GR Yaris
2020–present·Japan
Specifications
- Engine
- 1.6L Turbocharged Inline-3
- Engine Name
- G16E-GTS
- 0–100 km/h
- 5.5s
- Top Speed
- 230 km/h
- Power
- 304 hp
- Drivetrain
- AWD Front-Engine
- Transmission
- 6-speed iMT manual; 8-speed GAZOO Racing Direct Automatic on evolved models
- Units Made
- 1
- Year
- 2020–present
The Toyota GR Yaris
is a three-door, all-wheel-drive performance hatchback powered by the G16E-GTS 1.6-litre turbocharged inline-three engine.
The Toyota GR Yaris is not a normal Yaris with a stronger engine. It is a Gazoo Racing road car built from rally logic: three doors instead of five, a bespoke body, a carbon-compound roof, aluminium bonnet and doors, GR-FOUR all-wheel drive, and a turbocharged three-cylinder engine made to survive hard use. Toyota premiered the GR Yaris at the 2020 Tokyo Auto Salon as a homologation model born from its World Rally Championship programme. The original car used the G16E-GTS 1.6-litre inline-three turbo engine and a newly developed GR-FOUR sports 4WD system.
The GR Yaris matters because it restored an old pleasure: the idea that a small car could be engineered with absurd seriousness. In an era of heavy performance SUVs and digital grand tourers, Toyota built a short, wide, manual, all-wheel-drive hatchback whose body existed because rallying had asked difficult questions. The car’s story did not stop in 2020. Toyota’s 2024 European update raised output from 261 DIN hp and 360 Nm to 280 DIN hp and 390 Nm, added an eight-speed GAZOO Racing Direct Automatic Transmission option, increased body rigidity, and redesigned the cockpit around professional driver feedback. By 2026, the Japanese Type 26 GR Yaris had been raised further to 224 kW / 304 PS and 400 Nm, with Toyota describing the car as continuously refined through circuit racing and rally competition. For Engine Sphere, the GR Yaris is best archived as **Toyota GR Yaris (GXPA16)** when referring to the 1.6-litre turbo AWD road car.
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