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It's almost a car that needs no introduction – but is completely deserving of one. We're talking about the Toyota Vios – the entry-level sedan offered to the Malaysian market. The recipe is fairly simple and straightforward: a front-engine, front-wheel drive sedan with a torsion beam rear for simplicity and packaging, and a 1.5-litre heart.

The Toyota Vios has followed this formula since its introduction to the world back in 2002 – and it's also a car that was developed largely for our market and our neighbours. Around this point in time, the Toyota Corolla had become too large and complex to be an entry-level model, and so the Vios was created to stand it for it as the budget-friendly option.

Exactly which generation of Vios this is is up for dispute – some regard it as a fourth-generation model (based on the Yaris Ativ in Thailand) while others view it as mechanically similar to the third-generation model that it replaced. Over time the range of variants has grown and shrunk – now the number stands at three, with a sportier fourth variant in the form of the Vios GR-S.