Toyota surprised visitors at the 2025 Tokyo Auto Salon on Friday with a GR Yaris prototype featuring a new 2.0-liter turbo-4 engine in a mid-engined layout. Toyota stated that the prototype is part of a collection of test vehicles engineers are using to develop what the automaker describes as “ ever-better motorsports-bred cars .”

Toyota's foray into the world of mid-engine hot hatchbacks stems from motorsports, as the racing wing of the Japanese brand is set to enter the concept model in the Super Taikyu series. Born in 1991,

This GR Yaris will compete in Japan’s S-Taikyu racing series. The company plans to torture test the vehicle to see what breaks.

Toyota is a Japanese automaker founded in 1937 that has developed a reputation for reliability across a multitude of segments, from sports cars and family sedans to pickup

Toyota fans have been energized by the possibility of a new mid-engine sports car. Just exactly what form that performance model will take is still very much up in the air (as is the possibility of an electric one,

The concept is fitted with a new turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine that is currently under development