Toyota RAV4 EV

Toyota unveiled the U.S. model RAV4 EV, the world's first compact SUV with electric drive. Drive your car has been developed jointly with the Californian company Tesla Motors, Inc..

AV4 EV is based on the traditional version of compact SUV Toyota. The car was equipped with an electric drive unit Tesla, reaching to the actual conditions of a range of about 160 km (100 miles).

The vehicle will go on sale in California in the late summer of this year. Toyota plans to sell over the next three years in California about 2 600 units RAV4 EV. Price of the car is 49 800 USD.

The car is the only electric SUV on the market. His performance, dynamics, and the possibility of the load are equal or even exceed the capabilities of the petrol version of the RAV4 V6. In sport mode the car accelerates from 0 to 96 km / h (60 mi / h) in 7 seconds. RAV4 EV powertrain is covered by the 8-year limited warranty.

RAV4 EV will be manufactured in a factory Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, Inc.. (TMMC) in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada.

Toyota Venza

Toyota Venza is a mid-size crossover is offered primarily in North America. At a car dealership in New York, a Japanese manufacturer unveiled a refreshed version of the Venza in 2013.

The manufacturer decided not to significant changes, but we can see that this model facelift. Vehicle's front fascia is now more pronounced due to the modified radiator grille, bumper przestylizowanemu and new headlamps with integrated daytime running lights made ​​with LED technology.

There are also new mirror housings with integrated turn signals and new design 19-inch alloy wheels. Customers who opt to purchase refreshed Toyota Venza will also be able to choose one of three new exterior colors: Attitude Black, Cypress Pearl and Cosmic Gray Mica.

In the interior largely unchanged - only attention the new steering wheel. Toyota in model year 2013 I decided to offer a slightly richer equipment already in the basic version of the car. As standard you will receive an electrically controlled front seats, dual zone air conditioning and a six-speaker audio system.

Refreshed Venza will be offered with two petrol engines to choose from:

• 2.7-liter 4-cylinder engine that generates 184 hp and 246 Nm of torque,
• 3.5-liter V6 engine that generates 272 hp and 333 Nm of torque.

Drive through the six-speed automatic transmission is transmitted to the front axle, but for demanding clients also prepared an optional all-wheel drive.

Top 10 world most popular car models in 2011

Car manufacturers are competing not only with the largest number of cars sold, but also that their individual models were in the top positions of individual segments in different markets around the world. When, however, collect all the results of global car sales, it is shown that models deserve to be where the most popular cars in the world.

Here are the top 10 most popular car models of 2011:

1. Toyota Corolla - 1 141 709 pcs 
2. Ford Focus - 882 551 pcs 
3. Volkswagen Golf - 864 452 pcs 
4. Volkswagen Polo - 788 789 pcs
5. Ford Fiesta - 767 465 pcs
6. Hyundai Elantra - 751 967 pcs
7. Wuling Sunshine - 731 689 pcs
8. Chevrolet Cruze - 704 691 pcs
9. Ford F-series - 698 319 pcs
10. Volkswagen Jetta - 695 159 pcs

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Toyota GT86

Toyota officially unveiled the model GT86, formerly known as the Toyota FT-86 Concept. Car was produced in cooperation with Subaru, which divides not only the drive and motor, but also the vast majority of items.

GT86 Toyota model name comes from the legendary Toyota Corolla AE-86. Although the car looks like a Toyota Celica Generation VII produced by 2006. Also promises to be a worthy successor.

Toyota Car GT86 is driven by the rear wheels and under the hood resides a 2-liter boxer with 200 hp and maximum torque of 205 Nm, available until at 6 600 rev. / Min. However, there is the version with four-wheel drive.

Inside you will find 4 seats, but as it happens in czteromiejscowych coupe can not ride in the back. Toyota engineers have almost reached the ideal weight distribution between the axles, amounting to 53:47, and low center of gravity, which were obtained including thanks to the flat boxer engine.

Toyota TS030

Toyota officially presented its new weapon for the racetrack. It is equipped with a hybrid model TS030.

