Toyota has confirmed plans to resume its inexpensive metropolis automobile providing in Europe, though it stopped wanting confirming whether or not it can retain the Aygo identify.
The brand new mannequin will maintain prices down by utilizing a variation of the Yaris supermini’s GA-B platform with completely non-electrified engines, so is prone to be priced in keeping with the present Aygo – from round £12,500. It’s going to additionally prioritise inside house and utility as a part of its give attention to the city mobility market.
A cutaway rendering of the brand new mannequin’s bodyshell offers little in the best way of clues as to its ultimate type, however earlier spy pictures of what’s believed to be the next-gen metropolis automobile recommend its styling will draw closely on the Yaris, however retain a number of the Aygo’s attribute cues.
The entry-level mannequin will probably be introduced into line with its strong-selling supermini sibling with swollen rear wheel arches and a sizeable entrance grille, however Aygo emblems together with a cloth retractable roof, upright brake gentle clusters and wheels pushed proper into the corners of the physique will probably be carried over.
Nonetheless, it appears the next-gen Aygo will sport a refined journey peak enhance – and sure a protecting physique equipment – in an effort to steal gross sales from the massively common compact crossover phase. Hyundai yesterday revealed a jacked-up tackle its i20 supermini, the brand new Bayon, and Audi gave its entry-level supermini the same therapy to create the A1 Citycarver in 2019.
Given the packaging constraints of an A-segment bodyshell and its give attention to affordability, Toyota’s new metropolis automobile is unlikely to observe the bigger Yaris Cross SUV in providing four-wheel-drive as an choice, regardless of its 4×4-inspired design cues. The Yaris’ entry-level 1.0-litre three-cylinder petrol engine is prone to be supplied, as is a alternative between a five-speed handbook gearbox and a CVT computerized.
Toyota Europe boss Johan van Zyl confirmed in 2019 {that a} new Aygo was being developed in Belgium and will probably be assembled on the identical plant as the present automobile within the Czech Republic. Toyota is one in all just a few producers to decide to the combustion-powered metropolis automobile phase, with rivals together with Volkswagen and Ford withdrawing their same-sized choices from sale in gentle of more and more stringent emissions laws.
The Toyota Aygo’s mechanically an identical Citroën C1 and Peugeot 108 siblings, for instance, aren’t in line for revival on the finish of their present lifecycle, however the recognition of Toyota’s hybrid fashions – together with the Prius, Corolla and RAV4 – implies that it is comfortably assembly its EU emissions goal and may afford to introduce a small combustion-only mannequin.
The Japanese model will take full management of the C1/108/Aygo manufacturing facility in Kolín, the Czech Republic.
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