The Toyota Yaris is a small car with very big news. The 2017 model comes standard with Toyota Safety Sense-C (TSS-C), a trio of driver assist technologies that help drivers get from point "A" to point "B" with safety assurance. Yaris offers both three-door and five-door body styles.

Toyota Safety Sense-C is designed to help address three key areas of driver assistance: preventing or mitigating frontal collisions, helping keep drivers within their lane, and to help enhance road safety during nighttime driving. Technologies include Toyota's Pre-Collision System, Lane Departure Alert and Automatic High Beams. Yaris is the first entry subcompact in the segment to standardize these key safety features across all grades.

On the fun side, this European-designed model offers a vibrant new color, Ruby Flare Pearl, a premium paint imbued with large metallic flakes. For the total custom look, this color is also available in combination with a Black Sand Pearl roof.

With its ultra-short overhangs and wheels pushed out to the corners, the Yaris offers a very roomy cabin. The five-door model offers up to 15.6 cu. ft. of carrying space (15.3 for three-door) behind the rear seats, about the size of a midsize sedan's trunk.

Yaris makes saving on fuel costs fun with a smooth-revving 1.5-liter four-cylinder engine. With 106 horsepower and 103 lb.-ft. of torque at 4,200 rpm, it's an eager performer.

For those who still like to row their own gears, the Yaris L three-door and SE are available with a slick-shifting five-speed manual transmission, featuring an easy-effort hydraulic clutch. A four-speed electronically controlled automatic transmission is available and is standard on LE.