If you said the words “Toyota Yaris” to most people, chances are good they wouldn’t exactly quake in their boots. Now, there is of course the bonkers all-wheel-drive GR Yaris that plenty of enthusiasts outside the U.S. got, but that’s a different story. Still, the little car (yes, car) we’re about to tell you about isn’t one of those, either. Instead, it goes by the project name “Yaris Jr,” because it’s a wee bit smaller than a GR Yaris.
You see, as cool as the GR Yaris is from the factory, that’s also the problem with it if you’re, say, a group of students at an automotive college who are looking for a project. The GR Yaris is for driving, not for hefty modification. I mean, where’s the challenge? Instead, a group of Saitama Institute of Automotive Technology students decided to get elbow-deep in the guts of a tiny little Toyota iQ—made over to look like a tiny GR Yaris.
