Toyota Yaris bigger for 2011

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Neil Dowling

Contributing Journalist

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Its 2011 Yaris hatchback, revealed overnight in Japan, grows a tad to increase cabin space and loses some of its gawky, adolescent lines.

It's now sharper looking and gets a more serious facial expression thanks to the elongated headlights.

The Yaris - launched in Japan as the Vitz - has sold 3.5 million around the world since 1999 and its third generation promises to boost appeal.

Toyota Australia says the new Yaris is in showrooms "in the second half" of 2011 - nothing more specific - and will use tweaked versions of the existing 1.3 and 1.5 litre powerplants.

New for 2011 are features including Toyota's new window glass that filters out 99 per cent of UV radiation - ideal for Australia.

Japan will get the Yaris/Vitz with the choice of engines from 1-litre to 1.5 litres, manual or CVT automatic gearboxes, front-wheel drive or all-wheel drive and a stop-start system.

But Australia gets a front-drive platform with the choice of two engines and two transmissions. Toyota claims the stop-start system on the 1-litre Yaris can get fuel consumption down to 3.8 litres/100km.

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Neil Dowling

Contributing Journalist

GoAutoMedia Cars have been the corner stone to Neil’s passion, beginning at pre-school age, through school but then pushed sideways while he studied accounting. It was rekindled when he started contributing to magazines including Bushdriver and then when he started a motoring section in Perth’s The Western Mail. He was then appointed as a finance writer for the evening Daily News, supplemented by writing its motoring column. He moved to The Sunday Times as finance editor and after a nine-year term, finally drove back into motoring when in 1998 he was asked to rebrand and restyle the newspaper’s motoring section, expanding it over 12 years from a two-page section to a 36-page lift-out. In 2010 he was selected to join News Ltd’s national motoring group Carsguide and covered national and international events, launches, news conferences and Car of the Year awards until November 2014 when he moved into freelancing, working for GoAuto, The West Australian, Western 4WDriver magazine, Bauer Media and as an online content writer for one of Australia’s biggest car groups. He has involved himself in all aspects including motorsport where he has competed in everything from motocross to motorkhanas and rallies including Targa West and the ARC Forest Rally. He loves all facets of the car industry, from design, manufacture, testing, marketing and even business structures and believes cars are one of the few high-volume consumables to combine a very high degree of engineering enlivened with an even higher degree of emotion from its consumers.
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