You need to start another
online petition if you want Toyota to build an open-top version of the GR
Yaris, but with such cars becoming less popular, we truly doubt that they would
even consider making it. With that out of the way, let’s move on the digital
image of the car, which portrays it with the roof stowed behind the seats, a
couple of rollover bars and traditional antenna mounted on the windshield
frame.
XTomi kept it simple and left
the body kit, wheels, badges and others untouched, so a hypothetical GR Yaris
would look very similar to this rendering. Chopping the roof off would come
with an inevitable weight penalty, as the chassis would require further
strengthening. The suspension would have to be re-tuned, so the driving
dynamics of the car would be quite different.
It would also be a tad slower
to 100 km/h than the real model which does it in 5.5 seconds and maxes
out at 230 km/h. The 1.6-liter turbocharged three-pot pushes out 257
HP and 360 Nm of torque and is matched to a
six-speed manual gearbox and four-wheel drive.
We’re still waiting for Toyota
to drop the pricing details for the Euro-spec, but in Japan, where the GR Yaris
comes with 268 HP and 370 Nm, it will set you
back 3.96 million yen for the RZ 1st Edition and 4.56 million Yen for the RZ
High-Performance. At the current exchange rates, that’s US$ 36,029 and US$ 41,488,
respectively.
