Toyota Noah

Among the 495 Toyota entries in the MotorJury library, the Toyota Noah 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 2001. 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 Noah 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 Honda Honda Fit, the Porsche Porsche Cayenne, the Mazda Mazda6 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Toyota Noah reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 2.0 L Toyota AZ engine#1AZ-FSE / 1AZ-FSE Gasoline direct injection / direct-injected Straight-four engine / I4 (AZR60/65); quoted output is 114 kW; kerb weight is recorded at 1500 kg; drive goes through 4-speed Automatic transmission / automatic (2001–2004) / Continuously variable transmission / CVT (2004–2007); the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive. Worked together, those figures give roughly 76 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.

Its place in the Toyota story

Within Toyota's own catalogue the Toyota Noah sits alongside the Toyota Agya, the Toyota Calya, the Toyota Cami, the Toyota Duet. The record names the Toyota TownAce/LiteAce Noah (R40/R50) as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Design is credited to engine = Petrol engine / Petrol: / 2.0 L Toyota AZ engine#1AZ-FSE / 1AZ-FSE Gasoline direct injection / direct-injected Straight-four engine / I4 (AZR60/65). Assembly is recorded at Japan: Kariya, Aichi (Toyota Auto Body).

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 Noah was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.