The new Toyota C-HR has won the first Parkers New Car of the Year Award, beating off competition from the Skoda Kodiaq, SEAT Ibiza and BMW 5 Series Touring. We recently had the new Toyota C-HR in for review, and we were very impressed. The C-HR is a car you could never have imagined from Toyota […]
Toyota Yaris GRMN – Toyota’s new 209bhp Yaris – now for just £299 a month
The Toyota Yaris GRMN, Toyota’s new hot hatch Yaris, can be had for just £299 a month in the UK for one of the few remaining of the 100 UK cars. The new Toyota Yaris GRMN was revealed back at the start of the year (although we thought it was going to be the Yaris […]
Toyota C-HR Hy-Power Concept gets clever cosmetics and the promise of more power
The Toyota C-HR Hy-Power Concept has been revealed at Frankfurt, with clever surface treatments and detailing and the promise of more hybrid power. Last week we had a tease for the Toyota C-HR Hy-Power which we assumed would be some sort of performance hybrid C-HR. And it is, although we not entirely sure what’s on offer. […]
Toyota Prius Plug-in Business Edition Plus Review (2017) – Toyota’s NEW Plug-in Prius on test
We’ve had the latest Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid in for review and test, with Business Edition Plus Spec. Is the Plug-in worth the premium over the regular Prius Hybrid? The Toyota Prius – Toyota’s Hybrid Trailblazer – has been with us for two decades already, and with the arrival of the fourth generation model it’s […]
Toyota C-HR Hy-Power Concept and NEW Land Cruiser heading for Frankfurt
Toyota are heading to the Frankfurt Motor Show with a C-HR Hy-Power Concept and a new Toyota Land Cruiser. But details are a bit thin on the ground. It’s only just over a year since the compact Toyota C-HR arrived, but Toyota are heading for the Frankfurt Motor Show with a new C-HR Concept – […]
Toyota joins the SCRAPPAGE Party with up to £4,000 off a new car
Toyota is the latest car maker to hop on the ‘scrappage to cut emissions’ bandwagon, offering new car buyers up to £4,000 if they have a dirty old car. The Scrappage scheme that launched when the economy tanked in 2009 did lots to boost sales for car makers, and with diesel anxiety running high all […]
Toyota Safe & Sound App EMBARRASSES your teenage driver in to being safe (Video)
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 […]