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Latest Press Releases

22 June 2006

All Toyotas Great And Bigsmall

Toyota is refreshing its range this summer with new special edition models that span the motoring spectrum from the ‘baby’ of the family, the Aygo city car, up to the mighty Land Cruiser. And the recently launched Yaris gains a new model too, in the form of the stylish, high value Ion.

19 June 2006

The New 2007 Toyota Avensis

As the flagship of Toyota’s European model range, the Avensis occupies a pivotal position in building awareness of the Toyota brand as a whole.

12 June 2006

A Giant Flag To Drive The Boys To Victory

As flags go, they don’t get much bigger than this. Instead of flying a flag from their cars, workers at the Toyota Burnaston factory in Derbyshire have made one from cars.

9 June 2006

New Avensis Measures Up To Toyota’s Star Of ’66

Two models span 40 years of Toyota in Great Britain

7 June 2006

Worldwide Prius Sales Top 500,000 Mark

Toyota has announced that worldwide cumulative sales of the Toyota Prius, the world’s first mass-produced hybrid vehicle, have passed the half-million mark, with 504,700 units having been sold by the end of April this year.

31 May 2006

Toyota MR2 Roadster TF300: It’s The Final Countdown

The Toyota MR2 Roadster has been the purest expression of Toyota’s sporting spirit through 22 years and three generations.

31 May 2006

Changes To Toyota Delivery Charges

Due to changes in delivery charges caused by rising fuel costs, on the road pricing for all Toyota vehicles has been revised.

25 May 2006

Aygo To Domino’s For Pizza

Domino’s Pizza franchisee Globell Ltd is using six Toyota Aygo hatchbacks to ensure that the food it delivers to pizza-lovers in the Northampton area always arrives piping hot and oven-fresh.

25 May 2006

British-Built Toyota Avensis To Star At Madrid Show

Toyota brings some welcome positive news for the UK’s car manufacturing industry with the unveiling today of its new, British-built 2007 Avensis range at the Madrid Motor Show.

12 May 2006

Atlas Transport Goes Green With Toyota

One of London’s longest-established private-hire companies has joined the city’s green movement by switching part of its fleet to hybrid synergy drive – in the form of 10 Toyota Prius hybrid cars.

10 May 2006

A Verso – But More So

Toyota’s supremely versatile Verso compact MPV adds another dimension to its owner appeal this spring with the launch of the new TR model.

10 May 2006

Triple Crown For Prius

For the third year in succession, the 1.5-litre petrol engine of the Hybrid Synergy Drive has won best 1.4-1.8-litre engine in the International Engine of the Year awards and has also been named ‘Best Fuel Economy’ for its application in the Toyota Prius.

3 May 2006

Toyota Launches Mobility Programme At The Mobility Roadshow 2006

Toyota is leading the motor industry in launching a series of dedicated mobility products for its core model range.

2 May 2006

Toyota Aygo Tops 90 MPG – At Silverstone

Ten laps of a world-famous motor-racing circuit can rarely have yielded a fuel consumption figure of just over 90mpg, but that was the astonishing result produced by a Toyota Aygo 1.4 D-4D diesel hatchback at Silverstone this April.

21 April 2006

Toyota Prius Is A Natural Choice For Wildlife Trust

The head of one of Britain’s regional Wildlife Trusts has swapped his conventional estate car for an environmentally friendly Toyota Prius hybrid vehicle – and he is hoping that his …

7 April 2006

Toyota Hybrids Power Up greentomatocars

The first all-hybrid private-hire operation is underway in London, as a young company sets out to overturn perceptions of minicabs with its eco-friendly Toyota Prius fleet.

6 April 2006

Toyota At The 2006 CV Show

The new Toyota Hilux will be centre stage on the Toyota stand following its introduction in October last year.

31 March 2006

Hybrid or Diesel: Sushi or Snails?

Toyota acknowledges that there are many alternative routes to achieving the ultimate eco-car and it has led the field in pursuing most of them…

8 March 2006

Come In, Eco-One – GLH Pleases The Public With Prius

It was comments from passengers that encouraged London’s longest-established private hire and courier service to start using Toyota Prius cars – and by this summer Greater London Hire should have 32 of the petrol-electric hybrids on its fleet.

3 March 2006

New Yaris Makes Robert A Toyota “Millionaire”

Back in the Swinging Sixties, Toyota made a modest entry into the British car market with just a single model on offer.

28 February 2006

Toyota Lays Firm Foundations At Bullivants

Toyota Hilux Double Cabs are proving a popular user-chooser option with everyone from sales and engineering staff to management at Roger Bullivant Ltd, the UK’s largest foundation engineering company.

28 February 2006

Toyota Unveils Its New Sporting Heroes At Geneva

Sports-themed concepts of three of the newest models in the Toyota range are making their world debut under the spotlights at the Geneva Motor Show this week.

9 February 2006

The New RAV4: Excellence All Round

The Toyota RAV4 was the inspiration for a new market segment for compact SUVs when it was launched in 1994 and has since proved an enduring success, with in excess of 1.8 million sales worldwide.

3 February 2006

Innovation And Design Set The Tone For New Toyota Models At Geneva

The Urban Cruiser is a design exercise by ED2, Toyota’s European design studio, for a futuristic mini SUV.

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