Comments on: Report: Toyota to build Yaris-based hybrid in France

By: moparsalesman1

moparsalesman1 — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:52:48 +0000

Just thing of all the gas money you will save on your way to heaven when you die in this death trap.

By: jdasch1

jdasch1 — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:14:32 +0000

A French built electric platform car. Someone better rethink the “french built” idea again. Why build it in France? Must be some government subsidy going on here right?

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:03:05 +0000

Do they get to see a Toyota hybrid with a stick?

By: mitzo

mitzo — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:27:54 +0000

The Yaris hatch is a cohesive design. Perhaps the best of its size on North American roads.

By: volo

volo — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:06:06 +0000

volvo, yes I like their design, I must admit. Compare a toyota with what Citroën, peugeot, Renault and Fiat do with small cars in europe. Well, now it is better, the yaris is quite OK with her design, but Toyotas from the 90s beginining 2000 were simply ugly.

By: 2WheeledSpeed

2WheeledSpeed — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:58:52 +0000

I agree with Jake, those Europeans have access to some great diesels, no wonder they don’t feel the need to snatch up hybrids like we do.

By: superman

superman — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:56:07 +0000

“the other reason is that their cars are plain dull and ugly”

I suppose you think the volvos and saabs are setting the world on fire, eh

By: volo

volo — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:24:30 +0000

anyway they can only propose gasoline hybrids because toyota diesels are crap. They had many warranty claims due to injector problems. that’s part of the reason why toyota is not successful in europe, the other reason is that their cars are plain dull and ugly.

By: leftwingagenda

leftwingagenda — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:09:54 +0000

probably cost, which drives pretty much everything

By: yarddog82abn

yarddog82abn — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:59:52 +0000

And why not built it in California?

By: JakeK66

JakeK66 — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:57:25 +0000

When you can get 50 mpg and have 250 lbs ft of torque out of a diesel I’d guess the reception for a 100 hp hybrid would be pretty tepid….

By: ASIMO

ASIMO — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:47:29 +0000

The Yaris hatch is the one and only Toyota (strictly [U.S.] Toyota, not Lexus) design that warrants applause. The designers did a fantastic job of giving this small package of steel and plastic just the right proportion of lines, creases and curves to convey a well thought out vehicle design, something actually difficult to achieve in such a small package. Not slabby (not always necessarily a bad thing) and not overwrought.

All other Toyotas… meh to blech.

By: acoom

acoom — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:42:09 +0000

The Auris is not smaller than the Yaris. It is the new name for the Corolla. So actually it slots above the Yaris.

By: Borat

Borat — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:07:32 +0000

Yaris is actually decent looking European/Asian market hatch. I did not have opportunity to drive it, but it looks good (in European setting) and pretty frugal as it is. I reckon there is a market in Europe for hybrids, although Toyota could plucked in the same diesel as in Mini and could have a winner for less coin.