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First shown as a concept car at last year's Frankfurt Motor Show, iQ is appearing for the first time as a market-ready design, ahead of production starting towards the end of this year. Although measuring less than three metres long, this compact urban vehicle can carry three people in comfort, with room to spare to accommodate a child or carry luggage.
The ingenious design was created by bringing together six linked, space-saving engineering innovations that mark a revolution in Toyota's vehicle development. iQ is rich in Japanese design elements and signals a radical shift away from the belief that small cars, although kinder to the environment, are inherently basic and less safe.
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Toyota markets the iQ as the world’s smallest four-seat car; in fact it’s more of a 3+1, but it certainly is small: at 2980mm long, it’s smaller even than the original Mini.
When the concept car was shown at Frankfurt last year, Toyota remained quiet on the engine that would power it; the likelihood is that it’ll run a compact 1.0-litre triple with auto stop-start functionality, but we’ll find out for certain next month.
We should also get a clearer idea of where Toyota UK sees the iQ fitting in within its model range. Just because it’s their smallest car, it doesn’t necessarily follow that it’ll be Toyota’s cheapest. We’d bet that prices will kick off at around £8500: just above those of the Yaris supermini.
