15 Oct 2013, 09:54 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The Toyota iQ city car was first shown at the March 2008 Geneva Auto Show, later in October getting on sale in Japan and in January 2009 in Europe.
Its standard 1-liter three-cylinder gasoline en...
2 Oct 2013, 10:19 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The manual gearbox is slowly dying, as drivers today prefer the commodity of an automatic for the daily city driving. And commodity is not the only reason for why the manual shifter is no longer an ...
27 Sep 2013, 16:22 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Want to pass MOTs with no worries each time? Buy Japanese vehicles, like Toyota or Honda.
Latest studies from TootCompare on data provided by Vehicle Operator and Services Agency (VOSA) are clear...
27 Sep 2013, 14:21 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The most expensive version of the Toyota iQ you could get, for around €35,000, as an Aston Martin Cygnet is reportedly exiting production after just three years on the market.
The Aston Mart...
12 Sep 2013, 14:59 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The workers in Pleasanton, California, have the privilege to test out the new DASH carsharing program recently started by City CarShare in cooperation with Toyota, which provided the vehicles in dis...
19 Jul 2013, 09:16 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / What makes a good city car? Practicality, low running costs, fuel efficiency, safety? Well, yes, but today’s people are not satisfied only with a metal box on wheels like the Citroen 2CV.
B...
17 Jun 2013, 16:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The automotive design has evolved a lot in the past 100 years or so, starting from the old carriage shape in the 1900’s to rounded rocket shapes of the 60’s to bold rectangle designs of ...
20 May 2013, 14:47 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Coffee and driving may describe a motorist’s perfect morning. Feeling the hot black bean juice aroma and then going places in your machine even gave car clubs a reason to organize more meeting...
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Andrei Ursu / Anticipated by the iQ Concept presented at Frankfurt last year, the new city minicar from Toyota family is set to be a revolutionary solution for urban traffic. Even if it can be properly described ...
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Alex Tudorache / Record braking Car Of the Year award goes to: the tiniest car ever made (not an actual fact)Japan's COTY jury gave the IQ a perfect ten after it conquered all of its jurors' hearts. The IQ...
25 Jul 2012, 13:54 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Despite Toyota saying that they would not be bringing the all-electric iQ EV to China, a recent post on carnewschina.com comes to contradict that statement.
The manufacturer’s official pla...
17 Jul 2012, 14:34 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Scion recently announced the pricing for the 2013 model year iQ and xD, with the two receiving a richer list of standard equipment, but also coming with a slight pricing increase.
The 2013 Scion ...
28 Jun 2012, 14:39 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Consumer Reports recently got its hands on the Toyota-based Scion iQ, with the city car receiving a low score in the review. The little Scion only managed to gather 29 points, with Consumer Reports ...
1 May 2012, 15:57 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Both Scion and the PlayStation handheld are things we’d call “not as good as they used to be. That’s going to change for the automaker with the introduction of the FR-S sportscar. ...
4 Apr 2012, 15:03 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / We’ve seen a lot of crazy stuff over the years, and Scion has never shied away from making crazy commercials, but the latest ones for the iQ city car top everything.
A promotional campaign ...
18 Jan 2011, 07:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The excitement caused last weekend by the Tokyo Auto Salon, the premiere after market and tuning show in Japan, is slowly beginning to fade away, but this doesn't mean there aren't still s...
22 Nov 2010, 14:38 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The fact that Toyota is slowly moving towards electric vehicles is not new, mostly because the partnership between the Japanese carmaker and Tesla Motors will give birth to an electric RAV4. This ti...
4 Nov 2010, 13:29 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / Toyota today announced a voluntary recall of almost 136,000 compact cars in Japan and Europe. The cars are recalled on account of a steering problem, the latest in a series of problems that have dim...
22 Oct 2010, 09:21 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The British division of Toyota announced today its iQ city car will be exempt from the central London congestion charge from 4 January 2011, presenting a potential saving total of more than GBP2,500...
29 Sep 2010, 07:02 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The British division of Toyota announced today it has enhanced its small four-seater city car for 2011, with both styling and engine tweaks having been applied to the iQ. While the exterior appearan...