The new work of Toyota Motorsport GmbH, prepared to fight in the LMP1 racing series, has received a carbon fiber chassis and drive gasoline engine based on the 3.4 V8 and an additional unit of electricity.


We know that the hybrid powertrain is called R-THS (Toyota Hybrid System - Racing), but do not know the details about it. So far Toyota has betrayed the drive component suppliers and the fact that the element of the set is a system of braking energy odzyskujący.

TS030 will have its racing debut May 5 at 6-hour competition at Spa-Francorchamps.

Toyota NS4

Toyota NS4 is a hybrid plug-in that extends the level of security offered in the future.

Toyota NS4 has an advanced drive system with reduced, lighter components. The engines use less fuel, better performance and more effective use of batteries as an energy source. The advantages should be added the short-time loading of cells.

NS4 concept presents a new direction in styling from the Japanese manufacturer. The front grill has a trapezoidal shape, the lower part forms a low-placed spoiler. Back of the car looks too futuristic, and the lights take the form of stripes occurring on the side of the body.

The multimedia system was developed in collaboration with the following brands: Microsoft, Intel, and Salesforce. Knowledge and experience of these companies developed high-tech solution, the functionality of the device ahead of its competition.

HMI consists of a touch-screen display draws on the style of the smartphones. The whole was designed to be as little as distract the driver from driving. The system has features that make learning and habits of the driver's commands.

The concept will find a number of systems whose purpose is to prevent collisions, include: improved PCS, ADB - that is, variable beam and BSM - monitoring blind spots. PCS makes sure that the driver accidentally changed lanes and protects against impact on pedestrian or another vehicle.

During the collision with a pedestrian hood of the car rises, so as to reduce head injuries a person deducted.

Auto has a special glass windows, improved visibility by coating the surface with fluorine. This allows faster water flows under the influence of air pressure. By contrast, from the inside coating is applied to not protect against evaporation. Their inner layer blocks 99% UVA and UVB rays.

In NS4 abandoned traditional mirrors and their functions taken over by the camera. The driver observes what is happening behind the vehicle on the displays placed on the dashboard, thus has a much wider field of view.

This concept shows how very important for Toyota is the safety of drivers, passengers and other road users.

Toyota NS4 is to be on the market in 2015.

Toyota A-BAT

Thanks to the huge popularity of pick-up in the U.S. Toyota attempted to create a futuristic vision of such a vehicle. Toyota A-BAT was to end with the image pick-up as a primitive, a truck with an absurd combustion. Its four-cylinder gasoline engine combined with hybrid HSD provide fuel at a very low level, while frame-free unibody construction helps maintain a relatively small mass, in spite of fairly heavy battery.

Much attention was paid to maintaining the road - as the buyer pick-up rarely leave the tarmac, the A-BAT is carried out as a car, while being practical car pick-up. If current production pick-up lots of space wasted on long bonnet - A-BAT in the engine compartment is small and compact, so you can be on a small length to create a large interior. While the loading platform is equipped with many amenities: backlight, built-in flashlight, or 110 V power socket A-BAT is a typical crossover, combining the best features of a passenger car, pickup truck and minivan, addressed to young customers.

You are only conceptual version. We do not know when (and if at all) this car will be available.

Toyota Hi-CT

A small, very comfortable, fashionable and environmentally friendly city car. The inspiration was a way of thinking and lifestyle of today's youth, and this is addressed to young Toyota Hi-CT.

This car looks like a locomotive on wheels.

To drive the electric motor is connected to the battery pack. Charging cells is mediated by external power sources. The drive is transmitted to the front wheels.

Of course, the car of the future is no place for a conventional drive, because under the hood (if at all so it can be called) Toyota Hi-CT for the latest hybrid technology, plug-in, or with batteries loaded from an external source of electricity. This means that placed under the floor of the battery pack can be recharged in a home network such as electricity.

The classic section includes a gasoline engine with a capacity of 1.5 liters.

Position the engine battery makes the driver's seat is positioned slightly higher, giving it better visibility. This super car has a 100-volt outlet, which can connect any electrical equipment, whether electronic, both while driving and the parking lot.

Rack located on the car so you can just remove. The glass roof provides occupants with plenty of natural light.

