Toyota iQ to use 2-cylinder motorcycle engine?

Toyota iQ

The production version of the Toyota iQ will use a 2-cylinder 1.0 litre motorcycle-based engine, according to two Toyota executives in an interview with Automotive News Europe under the condition of anonymity. The engine will be designed in collaboration with Yamaha, which might also manufacture the engine for Toyota.

Toyota and Yamaha have worked together before on many engine projects. The high revving VVTL-i 2ZZ-GE was designed together with Yamaha, and was Toyota’s first all-aluminium engine. It is used in the Toyota Celica and the Lotus Elise. The 3S-GE and the 3S-GTE (but not the 3S-FE) also used Yamaha-tuned heads. Yamaha also contributed to the legendary 4A-GE. These modern days, Toyota still gets car engines such as the 4GR-FSE 2.5 litre V6 from Yamaha, and it is used in cars like the Toyota Mark X and the Lexus IS250.

The inline-2 engine will help reduce the iQ’s engine bay length, with the transmission being able to be located within the engine block and other usual engine bay space hogging culprits like air conditioning module being able to be bolted on the side of the engine. The whole engine module with ancillaries bolted on will be a single tall compact unit, installed in the front of the car.

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  • maibatsu_thunder (Member) on Oct 16, 2007 at 8:04 am

    I wonder how the Gordon Murray small car will be like? Remember the Prancing Mouse F500 you posted earlier? Now THAT was cool!

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  • kei9 (Member) on Oct 16, 2007 at 8:43 am

    Gonna be a bommer of all things supermini ;)

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  • renyeo (Member) on Oct 16, 2007 at 9:54 am

    Duh! I won’t touch this car with a ten-foot pole because of the engine. I have driven a Smart ForTwo; its 3-cylinder motor is barely tolerable. Now a motorcycle powerplant? You’d be betta off in a Hijet van instead. Common Toyota! An electric motor would suit the IQ more than 2 piston rods!

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  • szw (Member) on Oct 16, 2007 at 9:59 am

    looks like dey run out of iq

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  • BigFish (Member) on Oct 16, 2007 at 10:40 am

    Shall be competitor for Smart 2! Look at front lamp, ugly “cat eye”.

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  • ASIMOtypeR (Member) on Oct 16, 2007 at 1:48 pm

    toyota
    lexus
    daihatsu
    scoin
    perodua
    hino
    yamaha
    er..subaru

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  • DtG (Member) on Oct 16, 2007 at 3:43 pm

    the front just makes me think this is designed alongside the lambo reventon…. hahaha…

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  • 90125 (Member) on Oct 16, 2007 at 5:31 pm

    Toyota + Yamaha…small compact..soon ‘small’ will be in fashion…

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  • proton.GL.. (Member) on Oct 16, 2007 at 5:45 pm

    http://www.ti-journal.com/face%204-4-96%201-2a.gif

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  • nmh (Member) on Oct 16, 2007 at 6:45 pm

    Finally a sorrow looking car for a sorrow robot named marvin….remember The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Dont get me wrong though….its cute

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  • unlogic (Member) on Oct 16, 2007 at 7:19 pm

    even the 250cc Kawasaki ZXR250 has 4 cylinder engine!!
    twin cylinder engine in a car will sound like shit and rough

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  • transformer (Member) on Oct 16, 2007 at 9:09 pm

    a smart fortwo hit a concrete barrier at 90km/h, its passenger would never survive…. guess what would this iQ work out ?

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  • BigFish (Member) on Oct 16, 2007 at 11:03 pm

    Sport car is a big boy toy. This car may become girly toy!

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  • mystvearn (Member) on Oct 17, 2007 at 12:05 am

    wait and see how it performs

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  • 90125 (Member) on Oct 17, 2007 at 1:46 am

    pink will be the ideal colour for this IQ…

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  • gogo2 (Member) on Oct 17, 2007 at 1:40 pm

    Look like Naza Sutera.. ;)

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  • nmh (Member) on Oct 17, 2007 at 3:14 pm

    Smarter than Smart…i definately buy if price no object

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  • dzat46 (Member) on Oct 17, 2007 at 3:46 pm

    Toyota should just put an R1 engine….hmmm that be interesting….if twin should colloborate wt Ducati instead..

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