Anytime guys, always an absolute pleasure!

Good video guys , 2 possible contenders for top gear . 👌

@@skippysmith7526 Thank you, we can only dream ;-)

Didn’t you know that the height of the mirror is adjustable? You can see in a shot that it’s position wasn’t changed. You can move it up so it almost touches the roof and then, it‘s not that much an issue.

Haha so true!

It makes me want a GRY so bad, but I'm a student 😭

Would love to see both of you do this again. great way to do a comparison video.

@@mfshill I would love to do more with Imran and co, Matt has done a brilliant edit once again!

Let’s get the GP3 back to Llandow next year and bring the Yaris with us 🤔

You can see your heads bouncing in the mini ,so hard work over a distance. Yaris all day long .

Brilliant to see too 👍

I’ve been looking for a gp2 I think I would prefer it over our gp3.

GP2 forever!👍 The looks, the delightful manual gearbox, the joy of driving it on the limits... I think without a manual option, GP3 loses 70% of the fun. Yaris seems to be a joyful machine! Cheers from Ankara, Turkey and happy holidays!

@@asmg5014 the gp3 would be a handful as a manual. Even as a auto dtc you have to drive it, took my wife a couple thousand miles to get use to it.

As a GP1 & GP2 owner I had money down on the GP3. Passed on the GP3 for the Yaris GR.

I'd like to see that mini chasing the yaris on the nurburgring

Corona would look like this if it was a car

@@MajorAMinor is that an insult or a complement ?

@@benkirkham2017 depends on if you love or hate Corona

And the only reason why you'd clean it is so you can get it dirty again.

Haha so true, good hatch's always remind me of my younger years, such fun cars at sensible speeds on the road!

New 308 gti by peugeot sport got great feeling behind steering wheel. So fun car to drive! Peugeot is back in the game with 308 gti. Amazing machine.

Thats exactly what the GR evokes for me. Memories of the 90s. As Joe said its great to be back in cars that can be fun at less than licence losing speeds

good job your 2 cents means fanculo tutto .

@Jamie Cole the GR Yaris 'as stated by Top Gear, Out Accelerates a Ferrari 488 PISTA, McLaren 570s, Audi TTRS, Honda NSX, and Lamborghini to 60km/h PROVEN, also handles exceptionally well.there is a reason TOP GEAR have awarded it 10/10.

@Jamie Cole GR would beat the Mini 1/4 mile. Virtually nothing beats the GR 0-30. The Mini needed AWD and a manual box, they made a mistake there! The GR is the best all rounder, and much more than just a suped up mainstream car

@Evolve Automotive thanks for the like. This is the first time I’ve watched your channel, won’t be the last. Great content!! Keep up the work

for the steering input/correction it's true on this wet road but the GP3 torque is very imppresive

Thanks for taking the time out to comment. Highly appreciated 🙏

As said in the video the GP3 is definitely more fun at the lower speeds, but possibly for the wrong reasons. We weren’t really trying but the GR would have been hugely quicker if not obeying the speed limit.

@@EvolveAutomotive The Gr yaris I had was an easier car to drive fast tbf ,in fact I thought anyone could drive it fast even min gran, on the other hand with the GP3 you have to be far more a competent driver to drive it fast on road , it takes some tackling but if you can do that its far more exciting in my opinion , hence why I still go t it here .

It has the fun factor of which you speak

And the iconic design and nature of a mini, and the community of a mini. Its raw, its a track machine, if you're not focused on the track, what are you doing there? Besides the GP3 now has mods that fix the torque steer.

Bizarrely, it’s actually closer to the savagery and ‘all the torque all the time’-ness of an R52 Cooper S with an undersized supercharger pulley fitted, except with that 4wd grip to actually send it out of corners. You definitely won’t be disappointed, they’re the perfect blend of brutality and composure.

@@EvolveAutomotive nah it doesn't , doesn't have the go cart handling of the mini .

Essayez la Yaris gr vous changerez d’avis 👌

Yeah we think so too

So true buddy, quite funny watching it back for me :-)

@@JoeAchilles1 the sensible one and the crazy wild one 😜

This was definitely the GR’s hunting grounds, hopefully we can get them both to a track and see how the GP3 fares in its natural habitat.

@@EvolveAutomotive look forward to that video👍. My GP3 is getting its first track outing tomorrow, hope its dry!😲

You won’t be disappointed! Loved ours at Llandow.

For me the Yaris will also be the winner on a dry track - look forward to that vid in the summer

@@relentlesspursuit6894gr yaris or i20n?

Yesss finally someone said ut

Everyone seems to like this format

We no longer own our Cooper S we had. But we do miss it.

Indeed

Not sure we were thinking about how to do it without using the cars Bluetooth and this is what we thought of.

Thanks and it does 🙏

Thanks Joseph 😊

Pretty much. They should have come with adjustable suspension.

And a manual transmission option...

@@Eddie07S not as much needed as the other stuff

Definitely adds to the Fun Factor, though and has been the biggest complaint about the GP in the MINI forum I follow. You say the engine could do with cooling. I know my Gen III JCW has added cooling over the S model, which works well out on the track. I thought I read that the GP has even more cooling than what the JCW has. Not enough?

@@Eddie07S the gearbox is not my number one concern, also because I know BMW wouldn't have been able to make the business case work because of homologation. Nowhere in the BMW or MINI lineup this engine configuration is connected to a manual, and only doing for 3000 pieces would make the car too expensive. They could however have fit better engine cooling. The car doesn't have the lower engine cover underneath the car because of the cooling issues. Together with my tuner we dived into the engine characteristics and the thermal set up of the car is horrific. It needs a different intercooler desperately to at least be able to keep the performance levels at all circumstances, and then we are not even talking about tuning it. Without it, it won't be able to hold on to the increased 306 hp at every single instance. It was a bit like a W T F moment when we saw the results of the tests we did. The engine and especially the turbo are strangled up to a point that you are like this can't be true. Also this 2.0 liter engine runs stock a turbo pressure that gets you 306 hp, while if you would run the same pressure on similar 2.0 liter 4 cylinder VAG engine you would have in access of 450 hp.

Thanks Phil. Not quite Top Gear but will take the compliment

Two different ways to approach the Hot Hatch for sure, but would definitely say they are in the same class when it comes to buying a car.

Bang in the same class - and the GR is the better car....

Proper rally engineering put into the GR Yaris. The real driver's car for sure. Well done Toyota for showing us that you can still do awesome fun cars.

Salaam, did u manage to get the Yaris?

To be honest it doesn't feel like its lacking torque. It has a fairly decent mid range punch and also holds power at the top end pretty well. Check out our dyno video for the power graph

Glad you liked it :-)

Let's find out soon

in France the GP3 is ahead on the Mortefontaine track .

thats exactly the point these cars were built for HARDCORE

The GR definitely has that spirit 🙌

@@EvolveAutomotive I'm excited to see what kind of performance you guys get out of that little GR. Great content per usual, I just wish you guys had a shop in Southern California for my M4C. In fact quite a few of the other F8* M owners I know follow your channel.

That's a real shame as it is a really good drivers car

We returned it back to standard to make it a fair test. It will be immediately going back on 😅

Epic is the correct word

The GP3 on the Bilstein Clubsports and setup is MUCH better, but that wouldn’t have been a fair comparison when the Yaris is already cheaper!

@@EvolveAutomotive That's true. Get to work on some mods for the gr mine should arrive in May so i need some cool ideas. Mud flaps a first. So i will be contacting you for those and more. Great vid.👍

Haha 😄

Thanks 😊