I Love My Yaris

[Cyker]

Weeeeee! Went for a hoon up the A5 to my brother's place yesterday. Gorgeous weather, so clear and sunny!

Normally I take the M1, but for some reason I pulled off onto the A5 and I'm so glad I did!

Practically had the road to myself except for the town sections so I got to have a bit of fun with the car! Nice twisty A-road, plenty of up and down gradients and plenty of up and down in the rev range; Plenty of opportunities to get the turbo working hard!

The D4D feels so great for this sort of thing; It's got the pull to haul you up twisty gradients and you can leave it in 4th and let the revs climb because it has the room to do so!

The car availed itself well, even when I had a slightly scary moment when a group of rabbits ran out in front of me! So glad I put on newer tyres and those EBC's! Under hard braking, no squeal, a touch of ABS but little of the wobble that you can get in other cars under hard braking. Such balance! Car stopped, zero squashed rabbits!

Let the little fuzzy buggers move on then set off again, hauling up a curved incline under a tree canopy then and carried on up, cresting the hill then down and out into sunlight and a long open road flanked by some wide open fields! :D

Haven't done this for a while and am so glad I did; I think the car really needed it as it felt so much more responsive and loosened up by the end. It must have gotten bored of all the town driving and tedious motorway runs!

Totally murdered my mpg score, but sometimes driving enjoyment trumps mpg ;)

[Lustral]

I had a bit of a hoon on the way back home from Bournemouth to Southampton this morning. The car still surprises a lot of other drivers in their more able / powerful cars.

Love it when i go manual mode and downshift to get 4.5K Rpms then it starts gathering pace quite quickly.

[Cyker]

It's not just the Corolla lads that get to have fun with 'lift' 'eh? ;) :D

[Red Yaris 54]

Weeeeee! Went for a hoon up the A5 to my brother's place yesterday. Gorgeous weather, so clear and sunny!

Normally I take the M1, but for some reason I pulled off onto the A5 and I'm so glad I did!

Practically had the road to myself except for the town sections so I got to have a bit of fun with the car! Nice twisty A-road, plenty of up and down gradients and plenty of up and down in the rev range; Plenty of opportunities to get the turbo working hard!

The D4D feels so great for this sort of thing; It's got the pull to haul you up twisty gradients and you can leave it in 4th and let the revs climb because it has the room to do so!

The car availed itself well, even when I had a slightly scary moment when a group of rabbits ran out in front of me! So glad I put on newer tyres and those EBC's! Under hard braking, no squeal, a touch of ABS but little of the wobble that you can get in other cars under hard braking. Such balance! Car stopped, zero squashed rabbits!

Let the little fuzzy buggers move on then set off again, hauling up a curved incline under a tree canopy then and carried on up, cresting the hill then down and out into sunlight and a long open road flanked by some wide open fields! :D

Haven't done this for a while and am so glad I did; I think the car really needed it as it felt so much more responsive and loosened up by the end. It must have gotten bored of all the town driving and tedious motorway runs!

Totally murdered my mpg score, but sometimes driving enjoyment trumps mpg ;)

Very dangerous to brake hard just to avoid rabbits..........but pleased to hear your brakes met your expectations :)

[Madasafish]

I just run over rabbits: far safer. And cats... And dogs if they run in front of me.. Brake for cyclists and humans (the two are sometimes exclusive:-)

[Cyker]

But but they're so cute and fluffy! :(

TBH I might have in my younger days, but I once ran over a pigeon at 5mph in a services and couldn't believe all the bits of gore and feathers smushed into my wheels and sprayed over the lower wheel area... Cleaning it all off was fun... What was worse were the bits I'd missed in the tread which were thrown up all around the wheel arch...

Luckily that was the Fiesta, which I was already starting to despise by then. I didn't want to find out what effect 60mph + rabbits + wheels/front grill will have on my wubby Yaris!

In this case stopping was the best option IMHO; My options were stop, swerve or plough and as the road was totally empty stopping was a nobrainer (And it gave me a good excuse to make sure my brakes are still working at peak efficiency Don't want a repeat of last time...! )

Also I think it would have put a major downer on my joyride knowing I'd have to fish bits of dead rabbit out of my front grill and bumper at the end ...

So awesome brakes and not-squashed rabbits!

(Knowing my luck a fox probably ate them on the other side of the hedgerow...)

BTW is it just me or does the Subaru quotient increase the further north you go??

[buklau111]

But but they're so cute and fluffy! :(

TBH I might have in my younger days, but I once ran over a pigeon at 5mph in a services and couldn't believe all the bits of gore and feathers smushed into my wheels and sprayed over the lower wheel area... Cleaning it all off was fun... What was worse were the bits I'd missed in the tread which were thrown up all around the wheel arch...

Luckily that was the Fiesta, which I was already starting to despise by then. I didn't want to find out what effect 60mph + rabbits + wheels/front grill will have on my wubby Yaris!

In this case stopping was the best option IMHO; My options were stop, swerve or plough and as the road was totally empty stopping was a nobrainer (And it gave me a good excuse to make sure my brakes are still working at peak efficiency Don't want a repeat of last time...! )

Also I think it would have put a major downer on my joyride knowing I'd have to fish bits of dead rabbit out of my front grill and bumper at the end ...

So awesome brakes and not-squashed rabbits!

(Knowing my luck a fox probably ate them on the other side of the hedgerow...)

BTW is it just me or does the Subaru quotient increase the further north you go??

Same as the Auris, here in London they're ever so rare and when we travel up north they're everywhere! :O