Toyota Aygo X Full Hybrid: Test and consumption of the Hybrid CityCar

Thirty -one million in 76 millimeters. Toyota He will never use the perhaps more direct message as a slogan that comes from New Aygo X Generation 2025 Rather, he earns power, until he reaches 116 HP overall, but above all he reaches lower consumption at one liter of petrol every 30 km. The first preview test On the streets of Berlin has the side effect of making other Citycar obsolete already on the list or even coming, such as the new Fiat 500 with 70 HP Mild Hybrid system. Toyota Aygo X Full Hybrid It will be available in Italy starting from December: the prices have not yet been communicated, but the first information place the entry version clearly below 20 thousand euros.

1Design and interiors

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In Europe Aygo X has already collected a successful success, with over 210,000 units sold since the launch in 2022 and proper merits, as well as derogations of others. In fact, many have not remained the automotive manufacturers still interested in investing in the smaller strip of cars of the market, that segment a Which now requires technical capacity to update itself to the most recent anti -pollution regulations. In doubting to abandon and evolve Toyota has chosen the second road, at least apparently without exaggerating. New Aygo X no longer has the traditional 72 HP 1.0 petrol engine and reaches 377 cm in length thus adding 76 millimeters in the front area, literally making room for PowerTrain 1.5 Full Hybrid. We must also consider it a profit in aesthetic terms, with a quite more enveloping look of the bumper and redesigned front headlights, while the air intake is underlined decisively.

The rest of the car has no substantial changes: the distance between the front and rear wheels remains at 243 cm and the trunk remains at 231 liters of capacity. Aygo X is approved for four passengerswith those in front objectively free to move. The seats behind have a lower space available to the legs. The mainly urban use of the car was clear from the beginning, but now it is accompanied by a total cure of the model at the height of the older sister Yaris. There is more research of the detail, he takes care of the assemblies between the components of the bodywork and in the internal finishes of the goalkeeper, even in the choice of 17 “or 18” wheels in diameter, with the option of the canvas canvas roof that discovers the whole passenger compartment.

The specimen of pre -production that we tested did not yet show the functionality of the new multimedia system combined with one 10.5 “screen at the center of the dashboard. For the first time Aygo X will be updated via the web for its entire useful life, but also connected with the MyToyota smartphone app, so that customers can keep track of various vehicle analyzes, such as driving analysis, fuel consumption levels, warnings and vehicle locator. The app also enables a digital key function, which can be used to block and unlock the vehicle, as well as to start the engine.

2GR Sport version

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With the arrival of Full Hybrid engine, Aygo X also earns that version Gr sport which already belongs to the range of many other larger Toyota models. A novelty also of substance, if it is true that it brings one with it Specific development of the structure, with shock absorbers and eliminous helical springs, but also the most direct operation of the Electrical Servoa steering. The eye inevitably goes two two -tone combination of the bodywork, with a black engine hood and specific inserts underlying the goalkeeper. Aygo X GR Sport will be proposed in Senape, White Pearl and Dark Storm Gray colors, with grilled front grille and 18 “in diameter rims, while the interiors will have black and gray finishes, in addition to the embroidered GOGO.

3PowerTrain Full Hybrid

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At least on paper it might seem everything expected, but Toyota’s remains a detouring move on the entire Citycar market of segment A and the largest segment B, where the Japanese brand still has its best seller Yaris, 394 cm long. Aygo X shares the latter Ga-B mechanical platform Toyota Global New Architecture, therefore an update in the direction of Full Hybrid was technically conceivable from the beginning. The transition from the traditional 1.0 petrol from 72 HP to 116 HP of overall power of the new solution, however, is only one of the useful results. New Aygo X in fact reaches the level of CO2 emissions equal to 86 g/km, i.e. lower than any car on the market that is not plug-in or electric hybrid. It is not only the Full Hybrid Citycar Full Hybrid of the market, but also has an absolute efficiency.

The PowerTrain is exactly the one used by the entrance version of Yaris, with 3 -cylinder petrol engine from 1,490 cmc to Atkinson cycle, variable fault of the valves and a series of precautions to reduce internal friction. The 92 hp of petrol power must then be combined with those of the 80 HP electric engine, and this is the determining factor to make everything more dynamic, with a lithium -ion battery that for the first time on a toyota is composed with the two non -flanked cell batteries, but positioned next to each other for the entire width of the floor, under the rear seats, distributing the weight better. If the adaptation of the hybrid powertrain to Aygo X seemed therefore obvious, he is actually the son of the long -term strategy which made it possible also in economic terms, for those who buy. The car that arrives today is the result of a reasoning already made and led to yet another consequences that other companies, at this moment, cannot reach.

4Preview test

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The hybrid is a energy systemnot just a double engine solution. Toyota repeats this sentence since 1997, the year of the debut of PriusFirst Full Hybrid in history. The evolution was in gradually enhancing the electric traction component Around its peculiar feature, its power split “with sun and satellites”, so called due to the similarity of the satellite gears that revolve around a central one, surrounded by a tooth, the crown. What has always been the main mechanical feature of the Toyota system is now managing a hybrid system, however still capable of amaze. We led Aygo X on the streets of Berlin and around the German capital. The specimen belonged to the final series of pre -production, i.e. definitive car except for some marginal details. The results were impressive. We have chosen Aygo X in the Gr Sport version, really more rigid in structure in absorbing roughness, but also specifies in maintaining the trajectory in curve and capable of exploiting the most direct adjustments of the steering with a certain ease. Question of greater determination, with the good work of the front McPherson suspension and the rear torsion bar, but also thanks to the reduced weight up to 1,090 kg.

The Aygo idea of ​​a small exquisitely city scale SUV remains the same, but what seemed to be an oversized frame, with quality even wasted for the 72 HP motorization, now taking advantage of the acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h in less than 9.2 seconds and of the maximum speed at an altitude 172 hours. However, the real point is not even this. In the first card provided to journalists, Toyota declares to new Aygo medium consumption corresponding to 3.7 liters of petrol every 100 km. In an actually rather rare way in the sector, the real feedback of our test have made it possible to see even lower consumption. Not a little, without discounts, therefore without slowing in an spasmodic and unnatural way, Aygo X Full Hybrid has faced Mixed paths with large suburban sections never exceeding the detection of 3.5 LitrI of fuel per 100 km. The entire system is fluid and transparent in the use of the petrol engine with full laps when the power demand becomes maximum, with a very not very noticeable E-CVT gearbox effect, and in any case compensated by the electric, therefore with now minimal disproportions between the rise of the three-cylinder regime and the actual increase in speed. In the city Aygo X then showed another face again, with the zero emission march that became a very important portion of the time of use, even 80% considering the sum between traits in pure electrical, braking phases and release. Our first preview test on urban roads of Berlin made it possible to arrive up to 2.9 liters of petrol needed to travel 100 km. Translated, it means consuming a liter of gasoline quite usually every 30 km. By parametering the average costs between fuel and energy, Aygo X Full Hybrid comes to be competitive with an electric CityCar also from the point of view of travel to the Km.

5Data sheet

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The data provided by Toyota on the new Toyota Aygo X: