Toyota's High Mileage Cars First To Meet EU Guidelines

Oct 09: Tough new emissions standards will have to be met in the EU from 2013 and the Toyota high mileage car fleet is the first to meet them.
Its a big pat on the back for Toyota who are desperate to get the message out that its not just the Prius thats green, but the company as a whole. Toyota have worked hard with their engines to make their cars economical and low carbon emitters but there's another good reason why they got there first. Toyota have eliminated all sports cars from their range. Years ago they used to have quite a pedigree in performance cars with the likes of the Supra and Celica but these were slowly removed from their range. Today they do not sell a single high performance car. The reason is probably partly because they have bad fuel mileage and high emissions and they didn't fit with Toyota's new green image.
The new European Union law in force from 2013 will be 130 grams of CO2 per kilometre for each car maker. Its ok to be over this for some of your cars but your fleet average as a whole needs to meet this level. Toyota currently have a fleet average of 129.15 g/km of CO2. Six of their models emit less than 130 g/km.
Toyota are starting to make a habit of being the first manufacturer to green milestones and other car makers need to work harder to catch up or risk being left further behind the economical car maker.