The Toyota Etios small sedan concept will be unveiled at the Delhi Auto Expo (World’s largest auto show) scheduled to begin next week. Toyota will also showcase the hatchback version of the Etios at the show and both the vehicles will go into production at the end of 2010.
The Etios series would be produced first in India and then across the world. Codenamed EFC (Economical Family Car) it has been in development for the last few years in Japan. Through Etios, Toyota is trying to establish a better footprint in emerging markets like China, India, Brazil and probably Russia.
Toyota’s management in India told us back in July during the refreshed Camry’s launch that the Etios would not sport a very contrasting design since the Indian market is flooded with hatchbacks of various designs. The vehicle’s strength would be high quality, superior ownership experience and high resale value, they added.
Etios, which means ‘the origin of’ unlike many other concept cars, is 90 percent the production model. It will come in both petrol and diesel engines – 1.4-liter diesel engine adopted from the Yaris hatchback and 1.2 or 1.3-liter petrol engine.
I am wating for more & more hopefull.
Regarding the Toyota Etios Concept, doesn’t this car almost looks identical to both the defunct Toyota Platz/Echo Sedan and the Toyota Soluna/Vios? Maybe this concept car is identical to both cars in size plus does it also utilize the old original Platz/Echo and Soluna/Vios sedan chassis? I know for a fact when these sedans were replaced by the newer Toyota Belta/Vios/Yaris. Those newer replacements were larger/longer than the Platz and the Soluna plus at the same time it utilizes a different chassis than the cars that they have replaced. So does this new Toyota Etios Concept utilize the “throwback chassis from the Platz/Echo and Soluna/Vios sedans? Or the shortened chassis of the Belta/Vios/Yaris?
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