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 | Konu: 2011 TOYOTA YARIS CHANGES  Perş. 19 Kas. - 23:47 | |
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- Styling: The 2011 Yaris styling – what there is of
it -- will carry over from 2010. So 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 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 Yaris sedan has a
smidge more rear-seat leg room than the hatchbacks because it’s
slightly longer. But the hatchbacks 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. The 2011 Yaris dashboard
will again mount its instruments in an ergonomically awkward central
pod rather than in the more orthodox location in front of the driver.
But you’ll feel positively liberated by Yaris’s tight-turning-circle
maneuverability and the parking-space freedom of its small size.
- Mechanical: The 2011 Yaris will continue with a
106-horsepower four-cylinder engine and a choice of a five-speed manual
transmission or a four-speed automatic. That’s not much muscle, but
Yaris weighs just 2,300 pounds, so acceleration is adequate if
leisurely. Like every car in this class, 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. Yaris nonetheless
feels secure in turns as long as cornering speeds don’t exceed the
modest lateral grip of its skinny tires. And ride quality over bumps
and ruts is amazingly compliant for such a featherweight. Given its
humble pretensions, 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.
- Features: The 2011 Toyota Yaris isn’t likely to
gain features not already available on the 2010 model. 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 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 move up the Yaris model ladder to get such features as a
split-folding rear seatback, rear-window defogger, CD player, cruise
control, and power mirrors, windows, and locks. Toyota could
conceivably make such items standard on more Yaris models for the 2011,
or at least make them more widely available as options. Supplementing
the currently optional auxiliary connection for a USB iPod interface
would be a fine idea, too.
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