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Finally I have got to make a thread about our Verso. I still wonder if there was a point, as the car is extremely close to stock. The car is though pretty clean and unique as the US never got this car, the Verso is EDM only (although FunCargo was the JDM version).
The Verso was bought back in 2000, in April. We ticked of for the Sol version and added metallic paint and, mudflaps and bumper protector mouldings to the options list. The choice was down to Summer Red, Polar Silver, Spectral Blue and Sparkling Beige and after much decisions and thinking we chose the latter, Sparkling Beige.
So, we had colour, options and grade, now it was ready to go. Our Yaris Verso has been the daily driver and the only car in the family, but it has rarely been driven in the winter and not much on a day to day basis in the summer either, as we live close to everything with city transport, the car is in limited use. However, the Verso has excelled on the longer trips. It has been standing in Madrid, Spain, driving in Loire, France, floating in Venice, Italy and tested several times on Die Autobahn, Germany. Not to mention the two trips to the British Isles, one in 2003 driving from Newcastle, to John 'O' Groats and back to N'Castle, and one this summer, from London-ish (I cannot remember the port's name right now, came in from the Netherlands) to Wales, over to Ireland, around the whole island, up to Belfast and over to Scotland and back to the port via Cumbria and Oxford. Great memories.
To illustrate how little the "box" has been in daily use, it has racked up 41.000 miles over the past six and a half years and probably 15.000 of those has been done abroad with highway driving.
The only modification today is a gearknob from a Volkswagen Golf Mk I Cabriolet (from Austria). Have you ever used a gearknob from a Yaris Verso? Hopeless thing, as it's thick, big and heavy. No. then it's better with a light and round knob from the early 90's, when this thing called plastic just was invented.
I have to find a new gearknob, as the 'knob from the Cabby isn't fastened like it should be. I want something small and round, and perhaps with 3 or 4 gears with reverse in the top left corner, not with 5 speeds and reverse in down right corner.
Allright, some pictures would may be appropriate.
I have thought of some future mods. Simple yet effective touches, like facelift front. However, will dashboard from Yaris T-Sport and front seats from Yaris T-Sport fit the Verso? The interior of the late T-Sport is much hotter than the early Yaris Verso, obviously. Oh, yeah and if the engine blows for some weird reason (in a couple of years, hopefully not now) a 1.5 1NZ is finding it's way into the bay. Has the Verso 1.5 got disc brakes in the rear? Also, anybody making coilovers for the Yaris dropping it more than the standard 40mm? Will these fit the Verso?
More immediate plans is to rattle can paint the hubcaps matte black, as they are ugly already.
Thanks for looking
Eirik
The Verso was bought back in 2000, in April. We ticked of for the Sol version and added metallic paint and, mudflaps and bumper protector mouldings to the options list. The choice was down to Summer Red, Polar Silver, Spectral Blue and Sparkling Beige and after much decisions and thinking we chose the latter, Sparkling Beige.
So, we had colour, options and grade, now it was ready to go. Our Yaris Verso has been the daily driver and the only car in the family, but it has rarely been driven in the winter and not much on a day to day basis in the summer either, as we live close to everything with city transport, the car is in limited use. However, the Verso has excelled on the longer trips. It has been standing in Madrid, Spain, driving in Loire, France, floating in Venice, Italy and tested several times on Die Autobahn, Germany. Not to mention the two trips to the British Isles, one in 2003 driving from Newcastle, to John 'O' Groats and back to N'Castle, and one this summer, from London-ish (I cannot remember the port's name right now, came in from the Netherlands) to Wales, over to Ireland, around the whole island, up to Belfast and over to Scotland and back to the port via Cumbria and Oxford. Great memories.
To illustrate how little the "box" has been in daily use, it has racked up 41.000 miles over the past six and a half years and probably 15.000 of those has been done abroad with highway driving.
The only modification today is a gearknob from a Volkswagen Golf Mk I Cabriolet (from Austria). Have you ever used a gearknob from a Yaris Verso? Hopeless thing, as it's thick, big and heavy. No. then it's better with a light and round knob from the early 90's, when this thing called plastic just was invented.
I have to find a new gearknob, as the 'knob from the Cabby isn't fastened like it should be. I want something small and round, and perhaps with 3 or 4 gears with reverse in the top left corner, not with 5 speeds and reverse in down right corner.
Allright, some pictures would may be appropriate.
I have thought of some future mods. Simple yet effective touches, like facelift front. However, will dashboard from Yaris T-Sport and front seats from Yaris T-Sport fit the Verso? The interior of the late T-Sport is much hotter than the early Yaris Verso, obviously. Oh, yeah and if the engine blows for some weird reason (in a couple of years, hopefully not now) a 1.5 1NZ is finding it's way into the bay. Has the Verso 1.5 got disc brakes in the rear? Also, anybody making coilovers for the Yaris dropping it more than the standard 40mm? Will these fit the Verso?
More immediate plans is to rattle can paint the hubcaps matte black, as they are ugly already.
Thanks for looking
Eirik
