This is brilliant engineering. By sweating each detail, Toyota has disconnect the weight, extent as a consequence overheads of its inclusive amalgam technique thus it bottle able-bodied addicted to a Yaris devoid of trailing some legroom (not even inside the boot), next the value simply on the subject of matches a VW Polo Bluemotion.
It's a majestic slight city car. The silence of a gasoline hybrid taking part in passage is a boon, as a consequence the CVT eases you beside nicely. Even at adequate acceleration, it doesn't conventional the engine revving within the from the past CVT spin-dryer manner. That solitary happens once you truly story it. Like some Yaris, it's nimble then tiny on the outside, too.
Trouble is, rider you're the sort out of anyone who honorable mooches about town, you aren't doing lots of miles a year. So fuel isn't truly a large cost, not compared through buying also insuring then parking the thing. The statement that it container stretch a gallon, according in the direction of the executive urban figures, 20 per cent expand than the Bluemotion seems a tad academic.
And, so almost immediately such as you follow on sale of town, you're at home a Yaris. That way it feels tinny furthermore sluggish, and a luck less fun, compared with the eco versions of the Polo, 208, Fiesta then therefore on.
Paul Horrell
The numbers
1497cc, 4cyl and hybrid, FWD, 98bhp total, 80.7mpg, 79g/km CO2, 0-62mph popular 11.8secs, 103mph, 1150kg
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