Toyota is now conducting extensive Euro testing on their Urban Cruiser, the small car first revealed in Geneva ’06. Smaller than the RAV-4, the Urban Cruiser is more a Jeep Compass rival than a Cherokee competitor, sitting lower than RAV and smaller as well. These are the first pics of the Urban Cruiser out breathing fresh air, not cooked up in some Japanese lab going through fuel-efficiency tests.
Our particular spy model is a diesel version; the photographer saw it fill up on the slow-burner. Urban Cruiser will attempt to attract younger buyers with its technologies, such as the navigation screen which can be viewed via a curved transparent panel, which is integrated with the centre console.
Toyota Urban Cruiser Real Life Photos Spied in Scandinavia
Toyota's Urban Cruiser runs snow flake tests
By Thami Masemola
February 24, 2008 11:13 PM
Filed Under: Japanese, Spy Photos, Toyota
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ck314
February 24, 2008 11:35 PM
This is basically a rebadged Scion xD, how come they say it was designed and engineered in France? If anything it would be adapted and built there for the european market.
lelu
February 24, 2008 11:52 PM
We French worked hard to put the Toyota logo instead of the Scion one =)
smokeonit
February 25, 2008 12:52 AM
i doubt this is the EU version... the headlights have the side markers for the US market... but diesel for the US, now??? i don't think so...
so the fron is the US version and the drive train is for the EU??? let's see...
smokeonit
February 25, 2008 12:59 AM
the new design looks much better than the scion xD as of now look...
especially the font looks much better... the rear hasn' changed much, and the side is almost unchanged...
smokeonit
February 25, 2008 1:03 AM
but i jusst spotted the giveaway that it must be an EU version... the rear fog light is included in the rear lights... on the left side the lower red... the scion has 2 "in-reverse" lights. the EU version only has one and one rear fog light... i hate when car companies are too cheap to put in 2 rear fogs and 2 "in-reverse" lights...
ck314
February 25, 2008 1:07 AM
Yeah, except when theyre both centered down. The front is EU too. I had noticed the typical US side markers too, then again in some scandinavian markets they're allowed/mandatory (see EU Volvo's ie).
Bristol411S3
February 25, 2008 10:52 AM
They will change the name before launch, right? Or are we expected to curb crawl for prostitutes or gays in it?
smokeonit
February 25, 2008 3:59 PM
ck314: the front side markers are legal in the EU now, not the US rear one in red... unfortunately..... the Eu allow yellow side markers like in the front...
what's not allowed is the parking lights in yellow...
BMW also sells the 5series with front side markers EU wide, from italy to scandinavia... like volvo in most of their cars... not all... volvo thinks it adds to safety, and i agree... it should be mandatory in the front... the rear EU side markers in yellow confuse more than help... the US red side markers make it easy to see the difference, for example when somebody backs out of a driveway... then you know that the driver is not able to see you...!
ck314
February 25, 2008 10:59 PM
yep, well that's the theory, because most recent volvos get red rear side markers in europe too, i wonder how they got homologated... in my opinion, from both safety and aesthetics standpoints, they should be allowed both (like in the us) or none at all
coopergt
February 25, 2008 7:09 PM
oh so we have to have an attack on curb crawlers here now on this site! i do not think a scion would be a great curb crawler, u have to moove up to a BMW for that!!
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