#2020 Toyota Yaris Uk

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GR summit reached: Toyota Exec rules-out extra Gazoo Racing fashions

Toyota has reportedly put a lid on strategies of extra fashions receiving the Gazoo Racing (GR) remedy after confirming that it’s going to produce no different fashions bar the present vary consisting of the GR Yaris, GR Corolla, GR86 and GR Supra. Regardless of reviews earlier this yr alleging the doable introduction of sedan-based GR mannequin, Chief Engineer for the GR86, Yasunori Suezawa, advised Australia’s drive.com.au that it received’t be commissioning one other GR mannequin now that the GR86 has premiered. GR Yaris has smash-hit globally. “There’s none left truly. For the GR [performance brand], mainly this [the GR86] is the final,” Suezawa stated through an interpreter. Regardless of asserting the enlargement of the GR Sport division, which falls under the GR and flagship GRMN designations within the Gazoo Racing construction, Suezawa’s feedback seemingly spells not solely the tip for a sensible GR mannequin, but additionally the a lot reported on GR Hilux predicted to have rivalled the Ford Ranger Raptor. ALSO READ: Toyota clarifies guide Supra and GR86 no-show at Kyalami Pageant of Motoring Supposedly set to have derived motivation from a turbocharged petrol engine or the three.3-litre turbodiesel V6 from the Land Cruiser that allegedly would have pumped-out 230kW/687Nm, the obvious cancellation successfully confirms feedback made again in Could by Toyota’s Gentle Business Automobiles Supervisor for the UK, Gareth Matthews, who advised Auto Specific that no GR mannequin would sit above the Hilux GR Sport at any stage. “The GR Sport has the appears to be like that clients need whereas nonetheless having the proper payload weight, so we’re assembly the calls for of efficiency followers there,” Matthews advised the publication. GR Corolla is at the moment being investigated for South Africa. As effectively the GR Hilux, which might have debuted not lengthy after the usual Hilux and its twin, the at the moment being examined all-new Tacoma, a return of the MR2 seems cut-and-shut after being branded “not a precedence” by Toyota’s European Vice-President of Gross sales, Matt Harrison, in 2020. The identical seemingly additionally applies to the still-born Celica regardless of patents for the moniker’s return having surfaced in the USA 5 years in the past and in Australia final yr. Upgraded 285 kW Supra, in addition to the six-speed guide spinoff, will each come to South Africa subsequent yr. As is thought by now, Toyota South Africa will complement the Corolla Cross GR Sport with a localised model of the Hilux GR Sport that produces 165kW/550Nm from the two.8 GD-6 turbodiesel engine. Scheduled to have premiered alongside the GR86 on the Kyalami Pageant of Motoring two months in the past, the GR Supra line-up will solely be broadened subsequent yr with the inclusion of the six-speed guide gearbox and the upgraded 285kW/500Nm 3.0-litre B58 straight-six engine, whereas the GR86 itself seems on the playing cards for a November 2022 unveiling. GR86 has been tipped to turn into obtainable in South Africa in November. The supply of the remaining GR fashions are simply as clear-cut with the GR Yaris now on-sale after receiving a rationalised mannequin replace three months in the past, whereas the GR Corolla stays “underneath investigation” and unlikely to turn into a actuality this yr. Originally published at Irvine News HQ

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2020 Toyota Yaris Spy Shots, Redesign, Hybrid

2020 Toyota Yaris Spy Shots, Redesign, Hybrid

2020 Toyota Yaris Spy Shots, Redesign, Hybrid – This 2020 Toyota Yariswill be Toyota’s tiniest pricy design, yet, it does not appear in an exact category. Originally designed to extend past requirements within the constrained roadways and even crammed city parts within France along with Germany, that arranges mobility and even competence irrespective of other things. That will do not necessarily…

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Testing, testing... Autocar‘s top new car reviews of 2020

