Toyota
This is the catalogue record of the Toyota Aqua, one of 495 models Toyota has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 2011. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Toyota Aqua properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Lamborghini Lamborghini Aventador, the Peugeot Peugeot 208, the Jeep Jeep Grand Cherokee — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Toyota Aqua reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol Hybrid electric vehicle / hybrid: / 1490 cc Toyota Dynamic Force engine#M15A-FXE / M15A-FXE Straight-three engine / I3 (MXPK10/11/15/16); quoted output is 67 kW (petrol engine only) / 59 kW (1NM electric motor) / 3.9 – (1MM electric motor) / 85 kW (combined system output); kerb weight is recorded at 1080 –; drive goes through eCVT; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive (E-Four). Worked together, those figures give roughly 62 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Toyota's own catalogue the Toyota Aqua sits alongside the Toyota Agya, the Toyota Calya, the Toyota Cami, the Toyota Duet. Design is credited to Shingo Tomooka (project chief designer) / Yoshihiro Shimada, Syota Ito and Mika Ueno (exterior) / Ryota Fujishima and Ai Murai (interior). Assembly is recorded at Japan: Kanegasaki, Iwate (TMEJ).
This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.
Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.
The catalogue records what the Toyota Aqua was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.
Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.
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