What's Wrong With This Picture: Toyota's High-iQ Minivan Edition

Edward Niedermeyer
by Edward Niedermeyer

Toyota’s Verso S will debut at the forthcoming Paris Auto Show, and these first pictures show that iQ-inspired styling is starting to creep across the Toyota small-car lineup. So does the edgier (by Toyota standards) iQ-inspired design language mean the shortest micro-MPV in Europe (at under 4 meters) might make it stateside as a Scion-branded van? Anything’s possible, but Toyota ain’t saying… for now.



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  • APaGttH APaGttH on Aug 31, 2010

    A Scion branded minivan?!?! I didn't know generation Y was into mom-mobiles.

    • Psarhjinian Psarhjinian on Sep 01, 2010

      I'm right on the border of X and Y and have two kids. Recall the G-Y is ~1977 through to ~1990. Most of those people at least 20, and Y is generally having kids earlier than X or the Boomers did.

  • Amac Amac on Sep 01, 2010

    I dislike Toyota designs. Homely and awkward.

  • SCE to AUX Figure 160 miles EPA if it came here, minus the usual deductions.It would be a dud in the US market.
  • Analoggrotto EV9 sales are rivalling the Grand Highlander's and this is a super high eATP vehicle with awesome MSRPs. Toyota will need to do more than compete with a brand who has major equity and support from the automotive journalism community. The 3 row game belongs to HMC with the Telluride commanding major marketshare leaps this year even in it's 5th hallowed year of ultra competitive sales.
  • Analoggrotto Probably drives better than Cprescott
  • Doug brockman I havent tried the Honda but my 2023 RAV4 is great. I had a model 20 years ago which. Was way too little
  • Master Baiter The picture is of a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle.
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