UMW Toyota Motor (UMWT) has announced today introduction of the Toyota Yaris G Limited for the Malaysian market, and this time around there is not only cosmetic revisions – there are upgrades applied to the B-segment hatchback’s chassis and powertrain as well.
Capped at a run of 600 units, the Yaris G Limited starts with the regular Yaris as its base, employing the familiar Dual VVT-i 2NR-FE 1.5 litre naturally aspirated four-cylinder petrol engine. Changes to the engine include a cold air intake (CAI) to aid the intake of oxygen-rich air courtesy of a pod intake filter, in order to achieve better combustion efficiency.
The improved breathing is paired with a throttle controller that improves the vehicle’s pedal input to output ratio to achieve better engine response. This is also claimed to “improve horsepower and enhance acceleration”, though UMWT does not state any claimed engine output or performance gains with these changes.
As standard, the Yaris outputs 107 PS at 6,000 rpm and 140 Nm at 4,200 rpm. Here, the Yaris G Limited continues to use the continuously variable transmission (CVT) with seven virtual ratios as before.
Chassis revisions featuring on the Yaris G Limited are comprised of new dampers which are stiffer in order to reduce body roll, improve grip and gain steering precision, in order for the driver to ‘switch lanes with confidence’, says UMWT. A chassis brace set is also included for increased body stiffness to improve stability, it adds.
Aesthetics are treated on the Yaris G Limited as well, with an aerokit that brings red highlights to the front bumper extensions, side skirts and rear bumper diffuser.
Elsewhere, equipment for the Yaris G Limited builds upon that of the regular G variant, which is comprised of LED headlamps with follow-me-home function, LED DRLs and foglamps, LED tail lamps, halogen rear foglamps, automatically folding side mirrors, 16-inch alloy wheels, acoustic windscreen, front parking sensors and rear disc brakes.
Inside, the cabin of the Yaris G Limited gets Optitron-equipped instrumentation, a 4.2-inch multi-information display leather-trimmed steering wheel and gear lever, automatic air-conditioning, six-speaker audio system and an electrochromic rear-view mirror.
Safety kit includes Toyota Safety Sense which is comprised of a pre-collision system with AEB, lane departure warning, blind spot monitoring, rear cross-traffic alert as well as a 360-degree camera system.
The Toyota Yaris G Limited can be had in Silver Metallic, Red Mica Metallic and Platinum White Pearl, the latter two also available as a two-tone scheme with a black roof and pillars for a total of five colour combinations.
Finally, pricing. The Toyota Yaris G Limited is sold for RM99,600 on-the-road without insurance, and comes with a five-year, unlimited mileage manufacturer’s warranty, while the performance parts featured in this variant are covered by a one-year, 20,000 km warranty.
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I feel like they went to shopee , bought all the mods for vios/yaris and slap them on and charge extra 10k for it..all those parts are readily available in any good accessory shop..nothing exclusive here..
And the writer did not mention how much the price difference from standard spec without all the ah beng parts. Why lar?!
Lol… Who needs a Yaris Performance?! At this price, even BYD Dolphin Standard beats it hands down in terms of performance Only stupids would buy
Toyota mah! The Yaris isnt good looking and fun to begin with, so slapping on bits and pieces of accessories hardly going to change any opinion other than those of most hardcore toyota bois. Oh, the 10k increase is just daylight robbery
oh baby just give it up already ain’t nobody asked for this…like the red white and blue is doing too much and all that work done on this for what? a developing nations yaris? ooooo umwt curse you for what you have done to toyota here in malaysia
Looking at all the new posts of exciting cars from China, this honestly is disappointing
Literally nobody asked for this.
Have at it, boys…this is gonna be good.
Such rare limited Toyota. Takpayah pikir, beli saja
When are we getting the Yaris Cross hybrid?
wow, a bit impressive considering it is yaris and toyota. need someone to review this “upgrade”.
Nothing special, just some minor upgrades.
Minor?! Hahah!
How I wish it comes with a manual gearbox.
Toyota now reminds me of honda of yesteryear….beng mod to the max. Price higher with some brader accessories mod. Buyer will think with this car, they are driving F1 but in fact move like siput and masuk longkang when they overestimate a bend.
Toyota should stop selling this yesteryear product and move to EV lar.
ahbeng was actually ahead of their times. Ahbeng was the future. Only today the Japanese catch up with ahbeng trend. Respect the ahbeng. Really way ahead in time
What weed is toyota smoking selling this at 100k? This doesn’t even have ADAS 2.0 as standard.
Also do note ya the performance parts 1 year warranty only. You are risking a lot for this “upgrades”
will be DOA once the city hatchback facelift comes to our shore.
Should lower the price for stock clearance
Retire this ancient piece of crap already! What an insult to the malaysian market for this to still be offered for sale!
Max Racing Exhaust Instake – MYR 1000.00
Ultra racing bar set – est. MYR 2000.00
RaceChip Throttle tuning – MYR 1000.00
Absorber – est. MYR 1200
Not sure about the red absorbers are from though. Maybe some Gab drop in replacements.
Can you spend less than 8k to have all those fitted aftermarket to your regular G-sepc Yaris, most probably.
But then those who get the G-limited still gets all the factory warranty if something bad happens.
Pay an extra MYR 3000-4000 for warranty or extra mods? Quite a legit argument.
That’s funny. They’re just selling you aftermarket parts, labeled as Toyota, and make a profit. Any performance upgrade should have proof on paper. The flyer didn’t mention performance (hp) increase, just acceleration. Even that, there should be proof 0-100 times. Mention on the flyer ‘”Improved acceleration & vehicle-overtaking performance” without proof of theory is just marketing gimmick. Sorry UMW. Better luck next time.
Most probably only makes the car ‘feel’ faster off the line from improved low end response. 0‐100kph probably same or even worse than standard if all those accessories are heavier
Honda city hatchback with sensing2 coming soon, umw answer with yaris tambah sport absorber, ur bar, mushroom intake + throttle controller, some red skirting + limited emblem then sell u rm100k.
looks like all new model coming soon
that’s good.
full structed base now dah good like ladder frame strength
lagi throttling response different.
it’s just a different yaris G Limited now, worth for a review.
They missed the opportunity to tuned this Yaris with 10 speed CVT and 17 inch rims like the Vios GR Sport. But I am not too sure about new Yaris coming soon, there’s no news from Thailand unless Malaysia will be doing the first launch which I dont think so.
In this day and age where new Chinese OEMs pop up in Malaysia every couple of weeks introducing much better specced cars in terms of interior quality, exterior appearance, and safety specs, meanwhile UMWT is still hawking this POS old junk. WOW.
What a world? Why upgrading handling be called junk? A good handling contributes a big part of a fun-to-drive car.
Its a scam when they claimed a throttle controller improve horsepower. Then again, they are smart when the use the word ‘improve’ rather than ‘increase’.
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Toyota, please don’t mind those bashers. This special edition Yaris is an interesting job done. First principle of modification – modify handling before modify output. Look forward to experience it.
Got test drive unit at your showroom?
Bestnye. Saving money so I can upgrade my Ativa Twin turbo to this soon.
Can anyone enlightened me how does that mushroom air intake which is placed so near to the engine block can suck up air cooler than the funnel at the bumper grill where it takes in fresh air?
Come on Toyota please stop offering us the dated 2 decades old 1.5L VVTi engine or the upgraded Dual VVTi engine made by Perodua probably only manages Euro 3ish emissions and give us the 1.5L Dynamic Force Engine which is available in the 1st world countries.
People want cheaper car…
And they make it more expensive.