The Toyota City Cruiser has been revealed because the Japanese large’s newest electrical automobile (EV), however we’ve seen it earlier than.
That’s as a result of it’s a evenly restyled model of the just lately revealed Suzuki e Vitara, with a brand new ‘hammerhead’ front-end design to align it with just lately launched Toyota fashions just like the Prius and the Chinese language-market bZ3X.
Different adjustments are minor, and embrace issues like distinctive tail-light graphics and badging.
Whereas it has been confirmed for Europe, Toyota has but to substantiate if the City Cruiser will come to Australia.
“The brand new City Cruiser is an thrilling subsequent step on Toyota’s electrification journey. At Toyota Australia, we’re at all times seeking to increase our product choices to prospects however we’ve got nothing to announce in the present day,” mentioned a Toyota Australia spokesperson.
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Toyota says it plans to have 15 zero-emission automobiles in its European vary by 2026, together with six EVs on a devoted platform. It has been extra modest with its objectives in our market, saying early in 2023 it deliberate to have three EVs in Australia by 2026.
The City Cruiser’s shut relation to the e Vitara additionally means the Toyota is mechanically unchanged.
Entrance-wheel drive fashions provide a alternative of 49kWh and 61kWh lithium-iron phosphate (LFP) batteries, whereas all-wheel drive fashions come completely with the 61kWh LFP battery.
With the smaller battery, front-wheel drive fashions produce 106kW of energy and 189Nm of torque. Upgrading to the bigger battery bumps energy as much as 128kW, whereas including all-wheel drive brings outputs as much as 135kW and 300Nm.
No matter battery, a warmth pump is customary together with operated by hand battery pre-heating.
Dimensions are unchanged from the e Vitara, other than a modest 10mm improve in size:
| Toyota City Cruiser | |
|---|---|
| Size | 4285mm |
| Width | 1800mm |
| Peak | 1640mm |
| Wheelbase | 2700mm |
It has a 140mm longer wheelbase than the Yaris Cross, regardless of measuring 105mm longer total, and rides a brand new devoted EV platform.
Suzuki calls this Heartect-e, and says it was developed in collaboration between not solely it and Suzuki but in addition Daihatsu.
The City Cruiser rides on both 18- or 19-inch alloy wheels, with a hard and fast sunroof non-compulsory.
Inside, there’s a ten.25-inch digital instrument cluster and a ten.1-inch touchscreen infotainment system with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay.
The 40:20:40 cut up/fold rear seats additionally slide, whereas there’s 12-colour ambient lighting. Non-compulsory niceties embrace an influence driver’s seat and a JBL sound system.
Commonplace security tools consists of adaptive cruise management, lane-keep help, and a surround-view digicam. All-wheel drive fashions characteristic hill descent management.
This isn’t the primary time Toyota has used the City Cruiser nameplate.
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Suzuki e Vitara
It has beforehand been used on a European-market model of the Toyota Ist/Scion xD; an Indian-market model of the Suzuki Vitara Brezza; and an African and Center Jap-market model of the present Suzuki Grand Vitara.
Toyota and Suzuki have shared automobiles on quite a few events.
In markets like South Africa, for instance, Toyota rebadges the Suzuki Baleno because the Starlet, whereas in Europe Suzuki rebadges the Toyota Corolla and RAV4 because the Swace and Throughout respectively.
Toyota has a stake of round 5 per cent in Suzuki.
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