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.

The chief engineer on the development of a new generation of Toyota Prius Akihito from here allegedly confirmed that the Japanese company is preparing a new hybrid car, which is based on the model Yaris.
With this step, Toyota aims to create a serious competitor to the Honda Insight, which is currently the cheapest hybrid in the world. It is expected that the price of compact hybrid to be 20-30% cheaper than the Prius.
From now on they also revealed that the hybrid system in the car together in themselves 1.5-liter internal combustion engine, electric motor and a new generation of batteries, and that the appearance of the model can be expected in 2011.