Toyota GR Yaris Looks Great With 1990s Rally-Spec Celica Livery

Initially, hearing about a Toyota Yaris being used as a tribute to the great Celica GT-Four rally car sounds like heresy, as these two cars share nothing in common. The Yaris is a small city hatchback that's made to ferry people from point A to point B, while the other's dedicated to doing so as fast as possible – even better on rally races.

But we're not talking about a regular Yaris here; it's the Toyota GR Yaris – a three-door hatchback that was introduced as a homologation model for the Toyota GR Yaris WRC. And just like the Celica GT-Four that it aims to succeed, the Toyota GR Yaris is a fierce model that's worthy of current hype.

As a tribute to that, Shmee took his GR Yaris to the shop and have it customized to wear the famous Celica GT-Four's Castrol livery. To the fans of World Rally Championship and Sega Rally, this color combination should instantly ring a bell. Of note, the Celica GT-Four has won two manufacturer's and four driver's titles when it competed in the Group A of WRC from 1988 to 1997.

Using the same green and red swoops in the body, Dub Customs scanned and plotted the graphics into Shmee's GR Yaris. That posed a challenge, though, since the Celica was a liftback coupe while the GR Yaris is a hot hatchback.

Then again, the final product is a hoot, and you can watch the entire process in the video embedded . This Toyota GR Yaris in Castrol livery looks awesome, and quite nostalgic too, and we think that it's a proper tribute to the great Toyota rally car.