Toyota yaris Small Car

Toyota yaris 2011

The 2011 Toyota Yaris is the best car for you if you want a no-worries fuel-sipper that acts bigger than its tiny size suggests – and didn’t suffer unintended-acceleration recalls.

The 2011 Toyota Yaris subcompact leverages light weight and modest power to achieve hybrid-like fuel economy. How does 29 mpg in the city and 35 on the highway sound? And that’s with automatic transmission and room for four adults. The 2011 toyota  Yaris is treated to some new colors and like all Toyotas – recalled or not – receives an electronic brake-override system. Prices for the 2011 toyota Yaris start at a friendly $13,615. As the most desirable models tickle $16,000, however, you’ll need confidence in your priorities to resist the call of a larger car.

Should you buy a 2011 Toyota Yaris or wait for the 2012 Toyota Yaris? If you’re on a strict budget and need a new small car today, the 2011 toyota  Yaris won’t disappoint. The 2012 toyota Yaris isn’t apt to get any compelling new features, but if you can wait for it you’ll be better positioned to compare Toyota’s smallest car against some compelling new rivals. One is the Ford Fiesta, which actually debuted as a 2011 model. Fiesta is impressive but can get a little pricey, easily costing $2,000-$3,000 more than a roughly comparable toyota  Yaris. The real rival for your attention is certain to be the all-new 2012 Hyundai Accent.

Styling: The 2011 toyota  Yaris stying – what there is of it -- carries over from 2010, though Yellow Jolt, Carmine Red Metallic, and Zephyr Blue are among a quartet of discontinued colors while new shades of while and silver are added. Bottom line: there’s still no chance in hell this tiny Toyota will qualify as teen-bedroom-poster material. In fairness, the four-door hatchback does have a certain urban-fashion air. It’s the most appealing of the three toyota Yaris body styles, the others being a hunched-up two-door hatchback and an almost normal-looking four-door sedan. (No other car in the subcompact class has more than two body styles.) As a practical matter, the 2011 toyota Yaris sedan has a smidge more rear-seat leg room than the hatchbacks because it’s slightly longer. But the hatchbacks – which Toyota calls “Liftbacks” -- furnish micro-wagon cargo versatility, an important consideration in an automobile barely 12 feet long. All three body styles have tall rooflines for comfortable, upright seating and coif-clearing head room. You’ll feel positively liberated by toyota Yaris’s tight-turning-circle maneuverability and the parking-space freedom of its small size. You may be confounded by a dashboard that mounts its instruments in an ergonomically awkward central pod rather than in the more orthodox location in front of the driver. The 2011 toyota Yaris comes in one basic level of trim, though its exterior appearance can be dressed up with optional alloy wheels or with extra-cost Sport packages that include color-keyed body spoilers, “S” badging, and fog lamps. Inside, the Sport packages add front “sport” bucket seats with unique fabric, plus a leather-trimmed steering wheel and transmission shift knob.
Mechanical: The 2011 toyota Yaris continues with one powertrain that consists of a four-cylinder engine and a choice of a five-speed manual transmission or a four-speed automatic. Its 106 horsepower isn’t much muscle, but Yaris weighs just 2,300 pounds so acceleration is adequate if leisurely. Like every car in this class, Toyota Yaris has front-wheel drive, which packages its powertrain above the front tires. It’s the most efficient use of space and puts additional weight over the wheels that propel the car. That’s good for wet-road traction, but isn’t the sort of balance that translates into sporty handling. Toyota Yaris nonetheless feels secure in turns as long as cornering speeds don’t exceed the modest lateral grip of its skinny 15-inch tires. And ride quality over bumps and ruts is quite compliant for such a featherweight. Road, wind, and engine noise are not very well muffled, so this isn’t an inviting Interstate cruiser. But given its humble pretensions,Toyota Yaris’s only serious dynamic shortcoming is waywardness in the teeth of a high wind on an open highway, where it can demand lots of steering correction to maintain your heading. All Toyota Yaris models are built in Japan and none was included in Toyota’s unintended-acceleration recalls for sticking gas pedals or floormat interference. Nonetheless, all Toyotas are getting an electronic override system that gives priority to the brakes if both the brake and accelerator are being applied. Toyota phased the system into production during 2010 and retrofit selected models going back to model-year 2005. Starting with model-year 2011 vehicles, Toyotas says all its cars, trucks, SUVs, and minivans will have the system, including Toyota Yaris.
Features: Aside from the brake-override, the 2011 Toyota Yaris’s only new feature is a sunvisor extension for the hatchbacks -- a small item but sorely needed because there’s so much glass area. It’s a straightforward change to a steadfastly simple car. Indeed, there’s nothing fancy here – no navigation system, leather upholstery, heated seats, or sunroof, for example. But give Toyota credit for including key safety and convenience items as standard equipment on every 2011 Yaris. These include antilock brakes, traction control, and an antiskid system, technology that, respectively, helps the car stop, go, and negotiate turns. Head-protecting curtain side airbags also are standard, as is air conditioning and a tilt steering wheel. But low initial prices mean you must open your wallet to the options list to acquire such features as a split/folding rear seatback, rear-window defogger, cruise control, and power mirrors, windows, and locks. The 2011 Yaris is in fact among the few cars that doesn’t come with an audio system. An AM/FM radio with CD player and an auxiliary jack is included in the optional Convenience and Power packages and a USB iPod interface is included when the Sport Package is combined with alloy wheels. Bluetooth hands-free cell-phone connectivity is available as a Blu Logic-brand accessor