Whether it's a new trim level, an addition to the engine line-up, a complete overhaul or an entirely new model, if it's new we want to drive it. Against the odds, you might say, 2020 has been a particularly busy year for the Autocar reviews desk, with everything from £300,000 SUVs to hybrid superminis passing under our microscope.It's only been on sale since the start of 2020 but already the Puma is well on its way up the bestsellers list. Clearly, See: bluedriver lsb2 review. Ford's pilfering of a hallowed 1990s nameplate for a Fiesta-based crossover was a canny marketing decision, and you know what? Put the curvy old coupé next to its modern namesake on a particularly bendy bit of road, and the taller car won't embarrass itself half as badly as you might expect. Plus, it's got a hidden storage box in the boot and fuel-saving mild hybrid tech. No wonder it only just missed out on a five-star verdict.First there was the Beetle, then came the Golf and now we have this: an all-electric family hatchback that begins Volkswagen's third age but blends elements of the two that came before. Thus, it's a sensibly sized five-door family hatchback (there's your Golf) with a motor at the rear (there's your Beetle) and a charging port on its rear flank (there's your future...). Important, for sure, then. But does it truly move the game along?You can hardly say we've not given the new Defender a good going-over. Fully aware of how crucial the model's successful revival was - not just to Land Rover, but to its hordes of loyal fans - we tested its off-road mettle in Namibia before returning to the UK to try multiple variants on our battered tarmac, stage a vital off-road showdown with its key rivals and then conduct a full road test. The long and short of it? Forget its more rounded edges and higher list price, this is a Land Rover Defender that thoroughly deserves to wear its badge."You're looking at the quickest car in the world." If that sentence doesn't hook you in, we don't know what will. But this is no gratuitously gushing opening salvo; the 641bhp Turbo S variant of the latest Porsche 911 is truly in a class of its own on a point-to-point dash across the twisties, and our tester reckons whatever was joining you for the journey would stay firmly in the rear-view mirror. Whether it's also "the best supercar" in the world is another matter entirely, however...The most potent series-production Golf was always going to cause a stir, and when it promises not just enhanced straight-line performance over its predecessor, but also to excel dynamically, you know it's going to be something special. Our first stint at the helm failed to disappoint, and chances are when it touches down on UK roads in the next few weeks, the Honda Civic Type R will be quaking in its boots.A brand with the esteemed sporting reputation of Porsche was never going to have an easy time launching its first electric car. The original Cayenne, diesel Panamera and four-cylinder-powered 718 were each controversial in their own right, but pale in comparison to the prospect of a 2.3-tonne, four-door EV from Stuttgart - with a Turbo badge on the back, no less. Just as well then, that the Taycan - even in ludicrously quick 751bhp Turbo S guise - manages to conceal the heft of its electric innards to the extent that it can behave like a true sports car that doesn't need the "...and it's electric" caveat. Our 100th Porsche road test and the first EV to land five stars: a milestone indeed.Not one to rest on its laurels, Toyota has completely reinvented its best-selling Yaris supermini. The fourth-generation car doesn't just mark a radical design departure from its predecessor, but also offers more space, improved efficiency and - perhaps most surprisingly - boosted driver appeal. It's one of the priciest cars in its segment courtesy of its hybrid-only powertrain, but with character and charm high on its list of traits, it's a welcome return to form for one of our long-time favourite urban runarounds.Ten years ago, if you'd have said a company called Tesla would be battling another company called Polestar for executive EV supremacy, we'd have told you to go and have a lie...

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Toyota GR Yaris 2020 UK review

The newToyota GR Yarishas actually been coming for even longer than most of us may realise.While this car's had an extensively previewed gestation, it's the first ground-up performance car thatToyotahas developed ‘all on its own' in some twenty years. By which is meant ‘without the help of another dedicated car-maker,' of course. Because believe me, to have made a hot hatchback this good, See: Launch CReader CRP123X. Toyota must have had quite a lot of help from some very clever people who been spending a lot of weekends with messers Makinen, Meeke, Tanak and Latvala.So, now that we've driven it – extensively, on a mix of UK roads and on track, and in its most alluringly specialized mechanical specification, we should add – we can at last confirm what matters most: that the hubbub of anticipation might actually have undersold the GR Yaris. This is a wonderfully exciting, amazingly capable and strangely evocative drivers'car, and a very rare and special hot hatchback indeed.First, we'd better define precisely why it exists. If the prospect of this 257bhp, four-wheel drive supermini takes you back, it's not by accident. The GR Yaris is undoubtedly the closest thing we've seen in some thirty years to a downsized rally homologation special; a modern MG Metro 6R4 or Peugeot 205 Turbo 16, it may seem. It certainly has much of the unmistakable visual presence of those cars, with its dramatically swollen wheelarches and air intakes – and the association will do the Toyota no harm whatsoever.But that's not actually what it is at all. Rather than commissioning a very limited production run of road cars, built out-of-house, in order to legitimize a World Rally Championship campaign, Toyota did the reverse when it sewed the seed for this car back in 2015. It invested in a new motorsport division (Gazoo Racing) and a top-level rallying program with the specific intention of applying what it might learn into better series-production performance carsthat it would make itself– and which might therefore be able to influence production Toyotas more widely for years afterwards.In an attempt to radically shift the market perception of the Toyota brand, then, boss Akio Toyoda would accept nothing less than such a bold, radical – and undoubtedly expensive – strategy; which actually makes this car a fascinating anti-homologation car - of a sort. If you disqualifythe GR Supraproduced two years ago as many do because of its sharedBMWunderpinnings and thelast-gen Yaris GRMNas the appetite-testing exercise it so clearly was, the GR Yaris is the first opportunity that Toyota has had to show the world how seriously it intends to take its mission. It is not an opportunity squandered.The very idea of this car promises big. It is a compact, supermini-sized package with an engine and drivetrain that lifts it way out of the hot supermini niche, and actually place it on a par withan Audi S3orVW Golf Rfor power-to-weight ratio. It has a unique chassis that's a hybrid of Toyota's GA-B and –C platforms, and that's been strengthened and reinforced all over the place. It has lightweight aluminium and carbonfibre-composite panels, and all-independent suspension and aerodynamics that have been developed with the help of designers and engineers from Toyota's WRC team.It also has a manual gearbox; nothing less than the most powerful three-cylinder engine in any production vehicle in the world; and the first proprietary four-wheel drive system that Toyota has developed for a road car in two decades, which can be set for a rear-biased torque distributionandaugmented with proper ‘Torsen' limited-slip differentials for both axles as you prefer. If that doesn't excite you, folks? Well, I'm not sure any modern hot hatchback will.Then again, even if it doesn't, I'm pretty sure the driving experience would. The GR Yaris is of a performance breed that you might have unconsciously consigned to history. It's redolent of a time before seeking a thrill out on the public road became so socially toxic. When our roads were quieter, and the affordable performance cars we had to enjoy on them – from Delta Integrales to fast Imprezas and Lancer Evos – wore dynamic qualities like...

