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.
Back in the Swinging Sixties, Toyota made a modest entry into the British car market with just a single model on offer.
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.
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.
The diverse virtues of the Toyota Verso have been recognised with the Best Compact MPV title in the 2006 What Car? awards. The Verso T3 2.2 D-4D 140 model emerged the winner in a category representing one of the most hard-fought segments of the UK car market.
Toyota’s pioneering work in developing and implementing environmentally friendly hybrid and diesel technologies has been rewarded with the 2006 Green Award from What Car? magazine.
Aygo, the Top Gear car of the year, will now go even further for your money with the launch of a new 1.4-litre diesel engine.
Toyota is introducing a series of new design and equipment features to take its multi-award winning Prius into the New Year.
The first generation Yaris has been a top performer for Toyota, its sales rising every year from launch in 1999 to the point where it accounts for one in every four of the brand’s models sold in Europe.
In 1999 the head of the UK’s leading independent wine importer switched from an 18mpg executive car to the 65mpg Prius, reckoning the potential savings in fuel, tax, insurance combined with the exemption from the London congestion charge would save him £5000 a year….he was not wrong, and it’s got even better!
All too often the move into a new year provokes a mood of self denial and a determination to shed pounds and shun booze.
The Aygo is not only one of the best value machines on the market, it’s every bit as brilliant as a supercar that’s almost 120 times more expensive to buy. That’s the opinion of BBC Top Gear magazine …
Toyota kicked off the festive season by celebrating production of the 500,000th vehicle manufactured at its plant in Adapazari, Turkey.
