The new Toyota Aygo X won’t be shared with Peugeot and Citroen

A few months ago, Toyota showed us the Aygo X concept, pictured above. “The aim of this project was to reimagine the A-segment,” said its design chief at the time, suggesting that this would be an all-new kind of city car. One a little more SUV-esque, it’d seem.

In November, we’ll see the finished thing. The Aygo has been a mainstay of titchy affordable cars since its 2005 arrival, those early versions filled with innovative cost- and weight-saving solutions. Some were small – using one piece of string to suspend the parcel shelf rather than two – while others were a little bigger. Such as sharing engineering and production with Citroen and Peugeot, whose C1 and 107/108 were non-identical twins to the Aygo.

But no more. Toyota is going it alone with the new Aygo X – it’s keeping the name of the concept, as well as its chunkier aesthetic – spinning its new entry-level car from the same platform as the latest Yaris.

That’s more likely to mean ‘light, simple and potentially hybrid’ than ‘another rally-rep hot hatch’, but that’s cool – for those who don’t need infinite cornering g or knockout styling, the latest normal, unGazoo’d Yaris is pretty damn good.

“The Aygo X development team studied current and future lifestyles in urban and suburban environments in Europe to deliver a confident, compact crossover that is unique in the small car segment,” we’re told.

Excited?