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Hot Yaris' 257bhp Inline-Three To Power Golf GTI-Rivalling GR Corolla

A Toyota GR Corolla using the enormously power 1.6-litre triple found in the new Yaris hot hatch will reportedly land in the UK for 2023

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Hot Toyota Yaris GR to help WRC bid

John McIlroy 2017-10-24 12:10 Toyota’s next hot Yaris will be a full-production model to help boost the maker’s success in the World Rally Championship Toyota is planning a hot homologation special of its next Yaris that will bring a high-performance version of the car to a wider customer base than the current GRMN model - and boost the pace of the manufacturer’s World Rally Championship car. The current Yaris GRMN is expected to trickle through to the UK in tiny numbers - with no more than 100 examples expected and at a price of more than £26,000. However, the man in charge of Toyota’s high-performance division, the Gazoo Racing Company, has told Auto Express that a successor is already planned – and that it will be more affordable and available in larger numbers. • Best hot hatches 2017 That’s because the next hot Yaris will be a homologation special, designed to offer advantages to Gazoo Racing’s World Rally team when its engineers start to develop the car for competition. To comply with rallying’s rules, at least 25,000 examples will have to be produced in one year – so the car, which is likely to be badged Yaris GR instead of the ‘full-house’ GRMN, will need to be offered with a price tag of around £20,000. Shigeki Tomoyama, Senior Manager with responsibility for Gazoo Racing, said: “We know our current situation and we believe that we need to change the platform for the rally car to be even more competitive. So for the next generation of rally Yaris we will prepare a homologation road car. We have to commit to producing 25,000 of them in one year, so it won’t be a limited edition like GRMN.” Tomoyama declined to provide details on what would be changed, although he admitted: “There will be some differences in the suspension pick-up points, because suspension travel is a big factor in WRC. “Also we would be lighter in some areas, because that could allow our rally team to move weight around”. Most rally cars are below the minimum weight, and the teams are able to position ballast strategically for better handling. “This is the sort of thing we are looking at,” Tomoyama told us. “But in the meantime, we’re focused on winning the championship with the current Yaris next year.” The existing Yaris is reaching the end of its first season in the WRC, and it’s likely to continue competing until the end of 2019. So Tomayama’s comments also suggest that Toyota is already preparing to extend its stay beyond its current three-year commitment; a new generation of the rally car in 2020 would also tie up with what’s likely to be a replacement for the current road car, which was introduced in 2013. The facelifted car was launched this year. The move could prove a controversial one in world rallying, where the current rules are designed to dissuade manufacturers from committing large sums of money to ‘homologation specials’. Relatively few examples of this vehicle have been created since the World Rally Car rules were introduced in 1997 - although Peugeot produced a limited run of its 206 with longer bumpers, just so it could comply with the WRC’s regulation on minimum length. Would you buy a hot version of the Toyota Yaris? Let us know below!

