Test Drive: Toyota Yaris is bigger, cheesey, kinda fun  How do
you make a small car more popular? Make it bigger.    • The
Toyota Yaris won't win any art prizes but is surprisingly fun.
Sponsored Links  Happens often, and car companies always say
it's in response to what customers say they want. Today's Honda
Civic is as big as yesterday's Honda Accord, for instance.
Today's Scion xB is huge compared with the original.  Seemingly
on cue, Toyota has put the stretcher on its Yaris subcompact for
2012. The car's now a few inches bigger and — trickier to do — a
few pounds lighter.  The sedan's been dropped. Yaris now comes
only as a three-door or five-door hatchback.  The new Yaris
platform is related to that of the Prius c, the new small car
joining the Prius hybrid lineup, so the Yaris needed some
modifications if only to be in synch mechanically with the new
Prius.  Test Drive by James R. Healey  Search his reviews  Or
search Test Drive by date.  Short take on Yaris: Cheap-o, but
roomier and more fun to d