New Toyota GR Yaris 2020 - Official Presentation Footage
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- Опубликовано: 9 ноя 2020
- When Toyota announced its return to the World Rally Championship in 2015, the concept of building a rally-inspired sports car was part of the plan. The vision was to take technical knowledge and experience from the highest level of international competition and apply them to a new road car that is also suitable for competition driving, and an affordable proposition for customers.
For Toyota President Akio Toyoda, the creation of a sports car made purely by Toyota - the first in 20 years - was a personal ambition. Following on from winning the WRC manufacturers’ championship in 2018, he saw a winning car as being key to achieving global recognition as a true auto manufacturer.
The GR Yaris is that car, built from scratch and designed to win at highest levels. It is Toyota’s second global GR model, following the successful launch of the GR Supra in 2018.
There were basic challenges to be met in terms of technical know-how and creating a car that customers would buy. From the outset, the development team worked closely with Tommi Mäkinen Racing to better understand how their goals could be achieved. It was a detailed and labour-intensive process, but one which has yielded strong results in terms of a car that has an ideal combination of rigid, lightweight construction, an agile and responsive chassis and a powerful yet compact turbo engine.
Professional rally drivers, including members of TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Team, drove the prototype models and provided valuable feedback. Testing was also carried out by Akio Toyoda in his expert role as a Toyota Master Driver.
The GR Yaris is built on a unique platform, combining Toyota’s new GA-B platform (which debuted on the new generation Yaris hatchback) and a rear section adapted from the GA-C platform used for the Corolla and C-HR. The rally team emphasised the importance of light weight and this is reflected in the use of aluminium body panels and a forged carbon composite roof in the body structure, and scrutiny of how weight could be reduced in parts throughout the car.
For the best possible aerodynamic performance, the body itself is another unique element: although based on the new Yaris hatchback, it is a three rather than five-door model, with a lower, tapering roof line. This has been designed specifically to direct wind flow onto the large rear rally car spoiler to generate extra downforce. As with a competition car, the shaping of the lower body efficiently channels airflow down the sides of the vehicle.
The engine is also all-new, a 1.6-litre, three-cylinder turbocharged unit. It is the world’s most powerful three-cylinder engine and also the smallest and lightest 1.6 turbo. Producing 261 DIN hp and 360 Nm of torque, it complies with WRC2 technical regulations and can launch the GR Yaris from rest to 100 km/h in just 5.5 seconds, and on to an electronically limited top speed of 230 km/h. Its construction makes use of features derived directly from motor sport, including a ball bearing turbocharger, large-diameter exhaust valves and multi-jet oil piston cooling.
A kerb weight of just 1,280 kg gives the GR Yaris an excellent weight-to-power ratio of 4.9 kg per 1 DIN hp.
Engine power is harnessed through a Toyota’s new GR-FOUR permanent, electronically controlled all-wheel drive system. Another competition-inspired feature, this provides three driving modes with different front/rear drive torque to suit the conditions - Normal, Track and Sport.
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Congratulations Toyota!! Amazing achievement!!!
Akio Toyoda is a real car-man, Glory for this industry.
The GR Yaris is an AMAZING piece of automotive machinery. People who just dismiss it as a "regular" Yaris don't care to know what makes it such an phenomenal driver's car. Great job Toyota! "We have to keep doing rigorous tests because we will use these cars for 20 - 30 years." - Akio Toyoda. This statement right here from the head of Toyota is why Toyota has earned that reputation for "legendary Toyota quality". Quality is never an accident. They don't just build cars that are great for the moment, they engineer cars that will still be great decades down the road. This is one of the reasons why I am a proud owner of a Toyota. You may lease other cars but a Toyota is a car you buy to own. Just sad we don't get a GR Yaris here in the States but I am excited to see what the team can do with a GR Corolla. Keep up the great work Toyota!
Looking forward to receiving our GR Yaris at the end of this month.
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Thanks for the newsletter, it was what brought me here.
I don’t blame Imran for going ahead and placing an order right away after seeing the car for the first time @ the Tokyo Auto Salon.
Haven’t always been a fan of normal Toyota production cars, but their LMP1 victory trifecta got me interested in whatever the TGR team were making.
Planning to get one to test drive, hopefully the one with the Circuit pack.
I wish all manufacturers released videos like this for exciting new cars
Well done Toyota. Well done.
GR YARIS it's toy for real riders 😍
I ordered one yesterday, Pearl white + track pack. Arriving March 21. As a traditional M car owner I never thought I’d buy a ‘Yaris’ but they’ve got too big and too expensive so here we are. Well done Toyota 👍🏻
Cool
I ordered mine on Friday, red+track pack, arriving at the same time. As Lotus and Porsche 911 owner I never thought buying Yaris for fun... The same story... I can't wait to get it !!!!
