Roughly the same size as the 3-door, the 5-door Yaris hatch has been rolling up mileage in markets as close as Canada for years. Here in the US the Liftback commanded instant success, but despite MPG stats in the upper thirties it remained largely unappealing to older car buyers and those with families. Autoblog Green agrees that the extra pair of doors, as well as "the addition of standard front side and rear curtain airbags," and optional cruise control will effectively solve that problem.

Photos above depict the UK model with an Atari-like digital instrument cluster. The American variant should be a spitting image of the Canadian Yaris, which has analog gauges like those on the 3-door Yaris Liftback S.