17 July 2009 - 09:00
Hy’ powered Auris
Toyota, the company that gave hybrids to the masses with the Prius, is expanding its petrol-electric range. From the middle of next year it will build a hybrid version of the Auris, right here in the UK.
That's good news for people with leather sandals, and even better news for the 4,100 workers at Toyota's Burnaston factory in Derbyshire. The plant has churned out more than 2.5 million cars since it opened in 1992 and is the place where the current Avensis is put together.
The Auris hybrid will share the Prius' 1.8-litre petrol engine and 80bhp electric motor. But because it's smaller and a bit lighter, it might squeeze some slightly better economy figures than its bigger brother. So expect better than 72.4mpg and 89g/km C02.
It's been a pleasantly green week for Toyota - just a few days ago, it shipped a load of cars to the US aboard a solar-powered ship, the first of its kind. Rumour has it that the life rafts were powered purely by cosmic gypsy juice. Possibly.
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Can the super-self-righteous eco-brigade please do some research around how the batteries for hybrid and electric cars are produced before purchasing one, you might just save the world.
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Electrics and Hybrids only make sense when the energy from the battery comes from renewable like wind energy or tidal. Otherwise there is really no point.
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Yay, another Toyota hybrid. Woo...............................................
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The solar power ship is a lot more interesting than any toyota!!
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Where do I get a cosmic gypsy juice powered lifeboat?
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Adding a hybrid engine to a Auris really isn't going to improve emissions,since it isn't green. Toyota is much better off facelifting the Auris and improving the engine range. This car is so dull!
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Ladies and gentlemen the car that is going to save earth.
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this is good , very good infact I cant stop typing on how good it is for the present situation!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :P :D
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I love Toyotas. 2000GT was great as was the 1974 Celica GT, but I'd also like them to do something interesting for once TODAY. Like a big Toyota that handles as well as the smaller ones or a car that doesn't look as if somebody sneezed on the design and nobody noticed before feeding it into the cosmic gypsy juice powered 3D printer that all their cars look as if they came out of. Ideal car for me: A Toyota that looks like a Jaguar, handles like a Porsche and costs as much as, well, a Toyota. And screw the green hybrid crap. That's just a marketing stunt. Or a way of sneaking large cars into Red Ken's CCCP Zone free of charge, in which case, hats off.
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Wotski said....."Can the super-self-righteous eco-brigade please do some research around how the batteries for hybrid and electric cars are produced before purchasing one, you might just save the world." Wotski, you are absolutely right. Hit the nail on the head there mate :-)
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well this is proof the ugly prius is a waste of time and that a nice looking car can be made green. take one of these auris hybirds and but on the bumpers and trim from an auris tr (the sports one i believe) and no one will believe that its a hybird. the only problem with these petrol electric hybirds is that they dont give as good economy as a clean diesel eg the peugeot 308 does 90mpg with just a 1.6 engine. and the 308 hybird will have a diesel electric hybird why did that not catch on earlier. for a car like the auris it would be good to get one of the hybirds and have an additional lpg conversion i have heard some people doing it on the lexus hybird for very cheap motoring because an lpg kit on an auris would mean that it produces no emissions on electric and even less on lpg and the fact that lpg is so cheap will make it very cost effective motoring indeeed. however my 1984 mercedes 230e on lpg is not being replaced any time soon
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I love Toyota's, decent well built cars and I do commend them for their efforts. I would also like to see a diesel-hybrid from them since their D4D common rail is a very good engine. But what I want from them is the Sprinter badge, not just a badge but the full Sprinter hardware makeover. That would make the Corolla (Auris) interesting again.
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^ Initial D much?
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(I agree btw)
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To evilkeso: I agree. Import the Sprinter badge. When Toyota was building the car from the future back in 1992 (Sprinter Marino) Europe was busy putting together shoeboxes with wheels. Sadly it's 2009 now and Toyota got stuck somewhere around 1998.
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Mikeado commented on this article
17 July 2009
lol @ gypsy juice. But let's do some TopGear maths - Toyota = Dull. Auris = Boring. Hybrid = Boring (and NOT green). I bet it'll be forgotten about in under a month.
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