At the risk of sounding like a boomer who still quotes the price in guilders for everything, we cannot resist talking about the prices of the past. Four years ago, Toyota announced that the price of the GR Yaris had actually been lower and that you could take home the hot hatchback for 50,995 euros. Back then, it was already a ridiculous amount of money for a Yaris, but not for an almost full-fledged rally car.
We are now a pandemic, a BPM increase, a rule change plus an inflation bomb further, and Toyota has now announced the Dutch price of the updated GR Yaris. Just sit down for a moment. The Dutch price of the new Toyota GR Yaris is now minimum 81,795 euros. Then you are right about the Performance version, which cost 52,995 euros four years ago. This makes the GR Yaris more than 50 percent more expensive than before.
The Dutch price of the GR Yaris could be even higher
For the first time, the GR Yaris is available with a manual gearbox, which will cost you at least 94,295 euros. If you want the Premium version with larger rims, more safety systems and a JBL sound system, you will spend 85,795 or 98,295 euros. The latter price is for the machine. Then you pay a ton for a Toyota Yaris. The Dutch prices of the special editions are not yet known. In England, the special edition costs about 18,000 euros extra, so that gives you an idea of the additional cost.
If you park the old GR Yaris next to the new one, there are some differences. The updated version gets 20 hp and 30 Nm more, the interior has been revised for better ergonomics, the counters are digital and you have all the GSR obligations such as lane keeping assistant and blind spot warning. The three-cylinder now produces 280 hp plus 390 Nm and the power goes to all wheels.
It's a bit of a case of 'making a fuss about the prices of cars you're not going to buy', but it's still a shame, because nice cars like this are becoming increasingly rare. Hopefully people are crazy enough to pay almost a ton for the little rally monster, then we will at least have a nice second-hand market for when everything is electric.
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