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The Toyota Yaris Hybrid is economical, spacious and easy to live with, but also pricey, unexciting to drive and occasionally noisy
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What is the point of comparing the driving dynamics of a sporty fiesta with that of a vehicle that aims to be efficient? You failed to explain anything that makes this car great (the eCVT gearbox, ev driving only capabilites, range, actual city mileage) etc
@Commendatore I think you can drive it for 2km (or 1.24 miles) in the EV mode
@@damianvila That's correct, 1½ to 2 km and then the battery is flat. It takes about 30 km on motorway at 110 km to recharge it, and during that period the mileage is 12-13 km/l, 33-36 miles/gallon. The average mileage is 17,5 km/l or 49 miles/gallon. Nice but nothing to brag about. EV driving is very expensive and not the least economic.
@@Nordjyden9000 You a right, if you use it not as it intended ( drive in the city between traffic lights in speed limits) is not economic. If you drive in the city and you don't need to be a speed king, full throttle then full brake on next red light, then it is economic and reliable. On high way long trips and over 90km/hour there a plenty better cars available. If you use it for shopping, then bring children to school, then drive to work, then back for kids to school then back home, then it is nice little car with low consumption.
@@vitorvieira7617 Ours should replace our ageing Yaris 1.4 Diesel with automatic change. It had 400.000 km's on its back, and was damaged and became a total loss in a traffic accident, but with no mechanical problems at all. Our driving is 90% motorway, and we have a 2014 Aygo I use for commuting. We have used the same dealer for more than 25 years and our cars were and are regularly maintained - we keep them for many years, and the dealer know us and our driving. The Yaris drove around 40.000 km yearly. They praised and strongly recommended the Hybrid with the multi gearbox, as it had a very good mileage for our kind of driving.
I didn't take long before we discovered otherwise. We live in a small village close to the motorway (3 km's away) and a bigger city 15 km away. We have 2 km of village roads. So the daily routine is 2 km on village roads 40 km/h, 3 km on open road 80 km/h and 70 km motorway, then 1 km in the city 50 km/h. The car switched to electric drive coming home after the daily 75 km's entering the village, and switched on the petrol engine close to home or when reversing into our garage. In the morning, or if we should use it later, it switched on the petrol engine immediately to charge the flat batteries. The first kilometer is slightly downhill and the mileage was 5 km/l. It improved gradually to 16 km/l, and after 25 km cruising at 110, down 20 km/h from the old diesel, mileage was sometimes a remarkable 19 km /l with the autopilot on. The car is in complete control of the engine and gearbox. Our 10-year-old diesel regularly topped 21 km/l under the same circumstances, and averaged close to 20 on a yearly basis, but with higher cruising-speed. My 30-year-old Yamaha XJ900 sidecar outfit does it better. Very conservative driving, no burn-outs or agressive stuff, we are past that age, and with my background, anything on four wheels is boring, we use our cars to get from A to B.
Entering the motorway the engine sounded like leaving the car, and the gearbox keeps revs above 5000. Whenever you touched the accelerator, the gearbox changed what felt like 2 gears down, with the engine revving at a guessed 5000 revs.
It took us 4 months to get rid of it, the dealer didn't want it back in exchange for another Toyota - they just got rid of it. And we were offered half price for a car with 5000 km on the clock, even the thought of placing it in the worst part of Hamburg in the hope that somebody would steal it, crossed my mind. In the end we got a decent price, but it was an expensive experience we don't repeat. Maybe it works in a city, but for anything outside,. that type of hybrid is dead-end. Anyways, you cant say electric cars, without saying yes to nuclear power.
Our car park now is a 2019 Renault Megane Diesel DGS and a 2016 Toyota Aygo petrol manual shift. 2016 is not a coincidence: The only electronics are the engine control and B/T. It doesn't treat me like a 5-years old child. The Renault has averaged 19 km/l during the 1½ years now, and the Aygo averages 23. Both are EURO6 and the lower consumption alone, makes them much more environmental friendly than the Hybrid Yaris which is awarded with much lower taxes. Furthermore maintenace is much cheaper due to simpler construction and everything can be easily reused in 2050 when they are worn out.
