Toyota has revealed a new App for Smartphones – Safe & Sound – which embarrasses young drivers in to being safe by playing uncool music when they misbehave behind the wheel. It almost sounds like an April Fool, but Toyota are entirely serious about playing un-cool music to recalcitrant teenage drivers to get them to […]
Toyota Yaris GRMN gets UK debut at CarFest North – UK gets 100 GRMNs
The new Toyota Yaris GRMN has had its UK debut at Chris Evans CarFest North, with a quarter of the allocation of the GRMN coming to the UK. At the Geneva Motor Show in the spring, the Toyota Yaris GRMN was revealed (although we’d expected it to be the Yaris Gazoo) as a limited run of […]
Toyota will launch electric cars with solid-state batteries in 2022 – bang on track
According to the Japanese media, Toyota is on-track to deliver the solid state batteries in electric cars by 2022, increasing range and reducing charge time. Toyota has been a bit late to the battery electric vehicle (BEV), preferring top focus on hybrids, which has definitely worked, and on fuel cell hydrogen cars – which haven’t […]
Toyota Hybrid sales in the UK up by OVER 30 per cent this year
Toyota Hybrid sales have risen by 30.6 per cent in the UK in the first six months of 2017, with hybrid sales to businesses up by a massive 43.2 per cent. It’s taken a very long time for the world to catch up with what Toyota has been preaching for years – that hybrid electric […]
2017 Toyota Aygo X-Cite gets bigger spec and Red and Black paint job as Toyota titivate their City Car
The Toyota X-Cite has been titivated for 2017, with a bright red paint job and contrasting black roof and comes with a bigger spec. Costs from £12,520 in the UK. The Toyota Aygo is a great little City Car, and despite more modern competition it still has appeal, and still sells. In part that’s down […]
Toyota Auris Hybrid GB25 celebrates 25 years of Toyota in the UK – costs from £24,045
The Toyota Auris Hybrid GB25 has been revealed as a Special Edition Auris Hybrid celebrating 25 years since Toyota started building cars in the UK. Toyota has been building cars in the UK for 25 years, and to celebrate they’ve revealed a new special edition Auris which will add to the more than four million Toyotas […]
Toyota Aygo x-claim arrives as a Limited Edition Aygo Summer Special – Costs from £14,195
The Toyota Aygo x-claim has been revealed as a Limited Edition Aygo City Car for the summer, complete with retracting canvas roof. Costs from £14,195. We’ve just spent time with the Toyota Aygo X-Style and discovered that, despite it being a bit long in the tooth compared to much of the competition, it’s still a […]
Toyota Aygo X-Style Review (2017) – Toyota’s mid-range City Car tested
We’ve had the 2017 Toyota Aygo X-Style – one of Toyota’s latest mid-range trim levels – complete with 998cc 3-pot engine in for review. Is it still a contender? It’s more than a decade since Toyota took the plunge in to a proper little City Car, with the Aygo arriving in 2005 along with its […]
Toyota GT86 Orange Edition is Toyota’s first GT86 Club Series Limited Edition
The Toyota GT86 Orange Edition arrives as the first GT86 Club Series car, a new badge for limited edition GT86 models. Price from £28,800. The Toyota GT86, Toyota’s affordable sports car, has been with us for a while (actually, it’s more than five years), and got a facelift last year with some relatively mild cosmetic […]
Toyota C-HR Limited Edition arrives to top the C-HR range – costs £29,995
The Toyota C-HR Limited Edition arrives as a new range-topping C-HR hybrid with extra equipment and limited to just 100 units. Costs from £29,995. The Toyota C-HR perfectly encapsulates Toyota’s new funky future, and it’s a cracking little car. So, unsurprisingly, we’re getting a new range-topping C-HR to cash-in on that success – the Toyota […]