In capital of France the premiere of the newest compact car Urban Cruiser from company Toyota has taken place. The novelty has been presented in March on a motor show in Geneva, however then the manufacturer has not promulgated all technical details about the car.

So, Urban Cruiser has length 3930 mm at a wheelbase of 2460 mm, luggage compartment volume in 314 l which increases to 749 l at the combined rear seats. The car will assemble in two variants: with front or an all wheel drive and in equipment by two economic and harmless motors - improved 1,4-litre D-4D (90 h.p.) and the new 1,33-litre gasoline engine (100 h.p.) with system of change of phases of gas distribution Dual VVT-i and technology Stop and Start which is standard for this unit. Both engines go together with a six-high-speed manual gear box, to the car to 100 km/hour for 12,5 seconds On version 1.33 thanks to system of fuel economy Stop and Start blowout СО2 makes speedup only 130/km

Fuel consumption on the front-wheel version is equaled 5,5 l/100 of km in the commixed cycle, all-wheel drive Urban Cruiser “eats” 5,1 l/100 of km. 16-inch light-alloy disks, the climate control, the electric drive of lateral mirrors, system of unlocking of doors enter into a model complete set without a key and an audiosystem with six columns with the built in control panel on a steering wheel. For safety Urban Cruiser road-holding ability systems, EBD and ABS answer the complete set of pillows.

Sales of this car in Europe start in first half of 2009, the company expects to realise not less than 30 thousand a year.

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