HAVING just got our heads around Toyota’s light car being called the Echo, we are now being asked to shelve that and embrace the Yaris. Never mind. The new baby Toyota is clearly a redesigned Echo with a new badge. Which is fine, because the Echo was always an impressively packaged, well-built and capable light car with a greater sense of substance than some of its peers. The Yaris is slightly bigger, quite a bit heavier and potentially safer than Echo – provided you pay for it - and drives a tad better too. If only the VVT engine – in manual-transmission form – were a little more driver-friendly. It suffers the worst case of electronic flywheel we’ve seen in years.