Jyväskylä in Finland plays a key role in refining the new hot Yaris - we meet the engineers who were told to break it
Kievari Rantapirtti, located about 30 miles outside Jyväskylä in the heart of Finland’s ‘1000 Lakes’ region, is occasionally referred to as the ‘House of Kalle’. Rovanperä, that is: the double World Rally Champion grew up just minutes away and honed his preternatural driving talents at the forest complex, on both its gravel tracks in summer and its frozen ice lake in winter. Now it’s my turn on that frozen lake – and I’m behind the wheel of a Toyota GR Yaris to boot.
“It’s not just marketing. In the past I worked for manufacturers where it was all about the marketing, but we want to learn from the WRC and bring it to the GR Yaris.” Toyota’s Gazoo Racing arm has a simple development mantra: develop, race, break, fix. So when the test mule was first brought to Finland, Latvala and his team-mates were told to break it.
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