4.5
Pembroke Tenneson,
08 May 2012 15:19
The Toyota RAV4 has been turned into the only all-electric SUV on the market after a heart transplant from Tesla Motors. The RAV4 EV has been given batteries and drivetrain bits from the Silicon Valley start-up to turn Toyota's most popular SUV into an electric-only vehicle with a 100-mile range. Toyota RAV4 EV: how it works A massive 422kg of batteries provide the power for the RAV4 ...
3.5
Tim Pollard,
23 April 2012 03:30
If you want an idea of how important the Beijing motor show has become, get this: Toyota showed 38 production and concept cars in China this week. But two stood out: the Yundong Shuangqing and Dear Qin concept cars. Great names! What on earth is the Toyota Yundong Shuangqing? That's the longer, blue car in our photos here. It's a ...
How hard can it be to drive coast-to-coast across Britain on one tank of fuel, they asked? Not very, we said. So we topped up, left Great Yarmouth on the east coast of England and headed on a road trip to Anglesey on the west coast of Wales. The idea was simple: drive across the UK and splurge all the leftover petrol on ...
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Tim Pollard,
10 April 2012 12:50
Toyota is about to launch the Prius Plug-In hybrid in the UK and today confirmed it'll cost £27,895. Clever tech comes at a price - the regular Prius costs from £21,560. The price of the plug-in Prius hybrid would be even higher without the Government's £5000 grant. Take that incentive away, and the Prius Plug-In's price swells to £32,895. Crikey. ...
4.5
Tim Pollard,
08 March 2012 15:55
Toyota's news at the 2012 Geneva motor show was the world premiere of the FT-Bh small car – a Yaris-sized supermini that's 25% lighter than the existing supermini. The FT-Bh weighs in at 786 kilograms. And if you're wondering about those smoothed-off looks, it's all down to aero. This small car has an admirable 0.235 drag coefficient. The FT-Bh is ...
4.5
Ben Pulman,
10 February 2012 09:00
This is the Toyota FT-Bh show car. Or rather, it’s a sketch of the Toyota FT-Bh, and our first glimpse of a new affordable city car concept that will be unveiled for the first time at the 2012 Geneva motor show in March. Ah, the tried-and-tested PR tease. So what little information has Toyota released about the FT-Bh concept car? ...
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Tim Pollard,
03 February 2012 09:00
Toyota has quashed all the rumours about how much its new GT 86 rear-wheel drive sports car will cost: the price has been confirmed at £24,995 in the UK. Some speculation had suggested the price might soar nearer £30k on account of the unfavourable yen exchange rate. But Toyota GB today confirmed the GT 86 will start at £24,995. Click ...
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Ben Pulman,
25 January 2012 10:30
Toyota has unveiled its new Le Mans challenger, the TS030 Hybrid. The TS030 name designates this car as the successor to the TS010 and TS020 (better known at the GT-One) which competed at Le Mans in the 1990s – TS stands for Toyota Sport. What? This Toyota TS030 is a hybrid racecar? That’s right – and would you expect anything ...
2.5
Marcus Roberts,
23 January 2012 12:10
Toyota has revealed a mainly aesthetic revamp of its bestselling Prius for 2012 - designed to improve ride and handling and usher in new gadgets for a more connected lifestyle. Toyota hopes the 2012 refresh will cement the Prius's popularity; the current generation has notched up sales of more than 20,000 since its UK launch back in 2009.Click here to read CAR's long-term test of the Prius ...
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Ben Pulman,
19 January 2012 12:45
Peugeot has announced that it’s closing its Le Mans and endurance racing programme with immediate effect. The unexpected announcement is a blow to the world-famous French endurance race, as the diesel-powered 908 HDi LMP1s have been the only cars able to challenge Audi’s dominance over the past few years – Peugeot won the Le Mans 24hrs in 2009. On the same ...
