Reader Kenneth Irwin sent in these nice photos of his Toyota Vios Turbo in Thailand. It’s a 1.5 turbocharged manual version. Even the fact that it’s manual is something we don’t see here in Malaysia. Let’s have a look at the car. Click here to read the rest of Toyota Vios Turbo
Toyota has launched an updated version of the Toyota Corolla hatch in the place where everyone loves hatches - Europe. Click here to read the rest of Toyota Corolla Compressor
Toyota Motor Corp Katsuaki Watanabe said Toyota may consider setting up hybrid vehicle plants somewhere in the ASEAN region if there is sufficient demand for hybrid vehicles in the region.
Although Toyota already has a big presence in the Thai automotive industry, it could also choose Malaysia as it’s hybrid manufacturing hub. Watanabe said it depends on where the demand is coming from. There are no immediately plans, and hybrid vehicle manufacturing requires sophisticated machines.
Toyota plans accumulated sales of 1 million hybrid vehicles, running on the road by 2010. It is already half way there, with sales of 470,000 so far since the introduction of the Toyota Prius in 1997.
Source: StarBiz
Toyota had just launched this new model in Japan earlier this month on 8-10 October 2005. The Toyota Ractis is a compact mini-MPV class of car. Quite similiar to the Toyota Passo/Daihatsu Boon/Perodua Myvi type of vehicle.
Toyota is going the hybrid path after it’s hybrid models especially the Toyota Prius have shown tremendous success.
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Toyota Prius
With the new Honda City facelift coming soon on the 11th this month, it’s time it’s direct competitor the Toyota Vios got updated too to keep up with the competition. This is the facelifted Toyota Vios which is already available in Taiwan, launched on the 28th September 2005. Click here to read the rest of 2006 Toyota Vios Facelift
This may be old news but I have not blogged on it before as it happened way back in February 2005 before I shifted the focus of my blog to automobiles. Click here to read the rest of Hyundai rejects Toyota offer
Toyota has posted some information on their upcoming 2006 Toyota RAV4, the third in it’s successful lineage.
Toyota has launched the Toyota Fortuner here in Malaysia with two models, a 2.7V and 2.5G model.
Here’s an interview with Toyota’s technical director of engines on the 2006 V8 engine which the team tested recently.
The engine is expected to produce about 730-760 horsepower which is about 80% of the best V10 engines of the 2005 series. The engine will rev higher than the V10s currently. Click here to read the rest of Toyota V8 Power!
