pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/economy/" rel="tag"Economy/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/hybrids/" rel="tag"Hybrids/Alternative/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/green/" rel="tag"Green/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/toyota/" rel="tag"Toyota/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/in-the-autoblog-garage-2008-toyota-yaris-3-door/843530/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/03/yaris-garage-580.jpg" alt="" //abr /div align="center"emstrongsmallToyota Yaris Liftback - Click above for high-res image gallery/small/strong/embr //divbr /The a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/2009/03/23/could-toyota-base-new-low-cost-hybrid-on-auris-platform/"speculation/a can finally end. After weeks of hearing rumors regarding an impending low-cost hybrid from Toyota, emAutomotive News/em is reporting that the Japanese automaker is working on getting a hybrid drivetrain installed in the Yaris platform. The new car will use the same Hybrid Synergy Drive technology as the Prius but will cost considerably less when it goes on sale, which could take place as early as 2011.br /br /This new development is a direct response to the new a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/tag/honda+insight/"Honda Insight/a, a hybrid five-door that ostensibly competes with the Toyota Prius but a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/2009/03/10/2010-honda-insight-officially-priced-at-19-800/"costs thousands less/a due to its slightly smaller size, including a downsized engine and battery pack. When Toyota's Insight-fighter hits the market, we'd expect it to carry an engine that roughly matches the Insight's 1.3 liters, a full half-liter smaller than the powerplant in the a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/tag/2010+toyota+prius/"2010 Prius/a.br /br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/in-the-autoblog-garage-2008-toyota-yaris-3-door/"In The Autoblog Garage: 2008 Toyota Yaris 3-door/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/in-the-autoblog-garage-2008-toyota-yaris-3-door/843530/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/06/yaris_001_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/in-the-autoblog-garage-2008-toyota-yaris-3-door/843560/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/06/yaris_0013_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/in-the-autoblog-garage-2008-toyota-yaris-3-door/843531/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/06/yaris_002_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/in-the-autoblog-garage-2008-toyota-yaris-3-door/843532/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/06/yaris_003_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/in-the-autoblog-garage-2008-toyota-yaris-3-door/843551/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/06/yaris_004_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divbr /[Source: a href="http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090325/ANA02/903259986/1186"Automotive News/a - sub. req'd]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/03/25/toyotas-low-cost-hybrid-to-be-based-on-yaris/"REPORT: Toyota's low-cost hybrid to be based on Yaris/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:29:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090325/ANA02/903259986/1186Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/03/25/toyotas-low-cost-hybrid-to-be-based-on-yaris/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1498187/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/03/25/toyotas-low-cost-hybrid-to-be-based-on-yaris/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/apa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/IdOUsKR5creL1RZNLiBHGpPM_cU/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/IdOUsKR5creL1RZNLiBHGpPM_cU/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=GwKE_dlIiPo:NqmSxsfORhw:wF9xT3WuBAs"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=GwKE_dlIiPo:NqmSxsfORhw:wF9xT3WuBAs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=GwKE_dlIiPo:NqmSxsfORhw:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=GwKE_dlIiPo:NqmSxsfORhw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/GwKE_dlIiPo" height="1" width="1"/

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