DieselDrive Magazine

With the Toyota Prius being the brand’s ticket to environmentally-friendly hybrid motoring, purveyors of cheaper hybrid vehicles haven’t had much choice below the R300 000 mark. The Honda Jazz Hybrid and Insight have been the only real options available, apart from the impractical smart fortwo mhd models, but with their integrated electric drive systems they aren’t [...]

To talk about a car like the new Toyota Yaris in isolation is quite an easy task. However, when you look at the B-segment in its entirety, the wide variety of vehicles vying for your attention and your money muddles the picture considerable, something that unfortunately doesn’t bode well for the Yaris. But let’s not [...]

I was really looking forward to spending some time with Toyota’s FJ Cruiser again. After all, this would be the first time we saw each other since Toyota launched it to the local market in the last quarter of 2011 and, having attended the launch, I was not only impressed but actually liked it as [...]

Back in April this year, Toyota South Africa proudly announced the arrival of their new ultra-small city car – the Aygo, an eventual replacement for the Tazz which disappeared some years ago. Designed on a platform shared with the Peugeot 107 and Citroën C1 in a cost-saving exercise by the three manufacturers, the “new” Aygo [...]

The current generation Prius has been in Toyota South Africa’s stable for a couple years now and, as the motoring world just wants to go greener every month, I finally got my hands on the entry-level Advanced model for this test. Don’t worry, I’m not going to bore you with how this hybrid’s carbon footprint [...]

I’ve had an epiphany. Something has happened to me, something I never thought ever would, and it hasn’t just happened to me – many of my friends, colleagues and acquaintances are have experienced it too. For the first time ever, there is a cool Toyota on the market. Don’t get me wrong – there have [...]

Toyota’s Yaris hatchback is most definitely not new to our market. In fact, this buzzy little city runabout has been flying out of dealer showrooms since launch in 2005 and, at the end of July this year, total hatchback sales racked up to a mammoth 87 699 units since then. So why, on the eve of [...]