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I've just seen the undisguised photos. It's not massively changed but the changes aren't for the better; the rear bumper used to have a couple of creases which stopped it looking slabby but now it's just a big flat mass:


The front looks a bit fussy and unfinished, and the GR Four script on the intercooler is naff:

And that dashboard is the final thing:

Urgh, that dash is awful, and we thought the original ‘new’ GTR dash was bad when that came out!

Really does look like something out of a bus / truck

Would have been nice to actually do something unusual and fit lots of normal gauges ( even if they were actually lcd screens ) and no big ugly infotainment thing.

They should have switched to funky OZ wheels as standard.

Jobbo wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:19 am And that dashboard is the final thing:

I had to look at the old one to see what they changed as I’m not familiar

Now I always hate the plopped on afterthought infotainment screens - I haven’t seen a car where it doesn’t look better when it’s integrated. Until now that is.
Mind you they’re both pretty terrible.

MikeHunt wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 11:38 am

Jobbo wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:19 am And that dashboard is the final thing:

The box in a box in a box for the Nav is pretty special.. they should be applauded for keeping rotary temp controls but what sort of animal selects temps like that!

I like the new wheels and the back looks more Yaris-y, so maybe they’re trying to make people think the cooking version is connected somehow? Don’t mind the front, but would probably get it in black to hid some of the fussiness

I like the front but driving it will just give me PTSD that a small rock will go right through the condenser/intercooler/rad

Just saw these on Twitter and yes, @Jobbo is 100% correct in all the observations.

Interior is kinda reminiscent of the Mk4 Supra, although rather than a slab of plastic with dials set into it, this is a slab of plastic with screens on it.

At least the dash board leaves something for the aftermarket cottage industry

The new dash is similar to the GT86, very much function over form.

mik wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:35 am They should have switched to funky OZ wheels as standard.

I know nearly everyone sticks a set of those on them, but I hate them. I dislike the extra bend on the spokes and the way the spokes overlap the centre disk. Pointless fussying up a classic design. It have to put some compomotive THs on mine, even if I stuck OZ stickers on

integrale_evo wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 4:38 pm
I know nearly everyone sticks a set of those on them, but I hate them.
It have to put some compomotive THs on mine

Oh they look epic too. Arguably epic-er

1000% yes

I’m glad Compomotives are still the alloys of choice

I've just seen the Carwow video and the interior looks even worse from the passenger seat...it's horrendous. Looks like a cheap van.

Be interesting on the sales figures between manual and auto in the UK though....

I quite like the new dash, it puts me in mind of cheaply-made 80s hot hatches, and also the "sheet of metal with dials in" aesthetic of Group B rally cars

The CarWow video is really interesting, they've clearly listened to feedback and made some thoughtful improvements

Still mystifies me when a car can be released with something so glaringly "wrong" with it (I don't think I've seen any review of the original GR Yaris that didn't complain about the height of the seats)

The fact they've dropped them an inch for the new version makes me think it wouldn't have been hard to do that for the original (as opposed to some complex engineering issue that wasn't easily circumvented)

I imagine one of these would be a hoot...

It wouldn’t have been hard to drop the seats. It would however have been expensive to run full crash tests over again and as it was a homologation special where the regs changed under it I imagine Toyotas willingness to throw more money at it had long passed