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/toyota/yaris/101461/hot-toyota-yaris-gr-to-help-wrc-bid

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2020 Toyota Yaris Hatchback, redesign, Hybrid

2020 Toyota Yaris Hatchback, redesign, Hybrid

2020 Toyota Yaris Hatchback, redesign, Hybrid – With lower than 2,000 marketed models, the marketplace performance in the Toyota Yaris hatchback may be identified as weak. Just, by way of example, the organisation available 25,000 sedans. In any event, this may not be creating the Japanese business delighted. For that, the modern 2020 Toyota Yariscan get the company-change, in line with the…

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Hot Toyota Yaris GR to help WRC bid

John McIlroy 2017-10-24 12:10 Toyota’s next hot Yaris will be a full-production model to help boost the maker’s success in the World Rally Championship Toyota is planning a hot homologation special of its next Yaris that will bring a high-performance version of the car to a wider customer base than the current GRMN model - and boost the pace of the manufacturer’s World Rally Championship car. The current Yaris GRMN is expected to trickle through to the UK in tiny numbers - with no more than 100 examples expected and at a price of more than £26,000. However, the man in charge of Toyota’s high-performance division, the Gazoo Racing Company, has told Auto Express that a successor is already planned – and that it will be more affordable and available in larger numbers. • Best hot hatches 2017 That’s because the next hot Yaris will be a homologation special, designed to offer advantages to Gazoo Racing’s World Rally team when its engineers start to develop the car for competition. To comply with rallying’s rules, at least 25,000 examples will have to be produced in one year – so the car, which is likely to be badged Yaris GR instead of the ‘full-house’ GRMN, will need to be offered with a price tag of around £20,000. Shigeki Tomoyama, Senior Manager with responsibility for Gazoo Racing, said: “We know our current situation and we believe that we need to change the platform for the rally car to be even more competitive. So for the next generation of rally Yaris we will prepare a homologation road car. We have to commit to producing 25,000 of them in one year, so it won’t be a limited edition like GRMN.” Tomoyama declined to provide details on what would be changed, although he admitted: “There will be some differences in the suspension pick-up points, because suspension travel is a big factor in WRC. “Also we would be lighter in some areas, because that could allow our rally team to move weight around”. Most rally cars are below the minimum weight, and the teams are able to position ballast strategically for better handling. “This is the sort of thing we are looking at,” Tomoyama told us. “But in the meantime, we’re focused on winning the championship with the current Yaris next year.” The existing Yaris is reaching the end of its first season in the WRC, and it’s likely to continue competing until the end of 2019. So Tomayama’s comments also suggest that Toyota is already preparing to extend its stay beyond its current three-year commitment; a new generation of the rally car in 2020 would also tie up with what’s likely to be a replacement for the current road car, which was introduced in 2013. The facelifted car was launched this year. The move could prove a controversial one in world rallying, where the current rules are designed to dissuade manufacturers from committing large sums of money to ‘homologation specials’. Relatively few examples of this vehicle have been created since the World Rally Car rules were introduced in 1997 - although Peugeot produced a limited run of its 206 with longer bumpers, just so it could comply with the WRC’s regulation on minimum length. Would you buy a hot version of the Toyota Yaris? Let us know below!

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/toyota/yaris/101461/hot-toyota-yaris-gr-to-help-wrc-bid

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New 2020 Toyota Yaris seen testing with mini-Corolla design Toyota will renew its ageing Yaris next year to bring the supermini into line with the rest of its range, and new Nürburgring spy shots give a revealing glimpse of the final design. Sporting a similar attention-drawing 'disguise' as the recently launched Supra, the 2020 Yaris can be seen to adopt the wider, squatter stance of the latest Corolla. Swollen wheel arches seem to give it much more visual aggression than the eight-year-old outgoing car, and the profile looks to be less top-heavy, too. That's a clear indication of the car's TNGA platform architecture - modular underpinnings that are also shared with the Corolla, Camry and C-HR.  Another prototype with a different camo and wheel design was spotted at the 'Ring at the same time, suggesting the Japanese firm is trialling two different chassis set-ups. It is likely that the one in the red camo is a GR Sport variant, Toyota's new trim designation for models with a sportier tune to bridge the gap between mainstream variants and the full-fat GRMN flagship.  Also on test was a hybrid variant, determined because of the legally mandated yellow sticker that must be installed on all electrified test vehicles.  Toyota's UK sales are overwhelmingly biased towards hybrid models, so a petrol-electric variant should continue to be the volume seller. It's possible that the 2020 Yaris will also come with a straight petrol version, however, more suited to sporting variants.  If the brand's latest range additions are

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2020 Toyota Auris Review, Price, Engine, Redesign

2020 Toyota Auris Review, Price, Engine, Redesign

The holdout would go to an overview as. Finally, there is certainly gossip of your new 2020 Toyota Auris model’s inauguration. This future Auris product probably will icon the starting of a brand-new mixture of hatchbacks, which is suggesting reaching the rugs right after the 2017 time interval of time.

2020 TOYOTA AURIS ENGINE

This new 2020 Toyota Auris will probably be run with a 1.6-liter…

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Společnost Toyota Motor Manufacturing France (dále jen TMMF) ve svém výrobním závodu ve Valenciennes na severu Francie zahájila výrobu nové generace Toyoty Yaris. Čtvrtá generace nejprodávanějšího modelu Toyota v Evropě je prvním kompaktním vozem postaveným na podvozkové platformě TNGA (Toyota New Global Architecture) GA-B, která vozu propůjčuje lepší dynamické schopnosti a jízdní vlastnosti, ovladatelnost a bezpečnost, stejně tak jako poutavý design.

