toyota vios

The Toyota Vios is a subcompact sedan and one of Toyota Motor Philippines’ most treasured and best-selling nameplates, along with its bigger MPV and SUV brothers. The Vios nameplate was introduced in 2002 and is driven and tested by thousands of Filipino drivers, be it for public or private use. With this, the Vios is consistently among the country’s best-sellers outselling many other vehicles in Toyota’s lineup almost every year. Toyota proudly sells this sedan as a Philippine-made product, with the brand’s plant in Santa Rosa churning out these subcompacts in order to meet demand in the Philippine market. 

The refreshed Vios hosts a whole new exterior and interior design. Decorating the front are the long squinting headlights, teardrop-shaped fog lamp vents, plus a wide trapezoidal grille. Even the taillights have been stretched, wrapping to the rear quarter panel. TMP added new Prime variants to its lineup which are equipped with skirts, spoiler, and a differently-styled bumper straight out of the showrooms. The interior, on the other hand, saw a major makeover as well. The cabin features a newly-designed steering wheel that’s similar to the one found in the Toyota Yaris, while the dashboard boasts a more unified styling to the sense that it flows smoothly towards the door panels.

Since the refresh’s debut in the Philippine market, Toyota has since expanded the model’s lineup with several new variants that are affordably priced like the XE and the XLE, which both feature CVTs which are indispensable for drivers in Philippine traffic. These variants accompany the E and G variants which remain core offerings in the Vios lineup. Toyota Philippines would then again give the Vios another refresh in August of 2020 giving the vehicle a revised front face, a price restructuring, as well as a few new features to make the vehicle even more attractive and give it a great value for money proposition.