This wrecked GR Yaris serves as a testament to just how hard Toyota tests its new cars
Toyota is displaying the wrecked hot hatch at one of its new R&D centers in Japan. Sitting alongside Toyoda in the GR Yaris was nine-time Japan rally champion Norihiko Katsuta. Toyoda's crash came just a month before the facelifted GR Yaris was unveiled. Toyota chairman Akio Toyoda absolutely loves racing and is the man largely responsible for a fleet of compelling Gazoo performance models. However, in December last year, he managed to crash a GR Yaris specially prepped for rallying.
It shows Toyoda pulling the handbrake of the GR Yaris for a tight left-hand bend before he attempted to powerslide the car through a right hairpin. However, he turned in a little too early and hit a mound of gravel and rocks at the apex. The force of the impact immediately flipped the Toyota onto its side before it rolled onto its roof, leaving Toyoda and his co-driver hanging upside down.
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