TMMF se tímto stala čtvrtým závodem v Evropě, který zahájil výrobu vozidel založených na platformě TNGA – tento krok již učinila Toyota Motor Manufacturing Turkey (modely Toyota C-HR a Corolla Sedan), Toyota Motor Manufacturing UK v Burnastonu (Corolla Hatchback a Corolla Touring Sports) a Toyota Motor Russia (Camry a RAV4 pro vybrané trhy). Uvedená investice dokládá strategii společnosti TME lokalizovat výrobu a maximálně využívat vlastní výrobní kapacity. Strategie místní výroby automobilky Toyota se stejnou měrou týká i hlavních komponent vozidel: nový Yaris je vybaven nejnovější generací motoru 1,5 litru TNGA, který se rovněž vyrábí v Evropě – v závodu Toyota Motor Manufacturing Poland.

Další investice a druhý model na cestě

Do výroby vozidel postavených na platformě TNGA bylo zapotřebí investovat dalších 300 milionů eur, což je ekvivalent cca poloviny původních investic do závodu TMMF. Všechny výrobní úseky prošly modernizací zahrnující nové vybavení a technologie ve prospěch vyšší ergonomie a produktivity. Šlo například o zásadní rozšíření haly na výrobu plastů, která se zvětšila o dalších 3500 m² kvůli instalaci nových vstřikovacích a lakovacích linek, což nyní umožňuje vnitropodnikovou výrobu nových plastových dílů. Předpokládá se, že počet stálých pracovníků TMMF do konce roku 2020 dosáhne 3600 lidí.

Komentuje Luciano Biondo, prezident a generální ředitel TMMF: „Zahájení výroby čtvrté generace modelu Yaris je prvním krokem k našemu cíli 300 tisíc ročně vyrobených vozů. Se zbrusu novým kompaktním SUV Yaris Cross, který by v polovině roku 2021 měl být druhým modelem na našich výrobních linkách, jsme na nejlepší cestě těchto cílů dosáhnout. Na podporu výroby modelu Yaris Cross připadá investice dalších 100 milionů eur.“

První uplatnění filozofie TNGA v segmentu kompaktních vozů

Toyota Yaris je klíčem k úspěšnému evropskému příběhu automobilky Toyota. Tradičně se těší oblibě zákazníků a skvělé pověsti vozu schopného přinášet stále další inovace. V roce 2019 představoval Yaris přes 20 % celkových evropských prodejů značky Toyota (224 368 vozidel).

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Zbrusu nový Yaris, navržený pro evropské zákazníky a vyráběný v Evropě (stejně jako první generace), díky podvozkové platformě TNGA GA-B přináší zcela nové zhuštěné proporce evokující připravenost vozu vyrazit kupředu, koncepci karoserie velkého-malého vozu s prostorným interiérem i přes kompaktní vnější rozměry, stejně tak jako vylepšenou jízdní dynamiku.

Nejnovější čtvrtá generace hybridního systému pohonu nabízí delší jízdu v režimu EV, více než 20% snížení emisí CO2 a spotřeby paliva oproti současné generaci1 a současně i agilnější odezvu a ještě lepší jízdní vlastnosti. Vůz je kromě toho navržen tak, aby se stal celosvětově nejbezpečnějším kompaktním vozem – za tímto účelem používá špičkové systémy aktivní i pasivní bezpečnosti. Jedná se např. o bezpečnostní paket Toyota Safety Sense (TSS), tedy sestavu technologií aktivní bezpečnosti s cílem napomoci předcházet nehodám nebo zmírňovat jejich následky za nejrůznějších dopravních situací, dále např. celosvětově první centrální airbag v segmentu kompaktních vozů.

Příspěvek Toyota zahájila ve Francii výrobu nového modelu Yaris pochází z auto-mania.cz