I have a 2016 Toyota Yaris Icon Hybrid 1.5, and it's a great little all round car, both for the open road, and city/town driving. I would never change to anything else. I do a lot of driving, and £35 of petrol fills the tank and that lasts me around a week and a half usually. My friends are telling me that it costs £50 and £70 to fill their fuel tanks, and they're just astounded that the hybrid is only £35. I just love my car 😃💕
The hybrid has two engines, one electric and one fuel powered, and uses the electric motor to drive around town at low speeds, and when more power is needed then the fuel motor kicks in, hence the car recharges the battery while on the move by using it's normal fuel powered engine. So there's no need to find a charging point to plug it in 😀
i've just ordered a petrol 1.5 icon tech. I've read the info system and sat nav is quite laggy. Is this true?
@@sufyanpatel9706 Yes, it's the only thing about the car I absolutely hate. You won't get any better for the price though, it's just something cheap cars have
@@essayedgar yeah it's fine though, what about the lane departure thing, does that steer for you?
@Kristian BalaIt has eCVT transmission. Can be thought of as an electric motor and an Atkinson cycle (more efficient than normal engines) petrol engine inputting power to a sort of special differential gearbox so either or both can drive the car forward. This is not an electric car but uses electric technology to save the energy usually lost by using friction brakes. This saved energy is then used to drive the car forward for a short while.
Yeah the difference to these “rivals” are that in 20 years time this Toyota Yaris will still be going strong and these other models will be long in the scrappy.
True that. My 2006 Yaris 1.0 VVTI still going stzrong after 150,000 miles. And thats a 3 cylinder! Nothign done, only opil + filters and 10 years ago alternator. It has a timing chain, 0 rust, and the cheap plastic it always had are still like new, and no squeal.
My "new" 2015 Yaris 1.33 has 37,000 miles, and acts like new. Shame the scratches I made all over interior and exterior too. Well, nothing can be done, its a daily driver and used for EVERYTHING. The 1.0 struggled on motorway any uphill, even the smallest, with just me and GF. The 1.33 carried 4 people and full trunk uphill 130Kmh with 0 issues.
I tried the 1.5 VVTI non-hybrid. From what I could feel, it had more oompfh, acelerated a bit quicker, but thats all. 170kmh, avg 6L/100km, nothing special. From what Ive heard, the 1.5 hybrid feels a little slower comapred to 1.5 VVT-iE. The older are eCVT? If not, the new ones ARE CVT. I dont know about their reliability. But the 1.0 54kW and 1.33 73kW/99PS (except its 1st 2009 version), are top reliable engines.
Fun to drive like Fiesta, not. Quality materials like VW Polo, not. But better optics, funner interior, more reliable, and even kinda nice to drive A-B and also highway. And I think none of them, nor other rivals in class, have any kind of acoustic treatment for motorway anyway.
Unloveable? So you do like cars more that breakdown easily but look cool?
I really like the Toyota Yaris Hybrid and this review seems quite biased against it.
I totally agree with you!!
Time to review the review. I give it 3 out of 10. It fails on some main points about the Yaris. Like the gearbox and the reliability. Long term service costs, the different modes.
I'll stick to Carwow for my reviews.
did she discuss ev? Worst review ever
How can you call this car unlovable ? Lol...Toyota is an amazing brand especially for automatic cars and the Yaris is a really great choice, I love mine! Very harsh comment to make...
It's true that is not the most exciting car you can buy for just over £17k but with all this pollution regulations is the one that make more sense and quite frankly I believe is quite good for the money, the interior for a small class car is ok after all it is not e executive car, entertainment you can leave with it, and behind the steering wheel you should be concentrating on your driving and what is happening around you on the road compare to pure small engine petrol
Bad review. Do not come here to hear about Ford or VW cars. Brands I distrust and dislike. Also what's the point of comparing a hybrid car with standard car?
This year, Toyta Yaris were introduced into their system (Y20 model at least) the new media center console which features android auto and apple car play, my car already has it.
The worst things that i hate are:
- The back seats are very uncomfortable and you don't have too much spacing because the batteries are inside the bottom seats.
- if you look to the engine bay, there is not too much metal going on there, also if you look bellow the car you will see not too much metal as well.
- The top of the steering wheel is thinner comparing to the rest, and when you grab it to make a full turn, grabbing it doesn't feel right.
- USB cover is very low quality.
- Storage is very limited.
- After some time, if you open the driver's door just to take out something with you, you'll hear the system pre-starting (probably the fuel pump feeding fuel to the motor, making the car ready to be turned on)
- There is no storage on the back of the front seats.
