The first of the line, designed at Toyota’s European ED2 studio and launched in Japan in January 1999 before reaching Europe as the “Yaris”, Australasia as the “Echo”, and eventually Canada the same way in 2003.[1] Three names for one car was the whole point: it was built to sell everywhere at once.
The dimensions and weight recorded here come from the North American Echo saloon’s NHTSA registration rather than a manufacturer figure for the hatchback: the two body styles shared their platform and front doors but differ elsewhere, so this is a market-specific figure, not read across markets.