LAST AUTO NEWS – TOYOTA'S PARIS TRIO – TOYOTA IN PARIS
Last Auto account – Toyota's Paris leash – Toyota in Paris Japanese maker unveils a leash of new metal at the Paris Motor Show, including the new Avensis saloon.
Making three apple debuts at this year’s Paris Motorshow looks like a able move by Toyota.
The Japanese giant’s angle featured a final assembly accessible adaptation of its diminutive iQ city-limits runabout, as able-bodied as the all-new third bearing Avensis alehouse and a B-segment mini MPV crossover alleged the Urban Cruiser.
The iQ will be accessible in two trim levels – iQ and iQ2 – if it hits the streets in 2009. A CVT automated manual is on action from launch, while stop-start technology will appear some time next year.
The Avensis, meanwhile, is a absolutely new car and ahead concealed in the metal. Side on, its administration shares a lot with Lexus’s IS and looks like it has a far added attitude than its predecessors. Toyota’s Senior Vice President of Europe, Andrea Formica, explained the Avensis has been engineered to accept a ‘European’ feel, with a activating active acquaintance and actual low CO2 outputs -152g/km for the abject petrol and 134g/km for the entry-level diesel. The car will go on auction in January 2009 and battling Vauxhall’s Insignia.
The Urban Cruiser will appear with four-wheel drive and a 1.4 D-4D agent engine if it goes on auction in May 2009. Two-wheel drive and petrol engines with accepted stop-start technology will follow.
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