Toyota Belta

Among the 495 Toyota entries in the MotorJury library, the Toyota Belta holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2005. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Toyota Belta properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. 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 Kia Kia Sportage, the Aston Martin Aston Martin Vantage, the Bugatti Bugatti Veyron — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Toyota Belta reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 1.0 L Toyota KR engine#1KR-FE / 1KR-FE Straight-three engine / I3 / 1.3 L Toyota SZ engine#2SZ-FE / 2SZ-FE Straight-four engine / I4 / 1.3 L Toy; kerb weight is recorded at 990 –; drive goes through 5-speed C50/C54 Manual transmission / manual / 4-speed Toyota U transmission#U340E / U340E/Toyota U transmission#U441E / U441E/Toyota U transmission#U441F / U441F automatic transmi; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout / Front-engine, front-wheel-drive / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive layout / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive (Belta only). 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.

Its place in the Toyota story

Within Toyota's own catalogue the Toyota Belta sits alongside the Toyota Agya, the Toyota Calya, the Toyota Cami, the Toyota Duet. The record names the Toyota Platz / Toyota Platz/Yaris/Echo sedan (XP10) (international) / Toyota Vios (XP40) (China and Southeast Asia) as its predecessor and the Toyota Corolla (E160) / Toyota Corolla Axio (E160) (Japan) / Toyota Vios (XP150) / Toyota Vios/Yaris (XP150) (emerging markets) / Scion iA / Scion iA/Toyota Yaris sedan (North Amer as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Junichi Furuyama (chief engineer) / Takashi Hagino, Motoaki Sakaue, Hideo Kouyama, Koichi Sumigama and Daisuke Iguchi (pre-facelift) / Jiro Okimoto and Yohei Kusamoto (facelift, Be. Assembly is recorded at Japan: Kanegasaki, Iwate (Kanto Auto Works, Belta/Yaris sedan) / China: Tianjin (FAW Toyota / TFTM, Vios) (February 2008–July 2013) / Malaysia: Shah Alam / Shah Alam, Selangor (UMW.

How this catalogue works

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.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Toyota Belta was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.