To been green in India doesn’t come cheap. Toyota just launched its world renouned Prius Hybrid at the Delhi expo 2010. It will be available for sale from March with a price tag of Rs. 26.55lakhs. Toyota’s Indian wing has ordered for 200 Prius from Japan which would arrive as CBUs causing the 110% increase in price. It would be the 3-Generation Prius which would be on sale in India.
Though there may be a million other hybrid fishes in the ocean, Prius still is the salmon everyone wants. It beats the second best Hybrid car sales with a huge difference and there is no Hollywood celebrity who doesn’t own a Prius. It is the first mass produced Hybrid and sales has crossed over 1.5 million.
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Toyota unveiled its two concept compacts for India today at the Delhi Auto Expo. These two though are concepts right now can very well be made into production models with minor changes and soon would be at a Toyota Dealer new you. The sedan version gets a 1.5L petrol and the Hatchback a 1.2L petrol. With the Etios Toyota finally makes it into the Indian small car segment.
Just a day before its official unveiling, some one took off the covering cloth and a another one took some snaps and we have here the first images of Toyota’s two new compact concepts which will be made into production versions and launched in India first and from here globally.
As known earlier from the Tokyo Auto Show , Toyota has had these two concepts ready for the Delhi Expo for some time. A week back Toyota started flaunting with a teaser video of the sedan version of the Etios. click through to check that out and few more spy shots
The updated 2010 smaller Land Cruiser, the Prado arrives in India at an ex-showroom Delhi price of Rs. 52.4 lakhs. It comes with an in-line 4 cylinder diesel engine with a capacity of 3litres, which along with the turbocharger gives a power output of 174.2bhp. It comes with all the mandatory safety, luxury and off-road assist features you would expect from a 50lakh SUV. You can check them all out here at the Toyota India website.
Sure the car fulfills everything you would expect from a premium SUV. It is safe as a tank, does off-roading well and can take you from metros to metros. In fact it does its job better than any other SUV in the market and the make quality, well its a is Toyota, but at a price of 52lakhs it is still twice its worth. I for one wouldn’t mind paying twice the worth of a car if it’s a fiat 500 or a Jaguar xj or anything which is that iconic but for a dull looking Prado, I don’t think so.
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Toyota seems to have got the upper hand in the upcoming Delhi Auto Expo with an assault of 14 machines. We have managed to figure out what they are from various sources ranging from Official press releases to mumblings of company executives.
The single most important car to be revealed during the 2010 Delhi expo is Toyota’s Global Compact concept car codenamed EFC800L. The reason why it is the most important car is that it has managed to stay off all cameras. The word on the street is that this might be a rebadged Daihatsu Sirion on the basis that a Sirion shipped in from San Mateo, California was spotted in Calcutta a couple of days back. But this is highly unlikely as Toyota has ruled out the Daihatsu Indian entry officially and Toyota execs quotes that this is very much a new car developed for India and other emerging markets.
The only bit of information available on the net about this mystery car is that it will have a 1.2L petrol and 1.3L diesel engine variants and will cost roughly 5lakh rupees. this being concrete, a loose bit of inside info suggests that the car is based on the IQ chassis with a bit more of front and rear over hang but that’s just a voice in the wind.
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The Tokyo Auto Expo hasn’t give much to India car-wise but News wise it has been a gold mine and the latest dig has provided us with this. Toyota’s officials slipped it out to our Indian journalists that Toyota Kirloskar Motors (TKM) has plans of launching a smaller Multi Utility Vehicle in India which would be placed under Innova.
The word ends there, but it is not hard to imagine which one of Toyota’s already existing MUV will be launched in India. All we have to do to crack this one is look at a similar Toyota Market to ours, Indonesia. In Thailand Toyota has Avanza MUV which is placed below Innova. If launched in India the Avanza will cost between 5-7Lakh Rupees.
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