Toyota announces a replacement for Aygo
Unlike other brands, Toyota will stay in the A segment, that of small city cars.But he will no longer team up with Citroën and Peugeot.Toyota announces that he will stay in the segment A ...
05/09/2022
Unlike other brands, Toyota will stay in the A segment, that of small city cars.But he won't team up with Citroën and Peugeot.
Toyota announces that he will stay in the A segment in Europe.Segment A is that of small city cars, where the Japanese brand offers Aygo.The manufacturer unveils the first technical information on its next small model in passing.
This will take up the new GA-B base, inaugurated by the fourth generation Yaris, and which will also be used by the Yaris Cross urban SUV.With these three models, Toyota aims for annual production in Europe of more than 500,000 vehicles.
This volume is significant for scale savings and therefore the profitability of the project.This is what allowed Toyota to stay in the A segment, while many manufacturers have thrown the sponge or will soon do it, judging that we can no longer earn money with the little onesvehicles (due in particular to pollution and safety standards).
Opel and Ford already do not offer small city dwellers.This will soon be the case of Citroën and Peugeot, which will classify the C1 and 108 at the end of 2021 without direct follow -up.The French were also associated with Toyota for these models, with a joint venture founded in 2002 and a shared factory in the Czech Republic.Toyota took control of this production site alone, PSA not wishing to continue the adventure.
Another info on the aygo replacement (note that Toyota does not speak of new Aygo in its press release, suggesting a name change): it will have a heat engine.It is therefore not yet a question of making a transition to electric, as is the case for the Renault Twingo or the Volkswagen Up.Toyota stresses that the petrol engine keeps customer preferences in this category, where the purchase price criterion is important.And the brand wanted to keep an access offer to its range.