I’ve been thinking about this for a while. I’ve seen videos of 2008 and other Yaris models from around that time, and noticed they have different gauge clusters. My dad drives one with a green display, but I’ve seen others with orange clusters and even some with a tachometer.
I’m guessing the differences come down to model trims, production years, and whether the car has a manual or automatic transmission.
Probably cost and to affect customer perception. Lower end gets a basic cluster but top end may get a colourful one so it feels more premium to justify the price. I’d assume they’re different across all trim levels.
I have the 2015 base model hatch and it’s all orange. Weird that it has a tacho when it’s auto but no temp gauge but I’m assuming that just for cost purposes.
@Ashton
I been in a 2008 base model, it has the colorful, first picture clusters.
Country and trim and facelifts. And I recall you are missing two that were in Thai cars and the sedan version. And the OG digital blue one that was the release version. Which after facelift they swapped with the 3rd tach on your pic.
I also noticed a difference in cluster colors where two otherwise identical vehicles only differ by model year, I never understood why.
Patton said:
I also noticed a difference in cluster colors where two otherwise identical vehicles only differ by model year, I never understood why.
In Europe at least you might have seen the Life trim vs Sol. Life was introduced in 2010 as a replacement of the Sol trim and features a different cluster. So it might have been a 2009 Sol vs a 2010 Life.
Different trims, facelifts, countries.
For gen 2 xp90 Yaris we get from 2006-2008 the green ones with no tach for US, in Europe and Japan at least we get digital clusters in green similar to MK1 Yaris and finally analog ones with tach in orange for the Yaris SR 1.8.
After the facelift, 2008-2011 ones get orange analog dials like the SR with tach or not, at least here in Europe. I think no tach at all is more common on auto transmissions.
Mine was like the 3rd one “tach” but white. 2007 hatchback 4 doors.
Pre-facelift and facelift.