- When you full speed, you'll hear the engine giving it all, and it makes a lot of noise inside.
- "EV mode" disables by itself when the car needs more power, and even if you lower the speed, you'll have to press the buttonagain, not quite sure why you have a button to "force" EV mode if you can just run on ev mode if you keep controlling the speed by yourself.
- Breaking is very aggressive, but that's not quite a problem.
- "Auto high beams" not always work properly, and when it's activated you can't force them to turn on.
But apart of that:
- The suspension is awesome.
- the front side is very comfortable
- The bag has great space
- You have a service wheel instead of a repair kit
- It is visually appealing
- traffic signs reading works great
and so on
toooo be honest no one buy these cars because the way they drive, look, feel, comfort etc. only for reliability and economy.!!!
haider hameed spot on
Well I think that mine is very comfortable
Claire McNabb it is comfy and quite smooth
I bought a dark red Bi-Tone trim and it's quite a looker in my opinion! It also drives really smoothly, comfortably and very quietly. The economy though is what made me love the damn thing. It uses as much fuel as my scooter in and around town. It's quite an underrated car.
@@theodorev666 what's the mpg like cause I have mokka and the petrol is killing me lol
No. Yaris is NOT the only hybrid. Honda Jazz hybrid has been available in U.K. for 10 years - just as well built and reliable - if not more so. Both are fantastic cars.
yes, it is just not at the level of Marathon HSD. Newer honda hybrid system with real e-CVT serial hybrid is much better.
the yaris has a 4 cylinder 16 valve DOHC engine, alot of its competitors have 3 cylinder 12 valve engines which in my opinion would never live as long as the toyota 4 pot. Also the yaris has disc brakes all round, Alot of its competitors have drum brakes on the rear. The yaris is definitely the thinking man's car!
Didn't you pull out the steering wheel for a better reach? I'm 6ft and the ride and handling aren't too bad for an everyday city car, especially when it's a hybrid.
Next week: “why isn’t the Prius as fun to drive as a bmw 330i”
I litterly bought this car a couple days ago, very excited !
I hope you're enjoying it. I bought a dark red Bi-Tone trim and it's quite a looker in my opinion! It also drives really smoothly, comfortably and very quietly. The economy though is what made me love the damn thing. It uses as much fuel as my scooter in and around town. It's quite an underrated car. Happy and safe travels!
Can you tell more about your experience now with the car?
@@Elaba_ I have Yaris hybrid nearly 2 years. I bought it new, waiting time more then 3 month from order and was a bit expensive. In summer it takes 4l/100km, in winter up to 5l/100km. Especially in city between traffic lights is very efficient and is able to move on battery. I you a "sport" driver like a blonde lady, its not for you. On long high speed trips it is no advantage to non hybrid cars. I haven't any issue, it just drives. As a fuel price goes up price gap begin come back.
These cars are particularly frugal considering that they're automatic, this point is often overlooked.
One thing I can't stand is the very 70s gear shifter that looks similar to a T bar shifter out of an old Ford Escort or something.
I don't know why they didn't give the Yaris the same `fly by wire' shifter as the Prius & Auris get, to save money I suppose?
Yaris is supposed to have the same drivetrain as those sister cars so why make the impression that it is inferior?
Looks good little car. Thumbs up.
I love this Toyota Yaris hybrid. It's very fun to drive.
The review is poor. Because it didn't cover (intentionally ?) ... the EV part. Which is the best part ... in a Toyota hybrid. What is the range in pure EV ? Time of charging ? etc
Laurentiu Trifan the EV range would only be a few miles and it’s not a PHEV. Batteries charge from the engine only.
@@SelfMadeDocumentary I understood that ... but ... still ... a bigger attention to the electric/hybrid part of the car's functioning ... would have been desirable.
You can’t charge it. Sadly it’s not a Plug in hybrid.
@@markgaudie80 Sadly, indeed
What part did she miss are you talking about? She talked about hoe the ev part does not kick in as much as its prius counterpart and the mpg is not as good.
Every time I open a British video about the yaris it's the same Fiesta and Polo over and over again... If I wanted performance I wouldn't buy a supermini for less than 20k, I'd get something used with more hp. I want a reliable car that I barely have to maintain and not go to the gas station twice a week. Is this the car for me? I don't know, because all I heard was how the Fiesta and the Polo are better...
