Toyota says the 2024 update has been honed on rally stages again. Time to put that to the test...
I remember the first UK test drives of the Toyota GR Yaris back in 2020, a couple of years before my time here at PH, where after a morning of hooning about, I bumped into our very own Nic C. I needn't have asked him if he'd had as much fun on the route as me - the subsequent PHwas brimmed with superlatives.
Before we get to the sliding, a bit of housekeeping. First of all, the lofty driving position has indeed been fixed . The seats have been lowered by 25mm, not least because Toyota’s own rally drivers lobbied for them to be mounted closer to the floor. The dash has also been lowered by 50mm too, drastically improving visibility over its predecessor’s letterbox-like cabin, while the new digital instruments and larger infotainment screen have been brought together in one massive housing.
It doesn’t stop there. Like before, you get two Torsen limited-slip differentials and a trio of drive modes to control the adaptive central clutch pack. The Normal setting remains the same on the new car, splitting the torque 60:40 between the two axles, while the reworked Track setting varies between 60:40 and 30:70 depending on how hard you’re driving.
There’s a fair bit to unpack concerning its newfound consistency. First of all, the 2024 GR Yaris just feels as though it has a good chunk more poke than its predecessor. Though 20hp isn’t exactly a giant leap, the fact that the torque arrives a touch earlier than before means the dinky three pot up front responds quicker to your inputs. There’s also more urgency in the steering.
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