For a car to be fun to drive, there has to be something that gets the blood pumping, something that puts a smile on your face, something that makes battling through traffic to reach your destination almost worth the hassle. All kinds of vehicles of various styles and sizes fill the bill, though not one of them carries a Yaris badge.

It can be wrung out, the styling can be considered cute, and it offers a decent list of desired features, but at the end of the day the Yaris is a repackaged subcompact commuter car serving as A to B transportation and swilling as little fuel as possible. Fun is absent from the equation.