2017 Toyota Yaris SX Auto Review | Fresh-Faced And Even Safer – If You’re Prepared to Pay
The 2017 Toyota Yaris has been given a third chance at sales success in Australia, getting yet another makeover to keep it looking fresh.
Despite its older underpinnings, age isn’t the problem. Australia’s top-selling light car is the Hyundai Accent and it’s even older. Value is always a big issue in compact cars, and surprisingly Toyota hasn’t made a major move to trim prices or add extra equipment with this update.
instead, Australia’s favourite automotive brand has modernised safety adding the availability of must-have technology like autonomous emergency braking and lane departure warning, although you’ll need to pay a little more to get it added to a base- or mid-spec Yaris.
Vehicle Style: Small hatch
Price: $18,860 plus on-road costs
Engine/trans: 80kW/141Nm 1.5-litre 4cyl petrol | 4sp automatic
Fuel Economy Claimed: 6.4 l/100km | Tested: 7.3 l/100km
OVERVIEW
For 2017 the updated Toyota Yaris hatch sticks to a three-variant range comprising of the entry-level Ascent, mid-spec SX tested here, and range-topping ZR. The three-door Yaris is a thing of the past, so too the Yaris sedan, leaving a five-door hatch as the only body type available.
In its most basic form, pricing starts from $15,290 before on-road costs. Moving up to the SX and the price rises to $17,330 and if you’d like an auto as well (like this car) that’ll be $18,860, then $450 for metallic paint, and $650 for the extra Toyota Safety Sense package bringing the total up to $19,960 before on-road charges are added.