Toyota Media Site: Latest Press Releases

Latest Press Releases

8 May 2008

Prius Ranked Highest Car In J.D. Power and Associates/What Car? 2008 UK Customer Satisfaction Index Study

The Toyota Prius has gained a second J.D. Power and Associates award after emerging as the highest scoring individual model in the 2008 UK Customer Satisfaction Index StudySM, retaining the position it held in 2007.

1 May 2008

Aygo Cool With New Blue Hue

There’s blue, then there is Aygo Blue. This spring Toyota’s award-winning city car has a fresh look with a new dedicated Slate Blue metallic paint finish.

28 April 2008

Take A Back Seat For The Best Show On Wheels

The chance to watch movies or play computer games while on the move has helped banish back-seat boredom for millions of motorists.

24 April 2008

Toyota’s Virtual Crash Test Dummies Help Racecar Safety

The FIA Institute and Toyota have combined technology and expertise to help improve safety in high speed racecar accidents.

11 April 2008

Toyota Unleashes High Power Hilux At CV Show

There are few challenges left for Toyota’s mighty Hilux, a car that has toughed it out in the world’s most extreme environments for decades and which only last year made history by conquering the Arctic to become the first car to drive to the Magnetic North Pole.

3 April 2008

Toyota Prius Joins The Green Crewe

Go Green Car and Van Rental, Britain’s first green car hire company based at Crewe, Cheshire, has taken possession of eight new Toyota Prius hybrid cars boosting their fleet of super environmentally friendly vehicles to 12.

2 April 2008

Auris Soars Into Spring With New SR and TR

Auris is evolving to meet the needs and preferences of even more motorists with two new grades joining the line-up this spring.

31 March 2008

New Appointment At Toyota Fleet

Richard Balshaw has been appointed General Manager Toyota Fleet, replacing Tim Copland, who takes on a new role as General Manager Dealer Development.

14 March 2008

Toyota Seals Record UK Prius Fleet Deal With Sainsbury’s

Toyota has reached agreement to supply Sainsbury’s with Britain’s largest fleet of hybrid power vehicles. The company is to take delivery of 400 Prius models, in a move towards cleaner and greener motoring for its staff. This is the largest ever UK fleet deal for Prius.

4 March 2008

Toyota Unveils Urban Cruiser

Toyota has given its new Urban Cruiser small SUV its European debut at the Geneva motor show, the latest addition to its distinguished 4×4 vehicle heritage. The new model is aimed firmly at the urban all-road market, where European sales have almost doubled since 2002.

4 March 2008

World Premiere Of The New Toyota iQ

Toyota has given the production design of the new iQ its world premiere at the Geneva motor show. First presented as the Concept Car iQ at the Frankfurt motor show last year, the new model will go into production late in 2008 with UK sales scheduled to start in spring 2009.

4 March 2008

That’s Life With A Toyota Prius

As the doyenne of British consumer journalism, there is probably no tougher customer to please than Esther Rantzen. That makes her choice of a Toyota Prius for her personal transport all the more telling.

20 February 2008

Toyota Yaris SR: A Winning Recipe

Take one Yaris. Add highly desirable styling and exclusive equipment features. Price competitively and sell. It is as simple as that. Toyota has comprehensively upgraded the specification of its 1.3 VVT-i and 1.4 D-4D Yaris SR models to create one of the most impressive supermini prospects on the market.

13 February 2008

Small Is Beautiful For Toyota At Geneva

Toyota is thinking big by creating a new generation of small cars designed to address the demands of modern motoring and the preferences of today’s drivers. Two new models will take centre stage at the Geneva motor show.

12 February 2008

Aygo And Diesel Yaris Join Prius As “Freemen of London”

Changes to the Central London Congestion Charge announced today open the way for even more Toyota vehicles to travel in the capital for free. From 27 October, cars in bands A and B for Vehicle Excise Duty – those emitting less than 120g/km of carbon dioxide – will receive a 100 per cent discount.

8 February 2008

Switch To Toyota Computers For CPW

High-quality solutions to computer and IT problems are the speciality of CPW Computing. But now the Needham Market company has also found a way of making a small business fleet more eco-friendly and cheaper to run at the same time – by going all-Toyota.

7 February 2008

Toyota Backs New Sprint Series

What’s the hottest prospect on a race track: a road-spec’ 21st century MR2 Roadster or a fully-tuned and kitted 1990s-vintage Supra?

25 January 2008

Jemca Edgware Road Wins Toyota Business Centre Of The Year Award

Jemca Toyota has been named the overall 2007 Toyota Business Centre of the Year at an award ceremony which took place at The Belfry last week.

23 January 2008

King Of All Roads

The new Land Cruiser V8 replaces the Amazon and is the eighth generation of Toyota’s legendary Land Cruiser large-scale SUV.

11 January 2008

Toyota A-BAT Concept Vehicle

Torrance, CA – Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc., returns to its compact pickup truck roots with its latest concept vehicle A-BAT.

1 January 2008

TMC Annual Report 2008

TMC Annual Report 2008.

1 January 2008

Toyota And Safety 2008

Toyota and Safety 2008.

1 January 2008

Toyota In The World 2008

Toyota in the World 2008.

1 January 2008

Toyota In Europe 2008

A comprehensive overview of Toyota’s activities and operations in Europe.

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