Toyota ETIOS Effect: Brace yourself for Toyota’s big India plans

Toyota Qualis MUV

Toyota Kirloskar Motors India came along to India, ten years ago, with the most puzzling launch, which many industry pundits sneered at, the Toyota Qualis MUV. Most folks were puzzled as to why Toyota, in spite of having a range of fine, globally best selling models like the Corolla and the Camry actually chose to enter India with the Toyota Qualis. A breadbox on four wheels, the Qualis singlehandedly propelled Toyota into the hearts and garages of many Indians, leaving competitors like Tata Motors with it’s Sumo, floundering and stunned. Toyota Qualis, though never looked contemporary even in it’s day, managed to win hearts with the stunning quality levels and bomb proof reliability, exhibited by both the 2.4 Liter IDI Diesel engine as well as the entire MUV as a package. It is is of little wonder then, that the Qualis was loved by both the family as well as the cabbie crowd and it isn’t too unusual for Toyota Qualis models clocking more than half a million miles under the most trying Indian condition munching miles happily with nothing more than the regular oil and oil filter changes. Read more

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October 29, 2010 | Filed Under Cars | 3 Comments

Etios Effect: Will Honda prepone it’s small car launch?

2011 Honda Small Car

Honda SIEL is mulling a preponement of it’s small car launch or that is what our fellow bloggers at various Indian auto blogs seem to imply with them abuzz about news of Honda preponing it’s small cars’ launch. Read more

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April 7, 2010 | Filed Under Cars | Leave a Comment

Toyota Etios: Spy Pictures Leaked

Toyota Etios

Toyota is betting big on it’s Economical Family Car concept(EFC) targeting the car buying populace of the developing nations. Named the Etios, the world launch of this car will take place right here in India, at the 2010 Indian Auto Expo.

We managed to lay our hands on a few spy pics of the hugely anticipated Toyota Etios. Take a dekko. Read more

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