Toyota Yaris

Toyota has been eyeing the Honda City and Hyundai Verna space for a long time coming. The car that would help it fight the Honda and the Hyundai was often on the list of hopefuls but was dropped generation after generation for one reason or another. The car in question is the Toyota Yaris and it is finally here in India. Toyota will commence serial production of the car at its plant in Bidadi near Bengaluru later this month, and it will be available with a petrol engine only. It will, however, get both manual and automatic versions right from the word go, and because the car is locally produced, Toyota is likely to price it competitively alongside the City.Look at it head-on, and the recently facelifted and updated Yaris is an attractive-looking car The big black air dam makes the nose of the car look sporty, the headlights and badge gel nicely with the rest of the nose and the sweep of the roof is well executed too This clearly is no workman like the Etios Still, out on the road, the Yaris looks a bit smaller in the flesh than you expect The sedan is based on Toyota's global 'B' platform but differs from the car sold in Europe and other markets Whereas that car is called the XP130, this built-for- developing-markets car is designated 'XP150' The ride height on the Yaris has been raised for Indian roads and it now gets taller springs and stiffer dampers And Toyota engineers have also added acoustic glass windows, and additional sound-deadening material to help reduce engine and road noise While Toyota's mainstay in India is diesel, the Yaris will only be available with a petrol engine Putting out a decent 107hp, the 1 Read More