Toyota are adding two new models at the top of the Yaris range – the Toyota Yaris T Spirit and Toyota Yaris SR. On sale January 2011. The Toyota Yaris isn’t the coolest supermini on the block, but it does have a certain appeal and the benefit of being a proper ‘mini’ car – perfect […]
Toyota Prius T Spirit Review & Road Test (2010) Part 2
Part 2 of our review and road test of the Toyota Prius T Spirit. Is the Prius a decent drive or does it offer nothing for the keen driver? We’ve said before that reviewing a car – any car – requires not just subjectivity but objectivity too. Besides giving our opinion on a car we […]
Toyota Prius T Spirit Review & Road Test (2010 / 2011)
We have the best selling hybrid car in the world – the Toyota Prius (Toyota Prius T Spirit) – in for review and road test this week. Hype, fiction or fact? We’ll find out. There are many – us included – who thought it extremely unlikely that Toyota would ever want to send us any […]
Toyota Prius T Spirit Review & Road Test (2010) Part 3
In the final part of our review & road test of the Toyota Prius, we discover it makes a brilliant Transport Appliance. It seems to us that the Prius is a mode of transport, not a car in the sense we enjoy a car. It’s not about feeding sensations back to the driver or a […]
Toyota RAV4 EV: Powered by Tesla – the tease
Toyota are teasing an electric RAV4 put together by Tesla – the Toyota RAV4 EV: Powered by Tesla – ahead of a Los Angeles Motor Show reveal. Back in May we reported that Toyota had fished down the back of the sofa for some loose change (£35 million – two days profits) and had thrown […]
Toyota Prius Generation “X” Revealed UPDATE: ‘Prius 10th Anniversary’
Toyota has revealed a Limited Edition Prius – the Toyota Prius Generation “X” – to celebrate 10 years in the UK. Just 1,000 being built at £26,150. Update: We had an email from Toyota this morning asking us to correct this article. Apparently, despite titling the press release they sent us ‘Toyota Prius Generation “X”‘, […]
Toyota Prius MPV teased
Toyota are teasing the Toyota Prisu MPV – and other Prius – on Facebook with the tagline “The Prius family is getting a whole lot bigger” We reported back in May that Toyota were finally going to produce a Toyota Prius MPV – probably with an extra row of seats – in 2011. Which looks […]
Toyota Verso S – Paris Debut
Toyota will be launching a mini MPV – the Toyota Verso S – at the Paris Motor Show next month. It always seems like something of an oxymoron – mini MPV – but there really is no other way to describe Toyota’s new B-Class MPV – the Toyota Verso-S. Unfortunately, this release by Toyota is […]
Toyota Prius gets new option – Noise
Toyota are launching a noise device for the Prius to create a whirring sound when the Prius runs just on the electric motor. One of the big selling points for the Toyota Prius is its ability to run for short distances at low speed on electric-only power. Not only does that make the Prius zero […]
Electric Toyota RAV4 and Electric Lexus RX planned
Tesla are building two electric prototypes for Toyota, which we believe are an electric RAV4 and an electric Lexus RX I suppose it is logical once you’ve pinned your colours to the mast on the half-electric hybrid future that a logical extension would be all electric versions. And that seems to be what Toyota are […]