As we announced at the forthcoming exhibition in Geneva, unless renewed RAV4, Toyota will display and modification of the hybrid model Auris, which earlier today, the Japanese company photo spread. Auris HSD is based on the eponymous concept debuted at the Frankfurt Motor Show last autumn and will be the first hybrid model of Toyota, which will be produced in Europe. The car will appear at dealers in the Old Continent in July and will be able to run and in pure electric mode. By the Japanese company has not disclosed details of its hybrid system, but hard to speculate that it would be identical to that of the Prius Plug-in Hybrid. We remind you that this Prius has a 1.8-liter gasoline engine with a power 97k.s., advanced electric motor and lithium-ion batteries, rechargeable in a standard household contact for 1.5 hours.

Toyota showed undergone a slight facelift model Auris 2010. According to producers, model of 2010 Auris has received minor changes in appearance as a new grille, modified front and rear bumpers, new headlamps and tail lamps, redesigned alloy wheels and a new bonnet. There are slight changes in interior layout of the new colors, better materials and improved version of the standard equipment. Furthermore, light has undergone modernization and petrol engine volume 1.8 liters, it has changed the system of alternating opening and closing of valves, it has improved the efficiency of the unit. Moreover, at 1.8 CVT transmission with steering wheel is a new levers for switching the transmission. In Japan, Auris is available with smaller engine volume 1.5 liters. Prices of compact cars in Japan starting from 1,622,000 yen (€ 12,200) for basic Auris (1.5) 150X FWD and get to 2,331,000 yen (€ 17,500) for the most expensive Auris (1.8) S-Package 4WD.

In an official statement, the president of Toyota Europe Tadashi Arashima said that in the middle of next year the company will place on the Old Continent hybrid version of the model Auris. Production of cars will take place in the company factory in Barnaston Derbishir (UK). Arashima also said that its decision, Toyota is striving to become more of a European market, through more affordable hybrid models, which judge the price of the car should be lower than that of the model Prius. the new car is waited with great interested for the new concept, because of the flood of new electric and hybrid aboutomobiles last years.