Comments on: Toyota, Isuzu diesel JV scrapped – report

By: martin

martin — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 02:43:03 +0000

In Europe and USA you can buy Toyota Corolla, RAV 4 and even Yaris with turbo-diesel engine.

Why these models are not available here in Australia is a mystery for me.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:01:38 +0000

Toyota doesn’t want to develop efficient and powerful small diesels as it will hurt prius sales and they know it.
The good news is their competitors will and in due course the consumer will have what it wants.

By: Shak

Shak — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:20:38 +0000

F-O working with competitors can be beneficial. MB and BMW decided to share platforms for their B-Class/1 Series cars and their S-Class/7 Series in 20008 and that seemed to work fine. But then again BMW clearly has less market segment in the luxo sector so MB would have recieved more benefit.

By: FrugalOne

FrugalOne — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:03:50 +0000

!*****PRIMO!*****

Don’t see how this relationship could have ever worked anyway, to many chiefs and no indians!

Both these companies compete in a number of segments so you don’t really want to be helping a competitor.

Both make superb DIEsel engines on their own, so i don’t see any need to do a joint venture.

None the less, BIGT[tm.F-0]have made in clear its future for hypermileing is totally hybrid/ulp, it seems to offer DIEsel only under duress!

Cheers

F-0