Toyota News

New RAV4 and Yaris models are lined up for 2008, ensuring Toyota customers can enjoy some true New Year bargains.

Toyota Manufacturing UK (TMUK) will today (14 December) celebrate 15 years of support to Britain’s motor industry with The Rt Hon John Hutton MP, Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, at its Burnaston Vehicle Plant in Derbyshire.

There is no more exclusive Aygo than the new Platinum, a version of Toyota’s award-winning city car that is brimful of premium quality features. But while the specification is high, the price tag marks the model down as an ideal New Year bargain.

The Mayor of the Hertfordshire town of Stevenage has broken with tradition – by switching to hybrid synergy drive for his new official car. Councillor Graham Clark has started using a Toyota Prius to fulfil his official engagements.

Toyota has unveiled two new robots, a “Mobility Robot” and a “Violin-playing Robot”, which could become very useful at Christmas in years to come.

“The great thing with running Toyotas is that I don’t get any phone calls from drivers!” says the S Webb & Sons (Distributors) Ltd director who introduced the brand to his company.

Toyota has unveiled a massive driving simulator, designed to safely analyse driving characteristics and so develop improved active safety technology.

The Toyota Supra takes on a new challenge this month: the ultimate Japanese GT car and icon of the Sony Playstation Gran Turismo game is swapping the racetrack and (virtual) mean streets for a fund-raising foray into rural France in the 2007 Hackett Beaujolais Run.

More than a quarter of a million children have gained practical life-saving skills through the three-year British Red Cross Don’t Be a Bystander campaign, supported by Toyota. The project, which concludes this week, has also provided more than half a million UK youngsters aged nine to 13 with key information on roadside first aid.

TV personality Lisa Rogers reckons that the new private car service Carmic Cars offers the cleanest, greenest way of getting round London in 2007 by using only low-emission Toyota Prius Cars. With her second baby on the way, the Scrapheap Challenge presenter has applauded the idea of taxis that are not merely carbon-neutral but “carbon-negative”.