Toyota Auris HSD review (08/02/2012)

REGULAR readers will know of my general distaste for hybrid cars. It is a personal thing and not something I expect everyone to agree with, but the bottom line is that I don’t like them.

Call me a behemoth if you wish; tell me I’m stuck is some primordial time warp and unwilling to move with the times; why, you could even call me thick, if you want. I don’t really care. I still don’t like these things.

The latest of them that we get to test is the Toyota Auris HSD (that’s Hybrid Synergy Drive to you and me) and it is basically a Toyota Prius dressed up in new clothes. Toyota is spending a fortune on a marketing campaign for the car and has even gone as far as to billboard it on the front of the Munster rugby team’s jerseys in certain of their games this season, rather than using the normal Toyota logo.