Hybrid with the right mix
When Toyota launched the first petrol-electric hybrid car six years ago, reactions from the rest of the world's motor industry ranged from the sceptical to the derisive.
Here was a car, a boring-looking, sloppily-handling but undeniably worthy family five-seater, that Toyota, Japan's biggest carmaker, had provided with not one but two expensive-to-produce power units. A car that, far from making money, would cost Toyota plenty to get into the marketplace because its price would have to be heavily subsidised. Not least, a car whose main raison d'