@@scheberoff2992 Nice.......
I AM LOOKING FORWARD WHEN IT COME TO THAILAND,,I HOPE I WILL GET ONE.I LIKE.
also M owner.. Test driving on Saturday......
Many thanks for Akio Toyota for this amazing car which make me smile when I drove it.
I hope they will make even hard core version with less 80-100 kg. Another 50 bhp. And stiffness suspensions. Good luck to Toyota with this amazing car . It is the firs time I want to buy Toyota after 30 years of driving sport cars .
Thank you TOYOTA. I'm proud of a GR Yaris owner.
The Evolve Automotive Group brought me here.
Haven’t always been a fan of normal Toyota production cars, but their LMP1 victory trifecta got me interested in whatever the TGR team were making.
Looks like a car that will sell very well in Nigeria 🇳🇬.
Planning to get one to test drive, hopefully the one with the Circuit pack.
In the UK you should be able to specify both Circuit pack and convenience pack, not just one or the other.
Unless there is a special edition coming which will have both and some other extras.
I agree as I would deffo spec both
ordered mine today in australia cant wait
Congratulations Toyota Gazoo Racing!
Superb!
Take my money
And what about the GR Yaris seen at the Nurburgring with a big wing, large vented front wings and canards on the front.... is this a harder core GRMN version?
I don't think the local dealers will sell the GR yaris here.
but I am also curious about the "Future" Yaris GR Sport mentioned in 6:49
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My mom doesnt understand she thought it is similar to normal Yaris
I WANT ONE IN THE STATES😭
In fact, the Yaris GR would be a better shot at capturing their youth market than Scion was.
It's a big disapointement that this car will compete in WRC... I really wanted to see Toyota rallying at it's best.
No disrespect, but I think when they describe this awd system as "4wd" and therefore "theoretically capable of 0/100 f/r or 100/0" but in practice running "60/40" (normal), "30/70" (sport)" and "50/50" (track)- they are using some mechanical and descriptive trickery to achieve what they state. From their diagrams, this is not a true 4wd after all, but another "Haldex-style" awd.
Power does not go from engine to transmission to transfer case and then to both f/r. Instead it goes from engine to transmission to front axle THEN to a fancy clutch pack attached to the front of the rear axle, THEN the rear axle itself. Very similar to Golf R. So in operation, the front axle power can never actually be lessened or increased-or turned off, as "0/100" would imply. The rear axle is simply connected to the front axle-and therefore engine power- when the "electronically-controlled multiplate clutch" is engaged. Like the Golf R.
Here's where the GRY differs from the Golf R and takes a cue from the Focus RS. If you listened closely, they said the front and rear diffs have DIFFERENT gear ratios. So the rear axle has taller gears than the front axle in the GR. Now, engaging that multiplate clutch fully makes the rear spin faster than the front. Running this way full time would make the car probably a disaster to drive with the rear axle constantly trying to overtake the front. So the computer runs that clutch in a state of constantly slipping. The amount of slip varies the force of that overtaking effect from the rear. This way, you can have a lot of slip to make the front the dominant-feeling axle, moderate slip to equalize the rear overtaking effect with the conventional front axle power delivery, minimal slip to add a little rear overtaking effect. But this is not the same as the true 4wd, nor is it the same as the true awd systems of Subaru or Audi (true, not Haldex) Quattro. Because in this case they are really meaning "wheel torque" when they say f/r torque distribution, not the distribution of the engine torque or power f/r. And the GR COULD in theory run 100% engine power to the front and zero to the rear if the rear multiplate clutch was completely disconnected. But it is physically impossible that it could not drive the front axle at all and run 100% engine torque or power to the rear. Impossible.
The problem with the industry is the playing fast and loose with the word "torque" and "torque distribution" of awd systems and differentials too. Not specifying "wheel torque" or "engine torque". In the end, I guess what matters is whether or not the GR Yaris has an effective and sporty-feeling awd system because I want one badly, lol. The rest is just academics and semantics for us awd snobs.
As a Golf R owner, I’m interested in this feisty hot hatch. Testing a demo in mid-December. We shall see.
Nice explanation btw. 👍🇬🇧
@@stevecotterill7981 as a fellow Golf R owner and also a fan of this new GRY, I would be interested in a follow-up report on your test drive!
Torque needs to have resistance, put car on 60:40 mode, front wheels on ice, rear wheels on tarmac and voila you have almost 100% torque to the rear wheels. Applies for Golf R 7 as well, as gen8 haldex can fully lock itself. It is technical term that marketing people have used in a wrong way and confusing people. People don’t understand that if you lock 50:50 does not mean that front axel gets half the engine torque and the rear another half. If one axel looses traction it does not mean that you loose 50% of engine power, still 100% of engine power will be applied to the axel with traction. Hope it explains why they say up to 100% to each axel.