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These are challenging times, so what better way to relax than with some Jazz.  I did just that this week at the Berkshire launch of the fourth-generation Honda Jazz compact city car — powered by a nifty hybrid electric-petrol system. This was the first UK coronavirus-compliant car launch under strict social distancing and safety measures coinciding with showrooms re-opening. Birth of the cool: Honda’s new Jazz variant, the Crosstar mini SUV has integrated roof rails and 16 in silver and black alloy wheels The Crosstar accelerates from rest to 62 mph in 9.9 seconds, has a top speed of 107 mph, but will still manage 58.9 mpg and CO2 emissions of 110g/km Since launch nearly two decades ago in 2001, more than 406,000 Jazz models have been sold in the UK (including 17,000 last year) out of 7.5million globally. A rival to the Toyota Yaris, Ford Fiesta and VW Polo, it adopts technology pioneered in the all-electric ‘Honda-e’ and is the first of six new ‘electrified’ Honda models due by 2022. For the first time, there’s a Crosstar variant with a reduced size SUV-style that is more flexible, funky and practical than the standard version.  Visibility in the new Honda hatchback is much improved, thanks to a wider windscreen and much thinner pillars. Sound-deadening improvements mean it’s also 10 per cent quieter than before.  Visibility in the new Honda hatchback is much improved, thanks to a wider windscreen and much thinner pillars This is my favourite. It rides higher than the standard Jazz, has integrated roof rails and 16 in silver and black alloy wheels. Mine came in fetching ‘Surf Blue’. The 109 hp hybrid system combines a 1.5 litre petrol engine with two compact electric motors.  Jazz Crosstar EX  Price: £22,635 (£23,185 with metallic paint) (Jazz hatchback range starts from £18,995 for the base level SE) Seats: 4/5 On sale: Now Length: 4,090mm Width: 1,725mm Height: 1,566mm Ground clearance: 144.2mm Type: Petrol-electric hybrid. Propulsion: 1.5 litre petrol engine linked to 2 electric motors. Power: 109horse-power (HP) 0-62mph: 9.9 seconds Top speed: 107mph CO2 emissions: 110g/km Boot capacity (seats up): 298 litres Boot capacity (seats down): 1,199 litres It can run in hybrid drive, pure electric mode and engine drive and can move seamlessly through all. The smart, contemporary interior has pleasant, soft-touch materials and an uncluttered dashboard. Comfortable front seats dispense with springs in favour of a slat system to reduce fatigue and relieve back pain. There’s also more legroom in the back. Clever flexible rear ‘magic seats’ fold down to increase load- lugging space fourfold from 298 litres — more than enough for a modest shopping trip — up to an impressive 1,199 litres. The brake pedal positon has been changed to optimise the foot-angle. To help taller drivers the steering wheel is 2-degrees more upright.  Occupants are protected by 10 airbags – including a new front-centre bag to reduce the impact of front passengers’ heads and bodies colliding. Whiplash-mitigating front headrests are fitted.   A smart-phone app allows owners to keep in touch with their car when away from it – including tracking its movement and location via GPS satellite and giving you an alert if it exceeds a set distance or ‘geo-fence’ while someone else – whether off-spring or a partner – is driving.  It will also alert you if the car’s secutity alarm is activated.  The standard hatchback accelerates from rest to 62 mph in 9.4 seconds up to a top speed of 108 mph, but offers pocketfriendly fuel economy of 62.8 mpg with CO2 emissions of 102g/km. The standard hatchback accelerates from rest to 62 mph in 9.4 seconds up to a top speed of 108 mph, but offers pocketfriendly fuel economy of 62.8 mpg with CO2 emissions of 102g/km The fractionally longer, wider, higher Crosstar accelerates from rest to 62 mph in 9.9 seconds, has a top speed of 107 mph, but will still manage 58.9 mpg and CO2 emissions of 110g/km. Standard prices from £18,995, rise to £20,185 for the SR and £21,385 for the EX variants. The Crosstar, from £22,635, is available only in top EX trim.  BMW 4-series promises a great knees-up Wondering if the sleek new BMW 4- Series Coupe is fast? Here’s a clue.  It has knee pads on the centre console to help drivers cope with its ‘sporty driving style’. And with its large-framed kidney-shaped BMW grille exuding brash bling, you certainly won’t miss it out on the road.  Hold tight: The sleek new BMW 4- Series Coupe has knee pads on the centre console to help drivers cope with its ‘sporty driving style’ New mild hybrid technology features on the flagship motorsport-inspired allwheel M440i xDrive Coupe version costing £55,875.  It goes from rest to 62 mph in just 4.5 seconds, right up to 155 mph.  That’s thanks to a 3 litre 374 hp six- cylinder in-line petrol engine with 48v electric motor and eight-speed automatic transmission.  Yet it manages about 40 mpg with CO2 emissions of 155-163g/km. Prices from £39,870 for October deliveries. Kia Picanto gets a high tech makeover KIA’S spicy Picanto just got tastier with a series of new upgrades, telematics and safety features added.  To improve cornering and braking, it has a range of electronic stability controls. There should be lower emissions from its re- engineered 1 litre and 1.2 litre engines.  Expect prices from £10,000 with higher-spec models closer to £13,000. Design tweaks are evolutionary, not revolutionary with a more purposeful look and sharper lines.  Customers have a choice of ten vibrant paint finishes and a range of customised interiors including one in lime green.  It goes on sale in the UK and Europe this autumn with the Korean car firm’s seven-year, 100,000-mile warranty as standard.  Car sales crashed by 89 per cent in May to their lowest since 1952 with just 20,247 sold compared to 183,725 a year ago, according to latest figures. SAVE MONEY ON MOTORING Some links in this article may be affiliate links. If you click on them we may earn a small commission. That helps us fund This Is Money, and keep it free to use. We do not write articles to promote products. We do not allow any commercial relationship to affect our editorial independence. 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Top 10 Cars Coming in 2021

2020 has been a turbulent year all around the world. For many the global onset of covid-19 has confined us to our homes and eliminated many of the journeys we do on a daily basis! For many, the arrival of a new year, reduced lockdown conditions and a new series of marvellous automotive machines is like music to their ears. Let’s see what kind of exciting new models we will have to choose from in 2021.

