Ability To Adapt To Changing Customer Needs
Yaris has demonstrated its ability to adapt to changing customer needs with the "family" growing to include the widely acclaimed GR Yaris performance sports car and the high-riding Yaris Cross urban SUV in 2020.
In Australia, cumulative sales of the Yaris family have totalled 361,982 cars, including 81,983 examples of the first-generation Yaris sold here as the Echo from 1999-2006.
Totals also include the Yaris Cross SUV (19,184 in Australia), GR Yaris sports car (2,393 in Australia) and Vitz (the model's name in Japan).
Yaris is a genuinely global model, manufactured at sites around the world. Initial production started in January 1989 at the Takaoka plant in Japan; today it has production bases in Japan, Brazil, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Thailand, France and the Czech Republic.