It’s going to be a battle of Smart vs. IQ
By WorkCabin.ca Staff
With so much emphasize on hybrid and plug-in vehicles these, it's been easy to overlook another emerging trend in cars: the super subcompact.
The price of hybrid vehicles is still out of reach for many consumers (although that price point is falling lower with each passing year), and the price of the plug-in Chevrolet Volt coming in 2010 is expected to surpass $40,000CDN. So going the mini subcompact route may become more viable option in the immediate future for drivers concerned about fuel economy and low emissions. Expect several automakers to roll out super mini cars in the coming years.
That means the Smart car is finally about to get some competition. German automaker Daimler AG's super mini Smart car has been a familiar urban site on Canadian roads for several years. In fact, in North America it has basically been the it car in the mini car segment. In Canada alone, more than 3,000 Smart cars have been sold this year, a 46 per cent sales increase over the previous year. The Smart car is the only non-hybrid car in Canada to qualify for the federal government's full $2,000 ecoAuto rebate that brings the base cost of the car down to about $13,000 CDN.
But expect this vehicle segment to get a lot more attention now that Toyota, the world's No. 1 manufacturer of hybrid vehicles including the famed Prius, has launched its first mini subcompact car. Toyota's three-metre long IQ, already named best concept car of 2007 by Car magazine, is expected to make its North American debut at the Los Angeles car show this month, albeit it under Toyota's niche small-car brand Scion. The four-seater (yes, that's right, a four-seater!) travels 54 miles on a gallon of gas and is anticipated to cost less than $15,000US. Oh, and back to those four seats, for a minute. The world's smallest four-seat car is possible thanks to a flattened gas tank and no spare tire (better make sure you have a phone number for your road assistance service handy).
On Nov. 20, the IQ will go on sale in Japan where sales are expected to hit 2,500 vehicles per month. The car will go on sale in Europe in 2009.
Toyota has not announced when or if the IQ will be available in Canada, but odds are the car will end up in showrooms at some point because Canadians have already demonstrated a Smart (pun intended) fascination with low-emission super subcompacts.
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