1. Alfa Romeo Tonale

Built as a smaller counterpart to the Stelvio, the Tonale will compete with the Range Rover Evoque. The striking lines, bold grille design and a smart plug-in hybrid option make this a serious contender for the SUV category.

2. Tesla Cybertruck

One of the more controversial new car designs revealed online, the Cybertruck combines possibly the edgiest exterior design of any SUV/pickup truck ever with the unique and ground-breaking EV technology that Tesla is known for. As they say, it will offer “better” utility than a truck with more performance than a sports car.

3. BMW i4

We only have concept images to go from so far, but the i4 should be with us sometime in 2021. This all-electric mid-size saloon car will be a foil to EV competitor Tesla’s Model 3. The company is claiming that it’ll deliver a whopping 523hp and an impressive 373-mile range.

4. Dacia Spring

Anyone who thought an EV would always mean a big price tag are being proven wrong by Dacia. Their EV crossover is expected to be the long-awaited answer to the ever-present problem of how to make electric truly affordable.

5. Nissan Qashqai

Nissan are delivering an upgraded Qashqai in 2021 featuring a facelift, new plug-in hybrid option, and new drivetrain options. It’s not an all-new model, but you’ll likely feel the difference.

6. Fiat 500

It’s all-new and all-electric. No hybrid mid-step for Fiat, they are abandoning traditional engines completely. The EV build brings a few design changes, but you can expect to recognize this iconic mainstay of Fiat’s range even in its new form.

7. Mazda MX-30

Where its competitors like BMW and Tesla are continuing to boast their large single-charge range, Mazda is playing a different card. The new MX-30 has a 35.5kWh battery and only 130 miles of range. They say it’s enough for most people, and a lighter battery will mean the car is less cumbersome to drive.

8. Hyundai i20 N

Anyone who thought the existing i20 supermini didn’t come with enough kick will be pleased with this model. Buyers can expect as high as 200hp and 0-60 in just 7 seconds. There are details still to be confirmed, but the i20 N promises to be a major power upgrade.

9. Toyota Yaris Cross

Toyota are taking their Yaris name into the SUV crossover category in 2021, designed to compete with the likes of Nissan Juke. It’ll be built on the same foundations as the Yaris you know and love, but expect some major size, height and other upgrades to enjoy.

10. Nissan Ariya

The Qashqai has been a top seller in the UK, and the Ariya brings us an all-electric counterpart to the Qashqai. We don’t have all the details right now, but it looks as though the Japanese auto giant is looking to reinforce its top SUV bracket with new and exciting additions.

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DEFENDERS 2020 on the way to the Baltics

Stryker of 2nd Cavalry Regiment of the U.S. Army caught fire on the road in Poland. In the military vehicle were two people who were not injured in a fire.

This accident with the U.S. military in Poland is not the first. So, in March 2019, two people were hospitalized after a hard collision of three American cars. The incident occurred between the towns of Brzesko and Novy Sacz in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in the south of the country.

In addition, in February 2019, a minibus with seven U.S. troops turned over in Lower Silesia. As a result, the vehicle was seriously damaged, and six soldiers needed hospitalization.

Last year an American Stryker armored personnel carrier crashed into a tree in northeastern Poland. The military transport column was moving along the state highway. At one point, one of the armored personnel carriers drove into a moat and crashed into a tree. As a result, two soldiers were injured. According to witnesses, a U.S. Army soldier behaved strangely after the accident. Perhaps he was drunk.

The Baltic region is preparing to accept the large-scale exercises “Defender 2020”, and such cases, unfortunately, will be repeated again and again.

Today all of NATO military maneuvers are associated with increased danger to the population of the host country. From year to year the leadership of the alliance increases the number of NATO exercises in the Baltic countries and every year we see such incidents.

We suggest recalling the main “successes” of our defenders:

In the summer of 2014, the Mayor of Ventspils Aivars Lembergs sent a message to the past Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance, Anders Fog Rasmussen, about the behavior of NATO seafarers in his city. Lembergs said that the foreign military behave “as invaders who do not recognize the sovereignty and laws of Latvia.”