£0 down payment on motorbility makes this car very popular in that segment. If you want a ZOE Electric the down payment is over £4500. No savings in running costs there. But it is a zero emissions car as a plus. We had a look at the Smart ForFour Electric. Comes with great specs and zero emissions as you would expect being all electric. But again the down payment on this car now is over £1500 on motorbility. So there for the Yaris is the best car to go for in terms of cost ver 3 years on motorbility scheme.
Zero emission?? 95% of the time it is powered by petrol, and apart from the very small amount of power saved from braking, it is also petrol driven when it switches to EV for max. 1 mile. If you want a car with limited emission, go for at EURO6 car, preferably a diesel as it uses the fuel more effectively, as demonstrated i the real world by the good MPG diesels have compared to similar petrol or hybrids.
Best small, economic, ecologic and reliable car in the world which will make 200.000 miles with a smile on your face. Would love to see 3cylinder Fiesta ecoboost to do 200.000 miles without many problems. I wouldnt buy Fiesta or VW if you "point gun on my head". New one is even better. 4:05 More efficient petrol or diesel alternative. There is none alternative (Ev is not alternative yet for everyone) , petrol cant match fuel efficiency of Yaris nor Diesel can in city driving (60 mpg). And diesel is not for city, it kills people and city kill him. I dont know how you can even recomend that for city omg
Many cars do more than 200.000 miles. We had a Yaris Diesel 1.4 MMT 2010. It did 190.000 miles with regular maintenance and a set of discs and two sets of pads, before it was destroyed by being hit from behind. We had a 1.8 Avensis doing 450.000 miles with nothing else than maintenance, 2 set of discs, 4 sets of pads and a clutch. It was scrapped for the same reason, rear-ending. When it went for scrap it still had the original exhaust system and no rust. Our no. 2 car, a Suzuki Swift, just passed 200.00 miles - 12 years old. My 30-year old motorcycle a Yamaha XJ900 has 125.000 miles on the clock and I haven't done anything else than changing the oil and filters, and checking valve clearances once a year. The core point is: "Keep it simple", the more stuff you put in, the more must me maintained and in the end replaced.
For city use we need an entirely different type of car, and it should be small and electric. Not the Smart, where they forgot what they were making underway.
Important missed detail
Can this car run on battery drive alone (like the Prius)? And if so how far will it go on just battery power?
Just over a mile just on battery
@@Stevejh56 Just over a mile under good conditions, and after that it takes 30 km (20 miles) on the motorway at 110 km/h (70 miles/hour) to recharge it. During that period the mileage is 34 MPG. Driving electris is very expensive. We have had one for 4 months and 13.000 km (8000 miles) now, and it is a major disappointment, it's up for sale again. It will be replaced by a modern clean diesel with a mileage of 60 mpg which our previous car did under exactly the same circumstances.
She does what most common people expected from any Hybrid. Drowning noise from high rev CVT that in fact is the most efficient way transfering engine power. However, it causes wrong feeling of being slower from the actual speed. But this reviewer mislead buyer to Money pits like fragile Renault Zoe or any Diesel. If you want appliances from super cheap car but reliable and trouble free for the first 10 years, nothing beat Toyota offer.
It doesn't drive like a hot hatch? Shocking! Who'd have expected that?
Yet again an electric car reviewer bagging a hybrid for not having the performance of an EV or a hot hatch. The revving under acceleration is a feature of all CVTs (belt driven or electric), hidden by some manufacturers by putting artificial gear changes into the programming to fool drivers into thinking they are driving a torque converter automatic.
Where Toyota falls down is in not offering more of its hybrid range with a plug-in capability, and more especially with its awful infotainment offering. No Apple CarPlay or Android Auto in 2019? Pathetic.
Ian W I just ordered one with CarPlay. They start producing them beginning this may. Looking forward it :)
Is there a sensor that alerts once the oil goes below the minimum level?
What car doest have this😂
Blah blah blah. All she ever compared were against Ford Fiesta, VW polo which admittedly are quicker cars but only when you take them to the highway. But when starting right off the traffic in cities , Yaris hybrid launches quicker than most cars. And reaches to 30 mph just about any car out there which is more than adequate for most daily driving. And it does that with absolute ease. Also most highways in the UK are going to be limited to 60 MPH anyways .
Straight out of the box. There's actually a few hybrid superminis. And gave been for a while.
