The Toyota Yaris is reportedly being up to date in Japan, with brisker expertise and potential value rises to go along with it.
Japanese web site Inventive Pattern studies hybrid-powered variations of the Yaris – a Mazda 2 and Suzuki Swift rival – have been up to date in Japan with a ten.5-inch centre touchscreen now commonplace, a function that has been supplied in European-market Yarises since 2024.
Each the Yaris and Yaris Cross SUV spinoff presently bought in Australia function an 8.0-inch centre display as commonplace, whereas earlier Japanese fashions used a 7.0-inch show.
Additional modifications for the Yaris Hybrid in Japan – not but seen on the Toyota Japan public web site, and reportedly set to be introduced on February 20 – are stated to incorporate an digital parking brake with an computerized hill-hold operate; present Australian fashions use a conventional handbrake lever, with Hill-start Help Management fitted throughout the vary.
Toyota Australia hasn’t confirmed any modifications for the current-generation Yaris. Nonetheless, the newest native replace arrived in Might 2025, when the hatchback obtained upgraded security expertise.
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This replace adopted the Yaris vary changing into hybrid-only in Australia in 2024, other than the GR Yaris efficiency flagship which gained an non-obligatory aero bundle domestically late final yr.
Nearly all of Toyota’s native automobile and crossover SUV lineup additionally grew to become hybrid-only in 2024together with its top-selling RAV4 SUV.
This left solely a handful of fashions, together with the favored HiLux ute, LandCruiser vary and Gazoo Racing (GR) efficiency vehicles, out there with non-hybrid powertrains.
The present Australian Yaris Hybrid vary begins with the Ascent Sport at $28,990 earlier than on-road prices, rising to $32,390 for the mid-spec SX and $34,590 for the flagship ZR, additionally earlier than on-road prices.
The Japanese upgrades will probably be accompanied by value rises, based on InventivePatternof between ¥200,000 and ¥300,000 ($A1875 to $A2813).
The report additionally claims there aren’t any modifications to the 1.5-litre three-cylinder petrol hybrid powertrain or constantly variable transmission (CVT).
In Australia, the Yaris Hybrid produces peak outputs of 85kW and 141Nm, claims mixed gasoline consumption of three.3L/100km, and is obtainable solely with front-wheel drive.
A extra highly effective hybrid powertrain is obtainable within the European-market Yaris Cross – which additionally went hybrid-only domestically in 2024 – however hasn’t been confirmed for Australian variations of both the SUV or the Yaris Hybrid hatch.
A brand new Mustard exterior color may even be out there, whereas Coral Crystal Shine – not presently supplied in Australia – will probably be dropped in Japan.
Different Japanese-market modifications embody black mirror caps, that are already commonplace on Australian Yaris Hybrid SX and ZR grades, whereas the two-tone paint possibility stays unique to the flagship mannequin in each markets.
Regardless of a gross sales improve of 23.8 per cent in 2025, the Yaris stays a comparatively low-volume mannequin for Toyota Australia, with 2810 gross sales for the yr. This determine was eclipsed by key rivals together with the MG 3 (8350 gross sales), Mazda 2 (4346) and Suzuki Swift (3446).
Gross sales of city-sized hatchbacks have continued to fall in recent times, declining an additional 5.0 per cent in 2025. The Yaris was additionally outsold nearly four-to-one by its SUV spin-off, the Yaris Cross, which recorded 10,928 gross sales.
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