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 .”

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

For the 2025 Tokyo Auto Salon, Toyota made the hot hatch even hotter by putting a bigger powertrain behind the seats. Yes, this Yaris has a mid-engine layout. Toyota installed a new engine rather than the small "G16E-GTS" unit in the GR Yaris,

The return of the Toyota MR2 is closer than ever before, after the car giant revealed a mid-engined GR Yaris to act as a test bed.