Thank you for sharing this beautiful video , i learn a lot of property of Electric auto
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My guess is, this Woman was paid off by the "other" car manufacturers to give this little fire fly a bit of a drenching.
I love this car 🚗 💨🚗💨🚗💨🚗💨🚗💨🚗💨🚗💨
The car has a tiny nickle metal hydride battery and so will be of little use in general motoring. Most of the efficiency comes from the atkinson cycle engine.
Ave past my driving test am getting one of them cars but a manual one
Jacks train videos Epic you won’t be getting the hybrid then because the hybrid is automatic only.
If you would recommend a electric Renault over a hybrid Toyota your in the wrong job! Also My 2016 gen3 Yaris has apply car play?
Like you said it’s an efficient car so don’t go compare it with performance car
Such a snooty biased review not once did the mention 5 year warranty and the legendary Toyota reliability. A Renault over this? She’s not in the real world
if you want an efficient, cost effective car, just buy a second hand yaris with the 1.0 engine. It's better for the environment if you do.
Exactly what I did, 1 year old, 10 000 km, lots of options, only it is the 1.5 engine. Still very happy with my buy, should get it in 2 weeks.
VW bias yet again. Stop comparing a unique small hybrid against a VW Polo for gods sake.
Mam amazing review
We have a Lexus hybrid, a brilliant car, but all reviewers compare it to BMW's and Mercs.
The top reviewers just don't like hybrids for some reason. We are looking at getting rid of
our Ford Bmax this year, and fancy a Yaris. I did look at Fiestas, but they don't do a hybrid
automatic (or cvt). VW's are just too unreliable.
I have one of those. Had it for four months and 13.000 km now and I don't like it, it's an awful var and it has chased me away from Toyota and I had 5 during 25 years. It is used for long-distance commuting, 6 km village/country roads and 85 km on low-traffic motorways each way, 5 days a week. 85 km on the cruise control at a steady 110 km/h. It works out at an average 17,4 km/l since new, which is nothing to write home about these days. Our 10 year old diesel did it better at an average of 22 km/l and at a higher cruising speed. The problem is that the few km it will drive on the battery are very expensive to recharge, and my calcs says that when it moves by electricity alone, it is comparable to 6 km /l. If you want economy buy diesel, and a modern diesel are EURO6 just as a petrol engine. I won't write about the horrible CVT gearbox and the awful over-reving at the slightest hill or acceleration. Ours is for sale again, big disappointment.
If you want a car that will
Last get this don’t listen to this silly woman
Renault over a Toyota?
Wouldn't take a Renault if they gave one for free!
Crap review, you can tell the reviewer just doesn’t like the car.
this was not a review,
She's not a keeper, the cars not too bad though
VW interior looks borijng af, fiesta looks like a futuristic calculator on a female Gundam´s chest. at least the old ones. Dont know the 2021 and up models. But even so, Yaris 3rd gen, even since its 1st debute in 2012/2013, has had much nicer interior design. And the fiesta fun drive and polo better interior materials, dont mean they are better cars. All of them are better in something. A fabia 3 has biggest boot, but also dumbest backseat size. If the preice was the same, Yaris is a no brainer with its reliability, good 1.33 and 1.5/hybrid engines.
Good honest review.
Not all electric /hybrid are good as not all petrol or diesel cars are good.
very poor and biased review
ewwww EV
Real range on a Renault Zoey is 126 miles in winter and 180miles in summer, range on a yaris is 574 miles.
😂😂😂😂😂
Again a pointless "review".
And this guy is tiresome.
Only electric vehicles no hybrids please.
USA
That'll keep the pollution out of the cities but don't you use a lot of coal fired power stations still over in the US?
Well, I have to say that it is difficult to compress more bias and BS in a five minute video. Just because you don't like the eCVT gearbox doesn't mean it's a bad system, because it actually is reliable and comfortable. The brakes in this little car are well sized, powerful and heat resistant. Never a problem in prolonged downhills. Performance? The one to expect in a 100 HP car. The power IS there, you just have to ask for it. If you didn't find it, that means you didn't understand how this little car works. Same guess for your noise complaints. It is possible to drive it quick enough with very little noise, provided you get the feel of the car, which you obviously didn't.
I have owned it for two years and couldn't be happier for daily use, a job that it does flawlessly and asking for very little in return.
I love this car 🚗 💨🚗💨🚗💨🚗💨🚗💨🚗💨🚗💨
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