Toyota at the 2013 SEMA show

The Toyota Scion FR-S, a.k.a the GT86, has been named the Hottest Sport Compact at the 2013 SEMA show in Las Vegas. This is the second year running that Toyota has won the title for the car.

Toyota showed off four specially kitted and tuned coupes at the show. This included the GREDDY x Scion Racing FR-S racing prototype and the FR-S Steve Aoki Art Car, a music-themed version of the FR-S originated by star DJ and producer Steve Aoki.

Bulletproof FR-S Concept

FR-S Steve Aoki Art Car

Urban GT Sports Coupe

GREDDY x Scion Racing FR-S.

Check out the Toyota blog for more details.

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Norway October 2013

Will the little e-Up! make an impact in Norway?

"Leaf is Number One!" Edition

After last months historical landmark, with the Tesla Model S reaching the Number One spot of the General Ranking, now was the time for the Nissan Leaf sell like hot cakes and register a record 716 units sold, reaching #1 in the global monthly ranking with 5,6% share and boosting their YTD share to 3,2%, making it #4 in the YTD Global Ranking. 

Putting things in perspective, the Nissan Leaf is #3 YTD in the compact ("C") segment, with 3.755 units, behind the #2 Toyota Auris (3.982 units) and the unreachable (for now) VW Golf (6.239).

But it's not just the Leaf to reach  high numbers in Norway and fight with ICE's for segment leadership, it's important not to forget that the Model S main competitors are not EV's, but other "E" segment cars, like the 5-Series and E-Classes of the world, so...

...Despite a strong sales decline, selling just 98 units, the Model S still arrived ahead of their ICE segment competition. Adding these 98 sales with the Leaf score and the rest of EV's, the YTD EV share just kept on improving, now in 4,58%.

The rest of the market is far from these numbers, with the only real news being the arrival of the VW e-Up!, a car that should see success in this EV-hungry market.

Pl	Norway	Oct.	YTD	%	'12Pl
1	Nissan Leaf	716	3.755	69	1
2	Tesla Model S	98	906	17	N/A
3	Mitsubishi I-Miev e)	30	282	5	2
4	Toyota Prius Plug-In e)	20	160	3	5
5	Volvo V60 Plug-In e)	20	111	2	N/A
5	Renault Kangoo ZE	8	78	1	8
7	Renault Twizy e)	2	38	1	N/A
8	Opel Ampera		37	1	6
9	Peugeot iOn		26	1	4
10	Citröen C-Zero		16	0	3
11	Smart Fortwo ED		5	0	N/A
11 13 13	Mia Electric Think City Buddy EV	2	5 4 4	0 0 0	11 10 9
15 16 17	Volkswagen e-Up! e) Tesla Roadster Fisker Karma	2	2 2 1	0 0 0	N/A 7 12
	TOTAL	896	5.432	100

e) Estimate

Source: ofvas.no

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