I was just reading an article about the GR Yaris and had a moment, please see below exert from the article.
“Instead it announced it was extending the life of the current Yaris rally car until 2022 when new ‘Rally 1’ regulations kick in requiring all cars competing at the top level in the WRC to be hybrid-powered and able to drive around the paddocks and through urbanised areas between stages on electricity alone. Why? Toyota isn’t saying though it seems likely that the coronavirus and the financial implications thereof has caused Toyota, like every other car manufacturer, to take a long hard look at its balance sheets. And developing what is near enough an entirely new car for a single season may not, in that context, have appeared like value.
But having done all that work and produced the road car from which the rally machine would have been derived, it would have been crazy not to recoup at least some of the costs by offering it for sale”
It’s not to far fetched a thought that Toyota will use the GR Yaris engine and running gear and evolve this into a hybrid system that will produce 300 BHP+ then place this into a beefed up Toyota Corolla shell. This would in essence have worldwide appeal + revenue.
“Instead it announced it was extending the life of the current Yaris rally car until 2022 when new ‘Rally 1’ regulations kick in requiring all cars competing at the top level in the WRC to be hybrid-powered and able to drive around the paddocks and through urbanised areas between stages on electricity alone. Why? Toyota isn’t saying though it seems likely that the coronavirus and the financial implications thereof has caused Toyota, like every other car manufacturer, to take a long hard look at its balance sheets. And developing what is near enough an entirely new car for a single season may not, in that context, have appeared like value.
But having done all that work and produced the road car from which the rally machine would have been derived, it would have been crazy not to recoup at least some of the costs by offering it for sale”
It’s not to far fetched a thought that Toyota will use the GR Yaris engine and running gear and evolve this into a hybrid system that will produce 300 BHP+ then place this into a beefed up Toyota Corolla shell. This would in essence have worldwide appeal + revenue.
