Toyota Etios Good Option For Budget Conscious People

By Author: Shyam Prakash Pal
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Toyota Etios, a complete new budget friendly sedan able of seating up to 5 people from the Toyota Motors. The car offers a great competition to other companies such as Maruti, Hyundai and Tata in the Indian car market. If you wish to buy an affordable and stylish car for your family, it would be ideal choice for you.

Etios comes with a 1.5 litre refined petrol engine with an outmost torque of 132 Nm at 3000 rpm. The vehicle produces a power of 89 Bhp at 5600 rpm. Toyota Etios comes with a 1496cc and a 4 valve in-line cylinder petrol engine. It has a fuel tank capacity of 45 litres. It comes with great fuel consumption of 17 and 12 Kmpl on highways and in city particularly.

Toyota Etios Models
Toyota Etios J: comes with exclusive features such as digital trip meter, internally adjustable ORVM, Luggage room lamp, single tone fabric upholstery, Matte Black Front Grille, tubeless tyres, full wheel caps, AC with heater.
Toyota Etios G: B- pillar blackout, intermittent wiper, Body Colour Front Grille, bumpers, door handles and ORVM, Side protection moulding with chrome insert, Power windows, ...
... electric power steering and central locking, while rest of the specification similar to the J variant.
Toyota Etios G Safety: All specifications similar to the G version. However a safety package includes SRS Airbags, ABS and EBD are some added features
Toyota Etios V: Roof mounted antenna, rear defogger, tachometer, 2 DIN CD MP3 player with FM, USB and AUX support, Chrome ornament front grille, bumpers, front fog lamps, chrome insert door handles, chrome accented air vents, SRS Airbags, EBD, ABS, Driver seat belt warning, rest all specifications similar to the G alternate.
Toyota Etios VX: Side Skirt, 2 DIN DVD Mp3 player with FM, Dual toned fabric upholstery with black and red, chrome accented shift knob. Rest all specifications are similar to the V and G variants.

The safety specifications are quite a miss with the deficiency of Parking Sensors, Anti Braking System (ABS) and the most significant Airbag condition all due to the cost lessening factor. This model comes with all safety features and truly designed according to the needs of the Indian roads. It has twin Airbags and ABS only in the top model. The basic due to cost effective factor has less safety features for all. The light weighted doors and an engine without filling bring negativity to the car.

Having spent around 5 years in the journalism field, automobiles are something that catches my attention from the letter ‘A’. Speaking of Toyota, the recently launched Toyota Etios – which comes in "Hatchback and Sedan" type. Priced below 10 lakhs rupees, the Toyota offers both petrol and diesel variants.