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 petrol cars are a better bet than a diesel.

But as Toyota hybrids get better every year – and they really are very good now – more and more buyers have been brave and opted for a hybrid instead of a diesel, and that shift has been given added momentum by the loss of faith in diesel-engined cars after the VW Dieselgate fiasco.

If evidence is needed that car buyers are starting to ‘get’ hybrids, and eschew diesels, we need look no further than the big increase in sales Toyota hybrids have enjoyed in the first six months of 2017.

Toyota Hybrid sales in the UK are up an impressive 30.6 per cent in the first half, with sales to business users – always the biggest diesel market – rising by an even more impressive 43.2 per cent.

That means that over 40 per cent of all cars Toyota sell in the UK is now a hybrid, and Toyota are clearly chuffed at the impressive growth.

Mark Roden, Toyota GB’s Sales Director, said:

Hybrid is no longer a secret, or a mystery. We’re seeing growth in sales at huge levels and that’s because customers recognise the benefits of hybrid in fuel efficiency, in environmental impact and in the smooth, quiet drive hybrid gives.

Toyota has led the way for two decades in making hybrid technology available to everyone. We have proven technology, famous reliability and the most exciting range of hybrid cars we’ve ever offered. I’m delighted that more people than ever are enjoying the benefits of them.

But it’s not just in the UK where Hybrid sales for Toyota are rising strongly, with sales in Europe up by 44 per cent too, driven to a big degree by the almost 80/20 ration of hybrid to non-hybrid C-HR sales. As for Lexus, 99 per cent of their sales are hybrid.

And we have to say, that despite a degree of indifference in the past to hybrids at Cars UK Towers, we’ve had a number of hybrid Toyota/Lexus models in for review this year – like the Lexus GS 300h, new Toyota Prius and Lexus NX 300h – and they really are now very, very good.

Now every other car maker has to try and catch up with Toyota