We price our vehicles consistently throughout the world which requires us to adjust pricing to foreign currency exchange rates.

Ugh

Never was a fan of the 06+ Yaris looks.

Exactly. The Echo sedans were the same cheese grater shape north and south of the border. You would have had to waterboard me to make me buy one of those. And they were still everywhere.

There was a local racing series, of cars you would buy straight from Toyota, prepped with a cage and safety equipment. They had to swap the slicks for partial slicks to stop the cars from tipping over when hitting the curbs at the apex.

Toyota Yaris/Vitz/Echo depending on market.

Yup. In Montréal, sometimes there would be four other ones in the same stretch of parked cars as mine.

RS in blue was the one I had. With a manual. A manual! :-)

It did have the central gauge cluster. But I got the 2005 in June 2004, at an insanely high finance rate, because it had a tachometer.

The US’ aversion to hatchbacks is so bad, that Toyota designed a Canadian-only model, the Echo Hatchback (from the euro and Japanese version), for two (2!) model years, in 2004-2005. For Canada! And it sold like hot-cakes!

To me this is fascinating. I recently move from Québec, Canada, to California. In the process, my girlfriend and I got married back home before leaving. No name changes.

Just as click-bait-y.

Click bait? I know I fell for it.

If not tracking like a pro, who cares about the weight of about one passenger! It looks fantastic! And robot roofs are awesome. :)

Where is that supercut again?

I am in the less is more camp. My ‘09 and ‘14 WRX were 5 speed manuals in an era where that was frowned upon (oh, the online hate).

Wow, the discussion here is fantastic...

FBI:

Man, look at that sucker go!