You can take your League of Extraordinary Gentleman and your Knights of the Round Table and whatever other groups with cool names and banish them from the kingdom or whatever, because there’s a new angry little Toyota Yaris and it’s built by the Gazoo Racing Masters of the Nurburgring.
There is no cooler car on the planet right now than the World Rally Championship Toyota Yaris. Ever since it Toyota’s maddest peanut started testing, there’s been a sick, all-encompassing need among rally fans for an overpowered hot hatch Yaris that we common-folk can buy. Praise be to Toyota—they’re actually making…
The 2017 World Rally Championship’s new cars are rowdy and insane, but the most extreme looking of them all may be Toyota Gazoo Racing’s origami-looking Yaris WRC, with its many aerodynamic layers upon layers. It’s so far beyond a regular Yaris that it’s basically sisu in car form.
The Regular Car Review on the Scion iA made all the usual conclusions. Scion is dead because millenials have no money, it’s underpowered, the tacked-on nose looks funny, yadda yadda. Worst of all, though, Mr. Regular must cope with the idea that Toyota may no longer make its own small car for the United States in the…
Ever wonder what it would feel like to attempt a sweet trick in your commuter car?
This is rally legend and twice national plowing champion Tommi Mäkinen testing (and sort of breaking) Toyota’s future Yaris world rally car. To say that it sounds angry is an understatement.
Scion is dead, and the little Scion iA (a rebadged Mazda2 with a sad button) and Scion iM (a rebadged global-market Corolla Hatchback) are now the Yaris iA and Corolla iM. Praise be Corolla. Praise its power of absorption.
And then I saw this Japanese-market ad.
Look at that big goofy car-grin. It's so happy. Toyota unleashed Stéphane Sarrazin and Eric Camilli last week in their new Yaris WRC car on the stages of Monte Carlo. Watch this little happy racer dart through the narrow, twisty stage roads and try not to smile. It's impossible. You can't.
The cool thing about the World Rally Championship is carmakers get to turn their most absolutely boring cars into fire-belching, all-wheel-drive, turbocharged monsters. No transformation may be more extreme than this diminutive Yaris.
Toyota is reportedly constructing a prototype Yaris rally car for top-level WRC competition. Autocar claims the car will be for testing, and I imagine it would be for a next-generation program. And oh my sweet fancypants wonderpleasure please let that happen.
It's the car nobody cares about unveiled at a music festival not relevant since 1995. Yeah, I went to Lollapalooza. Once. Back in 1995. Me and my main man Dirty Bogus MC the Third went to see Pavement because they had them opening for Sinead O'Conner. Bald chicks throwing mud bombs at Spiral Stairs. What was Perry…
A truck carrying boulders through Derbyshire Peak District in the UK accidentally dropped one onto an unsuspecting Yaris. Luckily no one was injured and thankfully this Toyota won't be doing any unintended acceleration. (H/t to Andrew!) [Mirror]
In today's advertising world the question isn't whether your car commercial has a famous spokesperson, indie music or flashy graphics. The question is, when you turn on one of these ten sexually suggestive car commercials, does it return the favor?
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, never short of tests, put six mini/microcars to the roof strength test. The result? If you have to, you might be better off rolling a Smart Fortwo than flipping an Aveo.
Microcars are often chosen for urban driving because they're affordable, fuel efficient and easy to park. With fender-benders the largest urban driving hazard, the IIHS tested bumpers on seven popular microcars, None earned top marks and five were rated "Poor."
This morning's IIHS report on the shocking finding that little cars don't take well to colliding, at speed, with bigger cars? Now we have the crash videos. Let's take a look at all three below.
Toyota officials have announced they're working on a Toyota Yaris hybrid to take on the new Honda Insight hybrid for cheap hybrid supremacy. Muscle Car Wars? Ha! Let the Hybrid Car Wars begin.
