Anyone seen the new Vitz yet? http://toyota.jp/vitz/index.html Looks cool. Like the old model better.

Oh man they ruined that poor little car.

Yeah they did. But they still have the RS version which still is good I guess.

Yeah fast and ugly is alot better than ugly and slow. lol

I guess that applies to Scions too. I mean slow and cool is better than round and fast. :)

I like it!

I rike it a rot.

looks nice. i'd want the RS.

Me too.

It looks alright. Im not familiar with the old ones, so I dont know what they look like.

Hey bB lover post a few older vtiz pics for comparison. The old 3 doors were awesome.

like both the old and the new.

Alright hold on.

Well here's a link: http://www.toyota.ca/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WWW.woa/20/wo/Home.Vehicles.Go.EchoHatchback-hRtja4gb9FtBB1XvhrQccg/9.15?index%2ehtml Can someone tell me how to post pics?? I really wanna know. I hate having to give everyone links to see what I am talking about.

'05 Echo
http://www.toyota.ca/NWS/media/echohatchback/photos/l_pho2.jpg
wow, check out that glove box. I want one. lol

bBlover
To post pics right click a picture and choose the Copy Image Location option.
When you are posting, click the Img button above your type window. Next, click and hold the Ctrl button and click the "V" key. that will paste the Image Location. The last step is to reclick the Img button. Click the Preview button below your post text window to see if the pic worked and what it looks like.
Have fun. *wink*

Man I love the old 3 doors , slammed with some rims oh geezus. sweetness.

I like the new Vitz. I like the hidden in-dash cup holder and the "Push ENGINE START" button like on the Prius. But where is the passenger side airbag? According to the pics, that area is a tissue holder :nails:

Go here...click Front View...click cup holder:
http://toyota.jp/vitz/interior/index.html

Rear-hatch "handle" looks like an office water cooler spigot.
http://toyota.jp.edgesuite.net/vitz/grade/grade/image/main.jpg

http://toyota.jp/vitz/grade/grade/gradeval/image/gr_va05.jpg

vote yes

I can't paste any pics I need an exact way how to do it step by step. It sucks that I can't ever post pics when everyone else can.[/img]

Since that car has no passenger airbag I sure as heck won't be riding in it. And it sure as hell ain't legal here.

I am looking around the Toyota Japan website and the TRD version of the new Vitz doesn't look too shabby

i like the old Vitz i guess.

Fabolus body kit, Soooooooooo Hot!!!!
http://www.fabulous.co.jp/domestic_car/toyota/images/vitz_h001.jpg

build the old one
http://www.interq.or.jp/kansai/pln/pcraft/images/toyota_vitz_5door_u-type.jpg

http://www.interq.or.jp/kansai/pln/pcraft/images/toyota_vitz_5door_u-type.jpg

http://toyota.jp.edgesuite.net/vitz/grade/rs/image/main.jpg
http://toyota.jp.edgesuite.net/vitz/grade/rs/image/p04.jpg

Dude, that thing rocks. . . I like it.

Toyota better stop messin around and send us a Vitz. i dont care if they call it an Echo i want a RS

Toyota better stop messin around and send us a Vitz. i dont care if they call it an Echo i want a RS
or they can just call it the new xA...hehehe

i like the old Vitz i guess.

Fabolus body kit, Soooooooooo Hot!!!!
http://www.fabulous.co.jp/domestic_car/toyota/images/vitz_h001.jpg

build the old one
http://www.interq.or.jp/kansai/pln/pcraft/images/toyota_vitz_5door_u-type.jpg

http://www.interq.or.jp/kansai/pln/pcraft/images/toyota_vitz_5door_u-type.jpgKnow where the site for the other ones you but together like the bB and others is?

ill take the old than the new one...

i'm down with a new vits! the new vitz looks titz!

I saw a Actual Echo Hatch the one from Canada on Tuesday. It was that red color and the people was from Quebec

New one is a vast improvement. It looks much more modern. The old Vitz was beginnning to look a little too 1990-something.

Also, the new one has some kickin' technology:

2005 TOYOTA VITZ CVT4 Lithium-ion to go
Toyota often tests new and advanced technologies in the Japanese market years before launching them elsewhere. For example, all-wheel drive using only an electric motor to power the rear wheels—soon to be offered on the company's Lexus RX 400h luxury hybrid sport-utility—was first seen on hybrid delivery vans sold only in Japan.

So it's worth looking at one home-market version of the Toyota Vitz, a small four-door hatchback related to the Echo sold in North America. Along with a continuously variable transmission (CVT), the CVT4 model features a 14.4-volt, 12-ampere-hour, four-cell lithium-ion battery pack—the first in a low-cost production vehicle. The battery is part of the car's idle-stop system, which shuts the engine off when the car stops, switching to those battery cells to power the lights, heater, air conditioner, and radio. The cells also restart the engine when the driver releases the brake. Unlike those in a full-hybrid system, the Vitz's batteries don't actually move the car.

The batteries are charged by the engine's alternator as well as through regenerative braking. A motor-driven hydraulic pump keeps pressure on the pulley of the CVT to ensure the car can move away from stops without pause.

The small Vitz batteries store about 180 watthours, equivalent to a couple of laptop batteries. But the resulting fuel economy in highly urban Japanese driving cycles is impressive: 3.92 L/100 km (60 mpg), the highest in Japan for vehicles other than hybrids or microcars.

The Vitz is not the first Japanese-market auto ever to use lithium-ion batteries. The Nissan Almera Tino Hybrid was powered by a 1.8-liter, 74-kilowatt (99 horsepower) four-cylinder engine, combined with a three-phase 20-kW electric motor driving a CVT. Its 345-V, 25-kW lithium-ion battery pack lets the electric motor power the vehicle from a stop and at low speeds and also lets it supplement the engine under higher load conditions. Nissan built only 100 Tino Hybrids, however.

Lithium-ion batteries do have some drawbacks. Most use metal-oxide cathodes that are highly flammable when heated. Also, calendar life, as opposed to just accumulated charge-discharge cycles, is a concern for lithium-ion batteries. Still, energy densities of 110 to 130 Wh per kilogram, as compared with, typically, 60 to 70 Wh/kg for nickel-metal hydride, make them extremely attractive to automakers. Last June, Japan's Hitachi, Hitachi Maxell, and Shin-Kobe Electric Machinery Co. announced they had formed a joint venture to make rechargeable lithium-ion batteries specifically for hybrid cars.

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/mar05/0305car.html