Toyota GT86 – a real driver's car
14/12/12 16:17 Filed in: Road tests
I lined the Toyota GT86 up at the start of hil. I was a little concerned, but I gently squeezed the throttle. The road was quite narrow and I knew there was a danger of slithering off. I felt elated as crested the first rise and entered the tricky, rising left hander that so often brings such efforts to a halt.
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Read More...Toyota's other hybrid model, the Auris
19/02/11 10:58 Filed in: Road tests
The benefit of being first to market is that you establish a name for yourself. So it was with the Toyota Prius – the first mainstream hybrid car – which was launched onto the Japanese market in 1997. But it has taken until recently for Toyota to widen the range of hybrids under the Toyota brand. The first non-Prius Toyota hybrid to come my way is the Toyota Auris Hybrid.
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Prius revisited. The first hybrid matures well.
23/04/10 15:55 Filed in: Road tests
It is quite a number of years since I last drove the Toyota Prius – the world’s first mass-produced hybrid.
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Read More...Toyota go hybrid with the Auris
02/09/09 19:12 Filed in: News
At the forthcoming Frankfurt Motor Show (September 15 to 27), Toyota will take the wraps off its Auris HSD hybrid concept.
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Read More...Toyota IQ "a door on wheels"
25/08/09 15:36 Filed in: Road tests
“It’s a door on wheels!” That was the first reaction from interested onlookers when the Toyota IQ first rolled up into the office car park. Sure enough in profile it looks as though the side of the car is almost entirely composed of door.
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Read More...Toyota Auris practical, but not exciting
29/10/08 20:42 Filed in: Road tests
The Toyota Auris was designed in France for the European market and it is built here, at plants in the UK and Turkey.
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