Toyota Urban Cruiser from Toyota

Toyota Urban Cruiser - The newest small SUV from Toyota has unveiled today at the Geneva Motor Show. The Toyota Urban Cruiser is 1,725mm wide, 3,930mm in length, and 1,540mm tall.

The Toyota Urban Cruiser has a 140g/km CO2 emissions level, and shows a contemporary five-door styling. However, the Toyota Urban Cruiser will go on sale in the first half of 2009.

Press Release

European premiere of Toyota’s new small SUV, the Urban Cruiser

The new Toyota Urban Cruiser is an environmentally responsible small sports utility vehicle (SUV) aimed at the urban all-roader market. Presented at the Geneva Motor Show, the Toyota Urban Cruiser is the design preview of the production model that will be introduced in the first half of 2009.

The new Toyota Urban Cruiser will be launched into the small-SUV market, a segment that has virtually doubled in size since 2002. It provides a thoughtful answer to the consumer desires for SUVs and for low fuel bills and CO2 emissions. The new Urban Cruiser meets these demands with contemporary five-door styling and projected low CO2 emissions below the 140g/km threshold.

The Urban Cruiser draws on Toyota’s rich heritage of successful SUVs. The first Toyota SUV, the legendary Land Cruiser off-roader, was launched in 1951. While the new Urban Cruiser embodies all of Toyota’s SUV past, it also represents the very latest in a line of compact SUVs, a market segment that Toyota created with the original RAV4 back in 1994.

The new Urban Cruiser is an aspirational urban SUV very close to the spirit of the discontinued 3-door RAV4 model with its compact dimensions, packaging, practicality and four-wheel drive transmission.

Muscular styling for Urban Cruiser

The new Urban Cruiser features the rugged and muscular appearance expected of an SUV, but with the five-door practicality and compact dimensions required for urban usage.

The Urban Cruiser measures 3,930mm in length and is 1,725mm wide and 1,540mm tall. While the compact dimensions make it ideal for handling city streets, the Urban Cruiser has spacious accommodation for five people and ample luggage space.

Toyota’s Vibrant Clarity design language – the perfect imbalance of proportions - provides the Urban Cruiser with its athletic road stance.

The high belt line, additional bumper protection, prominent lower doorsills, and freeform geometrics that describe the muscular wheelarches provide the Urban Cruiser with a robust appearance.

Headlamps reach backwards from the front grille and outwards into the wings, further accentuating the car’s wide and tough road stance while adding to the car’s upmarket city appeal.

Turn indicators recessed within the door mirrors further emphasize the car’s urban sophistication, as do the large rear lamp units which extend dramatically into the rear wings and into the rear hatch door. Stylish five-spoke 17 inch alloy wheels, along with a special Ice Blue paint finish that reflects the car’s environmental credentials, further enhance the Urban Cruiser’s sophisticated city appeal.

A true choice in Toyota’s urban line-up

The new Urban Cruiser is an extension of Toyota’s small car line-up for the European market, providing consumers with a broad vehicle choice characterised by fuel efficiency and low emissions.

The Urban Cruiser will play a significant role in reducing Toyota‘s overall fleet emissions to an average 140g/km by 2009.

KEY POINTS

Stylish new five-door compact SUV for the urban all-roader market

Builds on a distinguished Toyota 4×4 heritage

Room for five inside, plus generous luggage space

Bold, muscular styling

Strong fuel economy and expected CO2 emissions below 140g/km

On sale in the UK in the first half of 2009

Toyota has given its new Urban Cruiser small SUV its European debut at the Geneva motor show, the latest addition to its distinguished 4×4 vehicle heritage.

The new model is aimed firmly at the urban all-road market, where European sales have almost doubled since 2002. Scheduled to go on sale in the UK during the first half of 2009, it responds to customer demand for stylish SUVs with lower fuel bills and CO2 emissions: Urban Cruiser is expected to come in below the 140g/km emissions benchmark.

Urban Cruiser draws on Toyota’s rich history of SUVs, which began in 1951 with the launch of the legendary Land Cruiser and went on to feature the landmark RAV4 in 1994 – the model which created the European compact SUV market.

The new Urban Cruiser is designed as an aspirational urban SUV that is very close in spirit to the discontinued three-door RAV4 with its compact dimensions, clever packaging, practicality and four-wheel drive transmission.

Muscular Styling

Urban Cruiser has the rugged, muscular appearance expected of an SUV, but with five-door practicality and compact dimensions that make it suitable for driving around town. It measures 3,930mm long, 1,725mm wide and 1,540 tall, with spacious accommodation for five inside, plus ample luggage space.

A high belt line, additional bumper protection, prominent lower door sills and pronounced wheel arches give the vehicle a robust appearance. The headlamps flow back from the front grille, out towards the wings, further accentuating the car’s wide and tough road stance.

Turn indicators are recessed into the door mirrors and the rear lamp units extend into the rear wings and tailgate. The show car is fitted with five-spoke 17-inch alloy wheels and a special Ice Blue paint finish.

Urban Cruiser will play a significant role in cutting the overall emissions of Toyota’s model range to an average 140g/km by 2009.