I’m not really sure what to make of this… but here it goes. According to a press release by Toyota UK, Toyota says it will begin offering a new type of front-door glass that is able to cut UV light into the front of the car up to 99% beginning 2011.
The first car that will offer this is the Toyota Vitz/Yaris. Combined with existing UV-cutting windscreens, Toyota says the new combination is able to provide sunburn protection the equivalent to that of wearing gloves while driving.
But when I look at the image above as well as the explanation that goes with it, what I see is a single-piece tempered glass used for door windows with a UV-absorbing film placed on the interior surface. Isn’t that what we’ve been doing all this while by tinting our cars?
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yah great
toyota is….out of idea? they should come out with fun car.
see mini, Citroen DS3, golf, polo, 1 series, Audi A1. and toyota……still not taking handling seriously. hem……what is wrong with them.
a tinted wind screen?
for once we are somehow ‘ahead’? hehe
zzz only using film…i thought they using something like cromax..
if use film 3 years down the road it loses its protection or rather damage
anyway imho if 99% ppl cannot use smart tag lolx
Yes true, the principle is the same. Just that maybe Toyota come out with their own brand for the tint and all the car will be factory-installed.
They wont call it “tint”, they will name it with some name that you hardly can understanding and certainly make you fork out more money.
They wanna profit in tinting industry too !!! By such, charging additional RM5k for “new technology”…
What a full load of crap~~~
totally agree…
good for new buyers…… should have especially in malaysia…
do we have it in vios?…. myvi also ada, so other ‘toy’ cars also should have right?
should make standard on all cars, not only Yaris……
or ‘Vitz’ if u insist, lol~
The cut out profile for side windows only.
If it is true that it is laminated, they might have inserted it between 2 glass sheets used for the front windscreen.
No idea what is so special about their film but if it comes standard with the car, got warranty I guess.
I hope they won’t consider this as a face-lift for the Malaysian market! LOL (like what they did for the avanza and rush)
Toyota fanatic will be so proud of this.. no more sun burn mah… duhhhhhh
aiyo, like this also can become news ahh??? toyota oh toyota……..
is this a face lift by toyota? lol…
*btw this is sarcasm for somebody who dont get it.
this is all new model la! new suoer advanced glass window mar!!! very very the high tech one and best in class!! says the toyota salesman.
not impressive enough….
Yeah, it is a tint. The diff is you didnt see the cutline of the film coz it was stick on the glass b4 the glass installed at the car. Its factory fitted.
If your child play with sharp thing & scratch the film/glass, how to replace? hehe..
About smart tag issue, i think its only block the UV, not reject the Infrared. So, shud be no prob. Just my 2 cents.
It is a tint. The diff is you didnt see the cutline of the film coz it was stick on the glass b4 the glass installed at the car. Its factory fitted.
If your child play with sharp thing & scratch the film/glass, how to replace? hehe..
About smarttag issue, i think its only block the UV, not reject the Infrared. So, shud be no prob. Just my 2 cents..
Old idea new marketing strategy.
This is nonsense. By default, tempered glass already has a very high UV rejection rate, but it doesn’t have a high IR rejection rate. That’s why back in the old days, EEPROMs that need to be “formatted” by UV light have a quartz window and not a glass window – because the UV can’t pass through glass, but it passes through quartz.
Regular tempered glass coupled with regular tint film already provide around 99% UV rejection. It’s the IR rejection that differs between regular tint films and high-end tint films.
Bravo, Toyota, for doing something that is practically pointless.
“Isn’t that what we’ve been doing all this while by tinting our cars?”
Not exactly Paul
Actually the film are sandwich between 2 layers of windscreen glass.
Remember windshield glass is laminated windscreen, where two glass will sandwich a layer of plastic that hold both glass together. This plastic is actually act like tinted film
You just described dual-layer windscreen glass, correct. But the front window glass is exactly as per the image above – single layer with a layer of film on the inside – they specifically said there’s a film.
better than v-kool or 3m?
i tot it was similiar to cromax window…..diu~
Wait… is that tint on the inside or outside?
hahaha..
this is what we call – BS marketing strategy..! sounds very advance.., surely will change the world.., while the fact is – only tinted.. put at factory.. cheh..! cheezy…
unless it comes at no extra charge.. then it is surely a welcomed additional feature from toyota.
If Toyota considers this worthy PR material they are in even deeper trouble than I thought.
users should know that blocking UV and blocking sunlight are two different things. just like lens that we use for spectacles/glasses, there are those that block UV out BUT still everything is bright. (I know this because i worked in an optical shop for two years)
it is the TINT that blocks the sunlight; other things block the UV.
well, u need to learn more.
you can work in hospital but knows nothing about healing ppl right?
yeah right toyota.. (yawn). last minute attempt to fight the koreans perhaps? hehe..
At least they should have done a efficiency comparison test between this and regular tinting methods? Give us SOME reason to think this makes sense?
it’s a marketing ruse, they can’t say we sell tinting film right?
anyways only asia because of the sun are so well informed about tinting films, for overseas markets this might be something new to them
maybe for once we know more than the world?
it depends on which western world ur referring to, if i am not mistaken, in Califonia, cars are required to be tinted due to their weather, this is to reduce CO2 as drivers don’t need to max out their air-cond.
Uh maybe in UK they prefer to have more light in. English weather can be gloomy most part of the year. My wife brought a Pug back from UK after she graduated and it did not have any tinting whatsoever. But that was back in ’95.
Vitz not such a big thing in UK especially when they are up against Fiestas. Now that the UK gov is giving breaks for EVs, they’ve got to do something.
Eh since 2008 the facelifted Myvi already have the UV protection film put on EZi and above model… It has been sold as a marketing point for protecting not only the passengers and also the interior as well by my salesman… :)
what a joke!!! that is really super lame of toyota to get media attention of what is just normal tinted film.
This is same like perodua announcing they are to build the 1st super electronic automated transmission in malaysia- which was just big name for an outdated 4-speed auto.
like father like son. shame on toyota!!! this is all you have come up against the koreans? no wonder toyota is losing sales worldwide. pity toyota fanboys!!!
In Malaysia, Yaris from Toyota is just like Juara from Proton.
Still want to cheat money?
…front windscreen…could it be laminated?…….that might explain the variation for side glass which is much thinner so it has to come with a layer to tint as well.
Anyway, nice to have this type of protection as standard.
it could be different in UK..in Malaysia, what we worry is when we enter car “Why so hot ar???”
For UK, they worry about “hey mate, all these UV rays must have some negative health effect”…haha..
I am not sure about this, but is it true that things like reverse sensors are not something very common in the UK??so, perhaps they are not so particular about these features/gadgets..
LOL.
First, Perodua says they want to make Electronic Automatic Transmission, even shortened it to E-AT to make it sound WOOOOOW… except that it’s only an archaic 4-speed autobox.
Now, Toyota talks about ” front-door glass that is able to cut UV light”… which is only a fancy word for tint?
Guess it runs in the family… treating customers as easy pray to overcharge ridiculously