Toyota Yaris News

  • Mercedes Benz C-Class versus Smart ForTwo

    The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has just come to a conclusion that we suspect many motorists have known for years - when it comes to car safety, size does matter. Conducting tests pitting micro cars against larger midsize vehicles, the IIHS found that in many cases the smaller cars were not able to afford their passengers the same level of protection as their larger counterparts. Unlike tests that show just how much damage SUVs can cause to micro cars, the focus on midsize vehicles, such as the Toyota Camry, was used to present a fairer testing scenario, rather than say...

  • Toyota Yaris
    Toyota planning inexpensive Yaris-based hybrid

    Ford has its new Fusion, Honda has the Insight, and Toyota's new Prius is about to hit the streets. But already the next generation of the hybrid wars is drawing up its battle lines, and this time it's smaller. Toytoa is planing a Yaris-based hybrid to take on Honda's Fit hybrid, due around...

  • The Chevy Aveo is already built in Mexico
    Small car, hybrid sales taking a long drive off a short pier

    The short-sightedness of the car-buying public is breathtaking. It was just months ago that fears over $4 gas prices had people scurrying about, dumping loaded SUVs for a fraction of their purchase price and replacing them with smaller, more efficient vehicles. But today, with fuel well under $2...

  • The Toyota Yaris Club
    Toyota shows Yaris Club by Five Axis at SEMA

    Toyota has taken a somewhat paradoxical tack at creating a stripped-down single-seat club racer out of a front-wheel-drive Yaris econo car. The company says the design harks back to the racing heritage of the Can-Am Group 7 category Toyota 7 from the late 1960s. The little car certainly looks...

Follow Us on Instagram @motorauthority

News First Drives Auto Shows Photos Videos Spy Shots