Toyota · Aqua

Toyota Aqua 1st generation (NHP10)

Years
2011–2021
Chassis
NHP10
Drivetrain
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Toyota Aqua 1st generation (NHP10)

Image: Tokumeigakarinoaoshima / CC0

Story

A 5-door hatchback smaller than the 3rd-generation Prius. It arrived with world-leading fuel economy of 35.4 km/L in the JC08 mode.

Stories

01

Driving with the meters printed on paper

Ogiso wanted the 3.5-inch LCD display in the Aqua's instrument panel to look clean and neat. Just asking the supplier's designers did not produce the screens he had in mind, so he did layouts himself, decided the background had to be black, and got hold of the screen data to rework it. He printed several screens on paper at actual size, stuck them on the instrument panel of his own car, and checked how they looked while driving.
Satoshi Ogiso

Chassis

WB 2,550 mm

Production plants

US import eligibility

Earliest cars
Eligible from December 203625 years after sales began in December 2011
Last cars
Eligible during 204625 years after sales ended in 2021 (month not recorded)

Eligibility depends on each car's month of manufacture on its build plate, not on the sale dates shown here (NHTSA).

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Engineers

Satoshi Ogiso

Satoshi Ogiso

Chief engineer of the first-generation Aqua. From the planning stage onward, he directed development from the front line as development lead throughout.