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The Toyota Yaris small car family has reached a total of 10 million sales globally in the 25th year of production.
It joins Toyota’s other milestone eight-figure sales achievers – the Corolla, the Camry, the RAV4, the Hilux and the Land Cruiser.
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 Toyota 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).
The current fourth-generation model was named European Car of the Year in 2021. It is Toyota Australia’s most fuel-efficient car with hybrid variants offering an official combined fuel-consumption figure of just 3.3 litres/100km1.
At launch, it was the only vehicle in its class with front-centre airbags, intended to protect the heads of front-seat occupants, and a driver-assist system designed to detect and automatically brake to help avoid pedestrians and vehicles at intersections.
The “family” grew to include the GR Yaris performance sports car and the high-riding Yaris Cross urban SUV in 2020.
The Yaris is 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.
