. Great review too. Learned a couple things that the other 50 reviews didn’t point out.
Hope you ordered it last year...I ordered mine in January and hope to take delivery in January 2022. The wait is frustrating but will be worth it.
@@maxharris4208 , I’m in Australia. Of the 1500 or so sold here there are currently 63 available for sale with less than 1000km on the odo. Toyota did a special deal here and a lot were bought purely by flippers. They’re now finding that they weren’t the only ones with that idea, so they’re gonna have to either wait or lower their prices. Won’t be too hard to get one, and it’ll still be a good bit less than the current RRP.
Reminds me of the South African Toyota Conquest RSi from the 90`s, a little hatch that punched way above its weight!
Love the review
Good review and a welcome new channel 👍
Proper handbrake, not dead yet! :-)
subscribed....happy to see you on your own channel where your enthusiasm can flourish
Great one.
let's have more soon Vicki thanks you are one hell of a driver
Nice review Vicki, although its Sébastien Ogier and Elfyn Evans in the WRC car. Welsh rally legend Gwyndaf is his Dad !! 😉
Although I'd love to see Gwyndaf have a go of the rally car
I'll call Gwyndaf and tell him he's coming out of retirement...!!! I had Elfyn on my Auto Express podcast, as well, so have no excuse! Will remedy this one. Thanks for your support.
Great to know that there are no automated options. The manual gearbox and roll.
Perfect pocket rocket with character just like our Vic, can someone please release a race track for lady Henderson 🙏
Oh hello. Didn't know you had a YT channel. Cool :)
Think you enjoyed that VBH 😄
would love to have one of these-my little mitsubishi mirage/spacestar gets the job done with its 3cyl but certainly lacks grunt haha
ruclips.net/video/0afbQtDpN5k/видео.html
Check this out, what could have been had Mitsubishi had any money left.
OMG this channel is SO overdue!!
How long have you been doing this Vicki? Still got it girl!!
Thank you
Will the GR Yaris go down as the most watched car Vid. After 6 months still going strong. PS Good Vid.
I wish we could get one without the stupid infotainment screen. Brilliant video by the way!
Looking forward to more Vicki - subbed :)
The best😎🤘
It’s unfortunate this isn’t available for the NA market. A friend of mine would’ve put down a deposit the moment it was available. Alas..
Great review Vicki! Keep them coming. 👏🏻
Toyota..in their global wisdom...have focused the release on the Circuit Pack model, to the uk where the petrol car will be banned from sales in 2030. And have AVOIDED all the car markets in the world where this car would sell like proverbial HOT CAKES!!!!
@@Mexxx65 I think more of having it go thru safety and what not. Government regulations still hurt some models when you attempt to sell them in NA.
@@Mexxx65 - Toyota haven't, UK get option of normal, convenience pack or circuit pack. Some potential buyers in UK are put off that they can't have both convenience & circuit packs on same car. Most UK buyers opt for the circuit pack as Toyota have some excellent finance offers.
@@Mexxx65 well eFuel is coming so the ban might change which I hope there is no ban. I live in the UK and recently I have seen quite a few of these driving around
@@Mexxx65 they should replace the Proace (rebadged Peugeot Expert) with the Hiace in the UK because if I want a Toyota van I want a Toyota van not a Peugeot van and they should sell these with the circuit pack in Australia and Zew Zealand
Pocket! Rocket! 🚀👍
Would love to see you Johny and tiff reunite for a RUclips video at some point in the future.
Phenomenal
I see vicki butler Henderson. I sub.
Subbed
I see Vicky, i click like and subscribe!
Fantastic car but why as no one in the after market doing any rally type items just track set up? Even the exhaust systems.
It's how all cars should be 😎🚘🚙🚗 ie gearstick, handbrake and turbo charged.. 💨😁
Very easy to subscribe to!
Like and subcribed!
A big want here..