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May 25, 2013

Toyota Auris Hybrid emissions cut to 84g/km

Photo of Toyota Auris Hybrid Hatch & Estate

The emissions of the Toyota Auris Hybrid have been cut to just 84g/km as Toyota tweak the Auris to deliver lower emissions and improved economy. The latest Toyota Auris is a much better car than the previous generation, and the new Auris Touring Sports is a sensible addition to the range. But it’s the hybrid [...]

Toyota ME.WE Concept: It’s an egalitarian EV

Toyota ME.WE Concept on beach with young couple

The Toyota ME.WE Concept is a utilitarian, compact electric car from Toyota with interchangeable body panels created with Jean-Marie Massaud. Jean-Marie Massaud is a French designer and architect who’s creations tend to be on the minimalist side. So if he’s playing at concept cars with Toyota, you’d expect the result to be a bit short on luxuries and equipment. And [...]

Toyota & Lexus: Hybrid sales in Europe hit 20%

Toyota Hybrid Badge photo

Toyota has revealed that sales of hybrid Toyota and Lexus cars have hit 20 per cent of total sales in Europe in the first quarter of 2013. The ‘Green’ evangelists want to get us all driving electric cars to save the planet, but in the real world car drivers want a car that offers them all the practicality of [...]

Toyota i-Road – a three-wheel EV for Geneva 2013

Toyota i-Road picture

The Toyota i-Road Concept has been revealed ahead of the Geneva Motor Show. It’s a three-wheeled EV designed as an urban transport solution. Car makers may have spent the last few years trying to get us to fall in love with electric cars, but without real success. But if there is a way to make [...]

Toyota FT-86 Open Concept: The GT86 Convertible arrives early + video

Toyota FT-86 Open Concept image

The Toyota GT86 Convertible – in the guise of the FT-86 Open Concept has arrived earlier than Toyota would like ahead of a Geneva debut. Toyota teased the convertible GT86 with a sketch of the FT-86 Open Concept a few weeks ago – with a promise that all would be revealed at the 2013 Geneva [...]

Toyota Auris Touring Sports: Price from £15,595

Toyota Auris Touring Sports picture

The new Toyota Auris Touring Sports – the Auris Estate – will start from £15,595 for the Active 1.33-litre Dual VVT-i rising to £22,845 for the Excel Hybrid. Last week we had some basic specifications arrive for the new Toyota Auris Touring Sports – mainly its load-lugging capacity – but no real detail about trim levels or price. [...]

Toyota Auris Touring Sports Specification – but no price

Toyota Auris Touring Sports image

Toyota has revealed specifications for the Auris Estate – the Toyota Auris Touring Sports – but has yet to come up with a price. The Toyota Auris Touring Sports – the Auris Estate, in simple terms – arrived at the Paris Motor Show last year, and a convincing looking effort it seems. At the time, apart from learning the Auris [...]

Toyota GT86 Convertible spied in South Africa

Toyota GT86 Convertible spy photo

Ahead of a reveal of a concept version of the Toyota GT86 Convertible at the Geneva Motor Show, the soft-top GT86 has been spied Almost a year ago we learned that a Toyota GT86 Convertible was in the planning after Toyota’s chief engineer, Tetsuya Tada, revealed that the GT86 (and therefore the Scion FR-S and Subaru BRZ) were [...]

Top Gear Tonight: Toyota GT86, Shelby Mustang GT500 race to Milan & Amy McDonald is SIARPC

Jeremy Clarkason sliding orange Toyota GT86 image

Top Gear Series 19 Episode 3 tonight sees Jeremy in the Toyota GT86, a race to Milan’s San Siro Stadium in the Shelby Mustang GT500  & Amy McDonald is SIARPC. It’s episode 3 of Top Gear Series 19 tonight, and the first two episodes have been distinctly decent. Tonight’s episode looks promising too. Unlike last week – when there was [...]

Toyota GT86 TRD: Price from £31,495 – just 250 for the UK

Photo of Toyota GT86 TRD

The Toyota GT86 TRD – a GT86 titivated by Toyota Racing Development – will cost £31,495 in the UK. Just 250 available. Last year we got news that the Toyota GT86 was getting itself a special edition titivated by Toyota Racing Development – the Toyota GT86 TRD – and that it was heading for the UK too. [...]