The A segment is a class where not every car manufacturer wants to be seen. This is partly due to the small profit margins on the most compact cars in the car country. Toyota indicates that it will simply remain active in the A segment and announces the arrival of a successor to the Aygo!
The current generation Toyota Aygo dates from 2014, making it the oldest model that the brand offers in the Netherlands after the Toyota Land Cruiser (Prado). good news: the Aygo is getting a successor! The fact that Toyota talks about “[…] a new A-segment model that succeeds the successful Aygo “strongly suggests that the newcomer will not be called Aygo.
The new Toyota Aygo will be on the GA-B platform, a basis that Toyota already applies under the new Yaris and the Yaris Cross which will be launched later this year. The Aygo successor will no longer have a Citroën C1 and Peugeot 108 next to it as brothers and sisters, as Toyota focuses itself on developing ‘the new Aygo’. Isn’t a platform intended for the B-segment too expensive for a car like the Aygo? Basically yes, but Toyota says that the economies of scale created by using the platform for three models are so great that the platform can also be folded under the smallest European model of the brand.
Toyota emphasizes that the successor to the Aygo will simply have a combustion engine. Toyota’s new city car will not get an electric powertrain, which would make the car too expensive for the segment. The fact that the Aygo successor will not be an EV does of course not mean that Toyota is not electrifying its new little one to a certain extent. The new compact Toyota may benefit from a mild hybrid powertrain, although we are currently investing our money on ‘just’ a new petrol engine. It is not yet known when Toyota will bring the Aygo successor to the market.
Shown in photos 1 and 2: an illustration of how the Toyota Aygo’s successor could become.