RICHARD PORTER

IN 1928, AFTER MORE THAN A DECADE OF experimentation and perseverance, American inventor Otto Rohwedder finally built and sold his first power-driven, multi-bladed cutting machine to the Chillicothe Baking Company of Missouri. They put it straight to work on their products to give the world something new: sliced bread. And that was pretty much it until the Toyota GR Yaris was launched.

Oh God, the GR Yaris, that pugnacious 1280-kilo frotting pole for the nation’s car media. You must be sick of hearing about the GR Yaris