There are garage projects, and there’s the stuff that Justin White of the Garage Avenger channel on Youtube puts together. His projects see him put together go-kart sized vehicles made up of unlikely parts like wooden pallets and pushcart trolleys. His crowning achievement, however, has to be his 1:2-scale Toyota GR Yaris Rally1.
Without the context of people or other (full-sized) cars placed around it, it’s hard to fully comprehend just how small it really is in the real world. It’s just a bit larger than a go-kart, but the proportions and details are so spot-on that it could be mistaken for the real deal in some photos.
The half-sized GR Yaris has a 3D-printed body made up of 123 parts meticulously glued and sanded down to create the car’s silhouette. That shell was then mounted on top of a cross-kart chassis, which is exactly what it sounds like: a go-kart-sized chassis built for dirt racing. Perfect for capturing the spirit of the real GR Yaris, don’t you think?
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Given the super compact size of the vehicle, the doors don’t open. Instead, you hop in and out of the driver’s seat through the detachable roof. Other functional parts include sliding plexiglass windows as well as functioning head and taillights.
It’s a seriously impressive creation, so much so that Toyota itself flew out Justin and his team to the opening round of the World Rally Championship earlier this year in Monte Carlo to have it run at a rally stage in the French Alps and exhibit it alongside the real GR Yaris.
Beneath the bite-sized rally car’s plastic shell is a high-revving motorcycle engine that White says makes around 118hp—absolute rocket power for a machine of its size and mass. The way it barrels down tarmac and dirt is proof enough, but he’s specified that in testing he was able to reach speeds of around 94kph, but speeds of 150kph theoretically reachable with enough run-up.
The car was originally finished in matte black which gave it this lowkey prototype look, but it was eventually wrapped with this year’s official Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team livery. It’s the cherry on top to make it look even more like the real deal, and the perfect way to cap off a 13-month-long project.
