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Toyota Motor Europe is looking to overtake Fiat as Europe’s low-CO2 champion. To knock Fiat off the top as the greenest automaker in Europe, Toyota is counting on its new UK-made Auris hybrid, which it started producing Monday at its Burnaston factory. “Toyota definitely wants to become Europe’s greenest automaker,” Willy Tomboy, Toyota Motor Europe [...]

As reported earlier this week, Toyota is working on a full-hybrid version of the Auris. The Japanese automaker confirmed today that it will build the hybrid version of the C-segment hatchback at its UK-based Burnaston, Derbyshire facility. Production of the first Euro-built full-hybrid Auris will kick off in mid-2010. Toyota said that the engines for [...]