“NATO sailors in Ventspils behaved like a pig, ignored the laws of Latvia and the rules of self-government. Having drunk, they urinated in public places and on shop windows, they vomited, publicly consumed alcohol, which is not allowed. They also picked flowers from flower beds to give them to prostitutes,” said the mayor of Ventspils.

In the summer of 2015, a Toyota Yaris car running by an American soldier collided with a Mitsubishi Lancer car on the Riga-Vezlejtsen road. Five people were injured, including well-known race car driver Vasily Gryazin. The fault in the accident was completely on the side of the driver from the USA, but the culprit was allowed to quietly leave Latvia. The case on this occasion was transferred to the prosecutor’s office a year later, in June 2016.

In February 2016, drunken American soldiers crushed a water park in the Lithuanian resort town of Druskininkai. After drinking a large amount of alcohol, 20 U.S. servicemen had fun at the local water park. In the building of the sports complex they loudly rustled, grimaced, broke the decorative wall, and also pestered the staff of the water park and solicited employees of the entertainment complex. The pool workers called the police, however, according to the established Baltic tradition, they were not brought to criminal responsibility.

The most resonant incident involving U.S. soldiers was the desecration of the Lithuanian state flag. In April 2016, U.S. soldiers tore the flag of the Republic of Lithuania from the prosecutor’s office building in Klaipeda and outraged it. The incident became known only a month later.

Lithuanian authorities classified information after they found out who exactly committed the act of vandalism.

Flag desecration was not reported either in the local police report or in the national police report of the Police Department. Since in Lithuania it is impossible to hide any incident, law enforcement agencies were forced to justify that they did not disseminate information about the incident, since the government ordered it to be classified. None of the American soldiers who have outraged the flag of Lithuania incurred responsibility.

In May 2016 in Riga, the taxi driver left his car and went to drink coffee. When he returned, he saw a rumpled hood, a mutilated roof, a broken door, a man dancing on a car and a crowd of loudly laughing people around. Police detained hooligans. Since in Latvia it is forbidden to prosecute “defenders” from the international battalions of the North Atlantic Alliance under the law, drunken military were released and no one suffered responsibility for the crushed car.

One of the famous scandals with the participation of the NATO military was a fight that staged drunken German soldiers in the Lithuanian city of Rukla. The drunk dispute quickly turned into a fight, as a result of which one of the servicemen was hospitalized.

Such fights occur in the Baltic States all the time. In November 2016, drunken British soldiers beat local residents in McDonalds in Riga. A soldier from the UK who started the fight hastily left Latvia to avoid criminal liability for beating the Latvian Axel Aizkalns. The British press, according to the already worked out scheme, immediately linked the incident with the “hand of Moscow”.

In February 2017, five drunken Czech soldiers fought in Klaipeda, in June four drunken German soldiers beat up in Jonava, a month later drunken Dutch soldiers staged a fight over a bill in a restaurant. All the robbers eventually went home: Lithuanian police detained them, but each time they let them go. Lithuania and other Baltic countries do not have the right to judge NATO soldiers for crimes committed in the Baltic territories.

In September 2017, residents of the Adazhi village near Riga complained about the mountains of rubbish left behind by the NATO military stationed at the local military base. Adazhi residents find jars, plastic bottles, used condoms and packs of army rations near the site.

On June 7, 2018, four armored personnel carriers of the U.S. Army, Stryker, collided in a major road accident in the Prienai district. 13 U.S. troops sought medical assistance.

Another accident happened on the night of June 9 near the town of Kazlu-Ruda: the Stryker armored personnel carrier drove off the road and crashed into a tree.

Next – another accident: not far from the town of Pabrade, an army SUV with two military men turned over.

With great joy we can say that none of the civilians was injured. However, this is only an exception to the rule.

All these incidents are hidden from the public, because these military criminals go unpunished and have no problems with the law. NATO soldiers in Baltic states are doing what they want and no one can stop them.

By increasing the number of exercises in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, the NATO leadership is putting at risk the populations of these countries, their women and children. But if disaster happens, NATO soldiers will just fly away, and the inhabitants of Lithuania or Latvia will be left face to face with the consequences.

As long as the ruling elite of the Baltic countries continues to eat out of the U.S. hands and will allow for gigantic military maneuvers, people with fear of war will always live in the Baltic lands.

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Three Toyotas Recognized Best Hybrid Cars

Three Toyotas Recognized Best Hybrid Cars

A trio of hybrid Toyota vehicles – the Corolla, Yaris and Aygo – received the 2020 What Car? Awards.

The award ceremony took place in London on January 14, 2020.

Toyota Corolla

The Toyota Corolla built in hatchback and Touring Sports form in the UK, took the “Best Hybrid Car” title from the British automotive journal What Car?

The Corolla got the highest marks for reliability,…