New 2020 Toyota GR Yaris: £29,995 starting price for four-wheel drive hot hatch

Toyota has confirmed that the new GR Yaris will be priced from £29,995 for the base-model,  or £33,495 for the uprated Circuit pack variant. Toyota is yet to announce an official on sale date, but we’re expecting UK sales to start in the second half of 2020. first deliveries will arrive in November.
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The GR Yaris was developed collaboratively by Toyota Gazoo Racing and Tommi Mäkinen Racing, Toyota’s partner in the WRC. It features a range of motorsport-derived design features, such as an all-new 257bhp turbocharged three-cylinder engine, a dedicated two-door platform and a special chassis and suspension setup.

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It was officially unveiled at Tokyo automobile beauty parlor 2020 as the company’s most current flagship hot hatchback, created to give Toyota a competitive advantage in the world Rally championship where it is locked in battle with Korean rival Hyundai.
As such, the GR Yaris is the first “homologation special” produced for a generation, picking up where nineties rally legends such as the Celica GT-Four, Subaru Impreza and Mitsubishi Lancer evolution left off. Thirty years ago, rally policies forced makers to build thousands of special road automobiles that were closely linked to their equivalent competition vehicles, but current regulations, (introduced in 1997), removed this requirement.