Toyota FCV-R

Stylized futuristic car, the Prius looks like the announcement of a rather distant future, a hydrogen-powered fuel cell. This on-board power plant was built on the specially designed, layered floor, so that did not undermine passenger space or luggage. There, space has been created for compressed hydrogen. Gas at a pressure up to 70 MPa (700 bar) is sufficient to overcome the distance 435 miles (700 km) between tankowaniami.

With the cell the FCV-R has a much greater load than the contemporary meaning of electric cars charged from the wall, and yet, in fact, the four-car Toyota also is the current. Except that the same it generates, exhaling into the atmosphere only harmless water vapor.

The steering wheel is more like shuttlecock, but in a production model of such extravagance is not expected

Toyota FCV-R will be available for sale in 2015

Toyota Yaris Hybrid

Toyota unveiled the first hybrid varieties of technical parameters of the model Yaris, which makes its world premiere in a production version will be at the Geneva Motor Show.

100-horsepower Yaris Hybrid powertrain is configured with an automatic transmission and can overcome longer distances using only the electric motor. The hybrid system has been optimized to work in the most efficient manner, with priority use of the electric motor before combustion.

Toyota's own measurements carried out on European roads is best illustrated by the possibility Yaris Hybrid. The test data shows that an average of 66 percent. time and 58 percent. Yaris Hybrid beat the distance using only the electric motor, and therefore consumes no fuel and emits no fumes.

Yaris Hybrid will be the next step in the dissemination of Toyota's hybrid technology in Europe. With an attractive price, the smallest hybrid car company to compete with other brands of vehicles equipped with diesel engines. According to the assurances of the brand, Yaris Hybrid will be the most accessible hybrid car in Europe.

Google Car

Google has patented an unmanned vehicle

Technology could be used in the organization of tourist trips, or to send the broken car repair services. Vehicle while driving combines artificial intelligence with Google maps and camera team. Apparently works much more quickly respond to events on the road.

Google patented a system that auto switches to automatic mode - Transitioning a Mixed-Mode Vehicle to Autonomous Mode.

Just turn on one button and the car drives itself. Auto system is equipped with cameras and sensors determine its position relative to the road and other vehicles. Thanks to "see" their environment and can adapt to it.

Cars passed the tests successfully. As revealed by the Google car drove so far over 250 thousand. km, of which 1.6 thousand. km in the automatic mode (Here lies the problem, rather - according to my data in auto test models have overcome far greater distances). Each car's automatic supervised driving techniques.

Test models, which uses the design is the Toyota Prius and Audi TT.

Toyota MTRC

The car was designed for the future, combining three very important areas for Toyota - participation in motor sports, four-wheel drive and advanced technology.

The project took a new vehicle body to the European Tour Toyota ED2. Men of designers decided to use when creating the car parts that accompany the young people in contemporary everyday life - sports, fashion, video games, cell phones and the internet. Equivalents of each of these concepts can be found in the model Motor Triathlon Race Car (MTRC).

The name of the vehicle suggests that the conceptual Toyota will have the task to check in three different disciplines - as is the case in a real triathlon - in the off-road, on the racetrack and on the streets. The driving force behind the car are the four electric power units located in each of the wheels.

About this car will know more after the car exhibition in Geneva (March 4).

Toyota FT-Bh

At the forthcoming great strides Geneva Motor Show Toyota will present its latest concept, which bears a code FT-Bh. For the moment we have only little teaser and a handful of speaking about this model.

The car has to be a compact urban vehicle, but as can be seen on the above visualization - this is not another small hatchback and asexual. Silhouette of a vehicle seems low, aggressive and sleek, and so completely different from today's popular compact, urban wozidełek.

What's more - the car will be able to boast a little CO2 to the atmosphere and relatively low fuel consumption thanks to the hybrid powertrain. Model FT-BH has to be in reasonable price range, so that more people could afford it. Development costs are in fact be relatively small, because the Japanese engineers apply known and proven solutions.

Toyota wants to prove that it is impossible to create economically and environmentally friendly city car, the price will not be felled to its knees. Hybrid for the masses? We'll see.