Without exception, concept cars are the ones that always leave the biggest impression on us. However, these are only concepts and we preferred to look at cars that are available to a wider or at least exclusive crowd of people. Are you interested in which 'machines' we remembered the most in 2018?
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At the Geneva Motor Show, the 12th generation Toyota Corrola was presented, in a form with a cut-off rear. The Touring Sports version was presented in Paris, and now the line has been completed by the sedan version, which will be available with a hybrid drive for the first time in Europe.
This time we will only deal with cars that have an exclusively hybrid drive and we will not count plug-in hybrids among them. So we will talk about cars that alternate between an electric motor and an internal combustion engine, or electric and 'fossil' energy.
For many, the Toyota Land Cruiser Utility Commercial is what they have wanted since the Toyota Land Cruiser was introduced. An SUV that excels in off-road work.
We were all eagerly waiting to see the new Toyota Supra in Geneva. Unfortunately, that hasn't happened yet, but we haven't been disappointed. Namely, they presented us with the concept and most toxic Toyota GR Supra Racing Concept.
For those sworn off-road enthusiasts, only driving a powerful off-road vehicle over almost impassable terrain counts. For the rest of us who prefer to stick to asphalt, there is the Venture Toyota FJ Cruiser, which can be taken for a wander via remote control.
Although at first glance it seems that the renovation is very superficial, there is more behind it than just a new color and a modified front part of the car. About four years after the presentation of the second generation Toyota Aygo, we saw its renovation, where the motif in the shape of the letter "X" is still in the foreground.
Toyota has introduced a new generation of vehicles that will have a special off-road Toyota modification. The abbreviation TRD stands for Toyota Racing Development, where already powerful off-road vehicles are improved to perform even better on challenging terrain.
Mercedes-AMG has the Project One, Red Bull and Aston Martin have the Valkyrie, and with any luck Toyota will have the GR Super Sport Concept. The first two draw their experience from the Formula 1 championship and create road-going supercars. Toyota is gaining experience in endurance competitions, the result of which is the GR Super Sport. For now still in concept form, but soon maybe in series production.
Toyota presented its vision of the future at this year's CES 2018. This one may not be the prettiest in terms of design at first glance, but it will be that much more useful for everyday purposes. The Toyota e-Palette is a vision of autonomous delivery vehicles, and the project has already attracted the interest of big names such as Amazon, DiDi, Mazda, Pizza Hut and Uber.
At Toyota, they emphasize that the Toyota FT-AC is only a design experiment, although it has many interesting things that we can easily imagine on one of the production cars in the near future. Maybe the cameras won't catch on that quickly, but when it comes to off-road driving and exploring the unknown, Toyota has definitely hit the nail on the head in this case.
Toyota's minivan doesn't have a flashy name, it was named Fine-Comfort Ride. More than the name, we were certainly attracted by the shape, which Toyota claims is a new form of premium MPV.