2011 Toyota yaris prices

Base prices for the 2011 Toyota Yaris increase an average of $250, reflecting a boost of about 2 percent over 2010 Yaris starting prices. Base price range for the 2011 Toyota Yaris is $13,615-$15,175 (Base prices in this review include the manufacturer’s mandated destination fee. Toyota’s fee for the 2011 Yaris is $760 for 2009, but Toyotas sold in some Southeastern and Gulf states are delivered by independent distributors and may carry different destination fees.)
Base price for the 2011 Toyota Yaris two-door hatchback is $13,615 with the five-speed manual transmission and $14,425 with the four-speed automatic. The 2011 Toyota Yaris four-door hatchback starts at $13,915 with manual transmission and at $14,715 with automatic.
Base price for the 2011 Toyota Yaris sedan is $14,375 with manual transmission and $15,175 with automatic.
Among key 2011 Toyota Yaris options, the Convenience Package adds $840-$960 depending on model and transmission and includes the audio system with satellite radio capability and the split/folding rear seatback; on the hatchback, the rear seatback reclines and the rear seat itself slides fore and aft several inches to prioritize e cargo or passenger space.
The Power Package adds $1,525-$1,780 to a 2011 toyota Yaris, depending on body style. It includes all the Convenience Package items, plus remote keyless entry, power mirrors and power door locks and windows with power driver’s-window auto down. Combined with alloy wheels the Power Package adds $1,915-$2,095, depending on body style.
The Sport Package option is priced at $2,665-$2,845, depending on body style, and includes the aforementioned special exterior and interior trim. Combined with alloy wheels the Sport Package costs $3,055-$3,235, depending on body style, and includes the USB iPod cable interface

Toyota yaris fuel economy

Fuel-economy ratings for the 2011 Toyota Yaris are unchanged at 29/36 mpg city/highway with manual transmission and 29/35 mpg with the automatic.

The 2011 Toyota Yaris went on sale in July 2010. By the way, for such a tiny car with such a short name, Toyota tapped an improbably broad range of inspiration to badge the thing. The carmaker says the word Yaris “stems from the Greek goddess Charis, the symbol of beauty and elegance, the city of Paris, a cultural epicenter, and the German expression of affirmation and agreement, pronounced ya.”What's next for the Toyota Yaris

The toyota Yaris launched in two-door-hatchback and four-door-sedan form in model-year 2007 as a replacement for the even more elemental Toyota Echo. toyota Yaris added the four-door hatchback body style for model-year 2009, expanded safety features for 2010, and added the brake-override for 2011. A subtle styling facelift is possible for model-year 2012, but it’s just as likely Toyota will leave toyota Yaris largely untouched until its next all-new design launches for model-year 2014.
What Toyota  Yaris will face before then is an onslaught of tough new competition. It begins with the feisty 2011 Ford Fiesta, continues with the all-new 2012 Hyundai Accent,, and accelerates with the redesigned 2013 Nissan Versa. It doesn’t get any easier come model-year 2014, when Yaris will contend with the all-new 2014 Honda Fit.
Near-term, Toyota could bite the profit bullet and bolster Yaris’s appeal by integrating such popular options as the audio system, power windows, and power mirrors into the standard equipment list -- without raising prices. Or, it could maintain current equipment levels, and cut base prices. Either is a demanding proposition, but this is the sort of action that’ll be necessary to blunt the impact of newer, fresher-looking, and more generously equipped subcompact rivals.

2011 Ford Fiesta: To America from Ford’s European small-car experts comes a fresh-faced four-door hatchback and sedan with a surplus of cheeky character. Fiesta has less rear-seat leg room than Yaris, but cargo volume is a draw. The big difference is the way the Ford holds the road like a larger, heavier car – and a sporty one at that. It’s one subcompact you could take cross-country. It’ll also keep you connected and entertained with a plethora of available Bluetooth, USB, and turn-by-turn navigation tech. The 120-horsepower four-cylinder is spry enough and delivers an impressive 29/38 mpg with conventional manual transmission, 30/40 with the dual-clutch manual that plays the role of an automatic. Stripper versions start around $14,000, but ladle on the goodies, and a $21,000 Fiesta is a sobering reality.
2011 Honda Fit: It’s not fast in the traditional sense, but no low-cost subcompact has more agile road manners than this 117-horsepower cold-capsule-shaped five-seat wagon. Room for people and cargo is astonishing given Fit’s small footprint. A factory navigation system is among the options, and fuel economy is easy on the wallet at 27/33 mpg with manual transmission, 28/35 with automatic. A stiff ride and intrusive levels of road noise temper matters, but if you appreciate intelligent packaging and entertaining handling, Fit belongs atop your subcompact shopping list. Base price range is roughly $15,700-$20,000. Fit’s next redesign is set for model-year 2014.
2011 Nissan Versa: The 2011 Hyundai Accent’s value proposition can’t be denied, but it’s ugly and unpleasant to drive and the all-new 2012 model is certainly worth waiting for. Into the breach steps the Nissan Versa. It mimics a compact-class car’s interior room and road manners at subcompact-class prices. Versa comes as a four-door sedan or a vastly hipper four-door hatchback. It offer four-cylinder engines of 107 horsepower (26/34 mpg with manual transmission, 26/33 with automatic) and 122 horsepower (26/31 with manual, 24/32 with automatic, and 28/34 with a continuously variable automatic transmission). A bare-bones sedan starts under $11,000, but you’ll want one reasonably equipped and so be looking at a base-price range of roughly $13,000-$18,000. Versa’s next redesign is model-year 2013.this is the new generation of toyota yaris.