Toyota GR Yaris 2019-2024 - Premium Head Unit Upgrade Kit: Radio Infotainment System with Wired & Wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto Compatibility

The Toyota GR Yaris occupies a unique and celebrated niche in automotive culture, blending motorsport heritage with exhilarating real-world drivability. Since launching, the GR Yaris has swiftly garnered enthusiastic praise for its compact yet aggressive styling, spirited performance, and authentic rally-bred DNA. However, the story behind the GR Yaris is deeply embedded in Toyota's rich tradition of compact sporty cars, evolving over the generations through focused iterations committed to performance, reliability, and driver engagement.

Historical Heritage Behind the Toyota Yaris Family:

1. Toyota Starlet (1973 – 1999)
The Yaris lineage traces back indirectly to Toyota's small yet agile Starlet, which became an enduring favorite across international markets including Europe and Japan. Renowned for lightweight efficiency, compact dimensions, and spirited handling, the Starlet brought affordable, spirited motoring to the masses. Models like the Starlet GT Turbo (EP82 & EP91), with their potent turbocharged engines and nimble suspensions, remain revered benchmarks of performance hatchbacks from Toyota.

2. First Generation Yaris/Vitz (1999 – 2005)
Succeeding the Starlet, the Toyota Yaris—in Japan known as the Toyota Vitz—debuted as an advanced compact hatchback engineered for practicality matched by enduring appeal. Affordable but quality-rich interior appointments and a smooth-driving character earned global acclaim. Enthusiasts particularly appreciated special sporty versions such as Japan's Vitz RS, known for offering dynamic performance benefits in a compact package.

3. Second Generation Yaris/Vitz (2005 – 2010)
Further refining comfort, spaciousness, and efficiency, this generation explicitly embraced a global audience. Toyota enriched the model with improved styling, enhanced safety, and various performance-oriented trims that retained driver-friendly attributes sought by driving aficionados. Toyota continued offering performance variations like the RS trim, balancing practical family usability with responsive handling and increased engine vigor.

4. Third Generation Yaris/Vitz (2011 – 2020)
Significant advances in cabin comfort, vehicle dynamics, and safety marked the third-generation's evolution. With smoother lines and increased spaciousness, this Yaris appealed widely, yet performance variants preserved its enthusiast credentials. International markets enjoyed the introduction of variants like the Yaris GRMN (Gazoo Racing Masters of Nürburgring) launched in 2017, featuring limited-run exclusivity, powerful supercharged engines, and chassis refinements making it a highly coveted hot hatch.

5. Fourth Generation and Toyota GR Yaris (2019 – Present)
When the fourth-generation Yaris platform transitioned to Toyota’s advanced small-vehicle architecture, the introduction of the high-performance GR Yaris astonished enthusiasts worldwide. Co-developed with Toyota Gazoo Racing—acclaimed for prestigious motorsport programs—the GR Yaris broke from traditional hatchback design by merging genuine motorsport technology directly into its compact, muscular build.

Notably, the GR Yaris departed drastically from its stablemates by emphasizing lightweight construction and utilizing an advanced four-wheel-drive system inspired directly from Toyota’s ambitions in the World Rally Championship (WRC). Beneath its purposeful, aggressively sculpted body, enthusiasts found a remarkable combination of motorsport-derived elements including an aluminum intensive construction, a powerful 1.6-liter turbocharged three-cylinder engine producing 257–268 horsepower depending on the market, paired impressively with a sophisticated full-time GR-Four All-Wheel Drive drivetrain. This formula translated directly into impressive agility, responsive dynamic feedback, and thrilling acceleration, firmly cementing the GR Yaris’ status within contemporary enthusiast circles globally.

Enhancing the Automotive Experience with Modern Infotainment:

While the GR Yaris is fundamentally oriented towards driver pleasure and dynamic performance, the standard infotainment setup in some markets has faced criticism for offering limited functionality and connectivity. To address this, Brummstadt provides an enticing modern infotainment solution crafted specifically for Toyota GR Yaris models produced between 2019 and 2024. Offering broad compatibility, the Brummstadt head unit effortlessly integrates modern interfaces through both wired and wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. This replacement solution maintains a sleek factory-look dash panel allowing a sophisticated technology center that feels organic and ergonomic within the vehicle interior.

Whether navigating urban centers, highways, or isolated driving routes, this integration vastly simplifies journeys by supporting commonly trusted navigation apps like Google Maps, Apple Maps or WAZE seamlessly displayed on a high-resolution vibrant touchscreen. Imagine a casual evening meal with family. En route to visiting friends afterward, a simple route entered initially on a smartphone transitions immediately onto the dashboard screen via wireless CarPlay or Android Auto, providing uninterrupted convenience that keeps attention focused calmly on the road.

Further enhancing driver and passenger connectivity is the available upgrade option offering high-definition 1080p cameras both front and rear, providing responsive recording capability, evidence for unforeseeable circumstances, clearer situational awareness, and peace-of-mind security both on track and public roads.

The infotainment integration brings more engaging features through USB-connected game controllers—allowing passengers, whether family or friends, to turn long road trips or traffic delays into immersive gaming sessions, thus introducing unique experiential elements not typically expected in the compact sports segment.

Additionally, intelligent voice-control capability improves everyday usability. Beyond traditional hands-free call management and media selection, voice command interactions through popular smart assistants such as Siri or Google Assistant extend smoothly beyond the vehicle itself. A typical example includes remotely activating home smart devices like external lighting when approaching residential properties, ensuring driver convenience and everyday safety through seamless communication between vehicle infotainment and a connected modern lifestyle.

Driving Dynamics and Inspirational Advantages of GR Yaris:

The GR Yaris represents Toyota's committed pursuit of driving performance, emotional excitement, and real-world usability. Its combination of focused chassis dynamics, robust power delivery, agile handling, and enjoyable ride builds a driver-focused ethos hard to replicate within the compact performance segment. Owners and automotive commentators alike frequently praise Toyota's strategic choice of pairing race-proven technologies and build advancements—such as aluminum paneling, extensive carbon fiber-reinforced polymer components, performance brakes, and a competition-grade all-wheel-drive system—with genuine on-road utility.

Integrating modern infotainment technology and specially curated aftermarket improvements such as Brummstadt's infotainment unit not only boosts everyday practicality but adds considerable long-term satisfaction to ownership, accommodating contemporary connectivity expectations, enhancing passenger entertainment, promoting safer driving interactions, and connecting driving joy authentically to contemporary lifestyles.

Ultimately, the Toyota GR Yaris symbolizes Toyota’s strategic merging of racing expertise and technological excellence into a remarkably potent yet accessible compact sports car. With thoughtful technology and infotainment choices complementing its motorsport-infused engineering, it stands confidently as one of the most exhilarating, spirited, and emotional compact performance vehicles produced in modern automotive history.