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[er88]

There's been quite a lot of stuff that's popped up on youtube with Toyota having track days/media days with the new road going car, with Meeke, Alonso and Jose Maria Lopes involved.

They are definitely hyping it up. Nice to see a manufacturer making a car like this again.

[HKSjbg]

There's been quite a lot of stuff that's popped up on youtube with Toyota having track days/media days with the new road going car, with Meeke, Alonso and Jose Maria Lopes involved.

They are definitely hyping it up. Nice to see a manufacturer making a car like this again.

Yeah I think that view is widely shared too. The thread on the Yaris GR on Pistonheads is just about the most universally approving, supportive and least polarising discussion the forum has ever had!

[Ricardo Filipe Matos]

This new Yaris is only for one year, right?
And then in 2022 will it be the Corolla?

[Portimao]

What's the point of developing a car just for one season?

[tommeke_B]

What's the point of developing a car just for one season?

To learn from that and use the knowledge for the development of the next generation car for the seasons after, which will be built from the same base car.

[Eli]

This new Yaris is only for one year, right?
And then in 2022 will it be the Corolla?

It depends what the regulations will be for 2022 on-wards but as it stands now it looks like we're going to stay with the B-segment cars for a few more years, next year it will be 10 years! since the first DS3 & Fiesta were introduced to the WRC stages back in... Rally Sweden...

[deephouse]

I'm more likely concerned that the amount of SUV's novadays on the road and many models of each brand (which by the way had maybe only one few years ago if they had any at all), that they will adapt more or less that kind of segment cars and modify to the regulations they will introduce. Also a many brands are introducing ''cross versions'' of hatchbacks and b segmen cars these days. Everything goes on electric/hybrid and SUV's.

[mknight]

Have you two not noticed that the news are already out that the new regulation allow scaled "siluette" cars with a spaceframe chassis? So it doesn't matter what cars manus produce.

[Eli]

Have you two not noticed that the news are already out that the new regulation allow scaled "siluette" cars with a spaceframe chassis? So it doesn't matter what cars manus produce.

Yeah I kinda forget about that for a minute there, my bad.

[Mirek]

What's the point of developing a car just for one season?

To learn from that and use the knowledge for the development of the next generation car for the seasons after, which will be built from the same base car.

The main reason is marketing. Toyota doesn't need to promote the old model but the new one.