With the incoming of competition from various rivals for Toyota Vios such as, Honda City, Naza Kia Forte, Nissan Latio, Sentra – Toyota have to come out with a car that would stand out from the crowd and at time justify-able. UMW Toyota has decided take away the Vios “S” spec and give way to a more sporty and with more equipment – Toyota Vios TRD Sportivo.

Toyota Vios TRD Sportivo was born in the last pre-facelift version and it has been revised together with this Vios facelift version. We’ve reported to you on the Toyota Vios G Spec & Toyota Vios E Spec earlier. Thus, we will be concertrating what UMW Toyota give you as extra in the Vios TRD Sportivo as compare to other Vios variants.

At a glance from the front, immediately the sporty factors is carried out with the lower front bumper bodykit and with a badge with “TRD Sportivo” it does give this Vios a very outstanding factor as compare to others variant.

The rear of a the Vios TRD Sportivo is equipped with  low spoiler with another 3rd brake light on top of the existing one. Although the spoiler it’s not as aggressive looking as those after-market Mugen or Evo X spoiler, this spoiler carries the sportiness of the 1.5L  Vios without over doing it unlike the one on Toyota Altis TRD Sportivo we posted earlier.

The sides of the spoiler is also badged with TRD Sportivo logo. The rear bodykit of Vios TRD Sportivo is painted with a two-tone colour effect to increase the visual effect of a diffuser like styling. A chrome tail pipe is also attached to the exhaust. To further identify this top of the range Vios, a TRD Sportivo badge is attached to the rear boot where normally other version of Vios would be placing “J, E or G” .

Click here to read more details on Toyota Vios TRD Sportivo

From today onwards until Sunday. Toyota Malaysia and Honda Malaysia will have roadshows to show off their vehicle in 1utama shopping mall in Petaling Jaya. We expect they will certainly bring their newly launch vehicle. On the left with have Toyota Vios Facelift or rather know a.k.a Vios Desirable. On the right, we have the as what Honda Claimed, Premium Compact-MPV, the Honda Freed.

We have covered the Toyota Vios Facelift ( Vios Desirable) and of course the Honda Freed in detail. Do check out our post below. If you want to view the actual cars head to One Utama today or this weekend to see the flee of Toyota and Honda vehicles.

Toyota Roadshow – 1 Utama – 12-16 May 2010 – Ground Floor Highstreet

Honda Roadshow – 1 Utama – 14-16 May 2010 – Ground Floor

Our internal sources told us that, below are the other cars expect to turn up.

As for Toyota,

As for Honda,

Enjoy viewing the cars this weekend in 1utama. Click the below links to obtain more information on Toyota and Honda roadshow across Malaysia.

All Toyota Road Show Date and Venue

All Honda Road Show Date and Venue

The 2010 Toyota Vios Facelift model arrived at all Peninsular Malaysia Toyota showrooms since 16^th April 2010.  For those are still new to Toyota Vios models, they offers Vios 1.5 Automatic Transmission with TRD Sportivo, G, E, J Spec and Manual Transmission with J Spec. All variants having the same engine and price range from RM71,990 to RM92,000.

So far, Toyota Vios and Nissan Sentra is the only 2 Japanese Passenger Cars that offering Manual Transmission besides the sports car like Civic Type R. – Which I am proud of that they know what the markets wants.

There are always people saying, Toyota selling ‘uncle’ car with ‘uncle spec’. Things are totally different now. UMW Toyota now finally knows what the market wants.In this article, I would concentrate on the comparisons between G Spec and E Spec.

If you are looking for details on Toyoto Vios Facelift 2010 1.5 G Spec – please click here.

After the new facelift, the E Spec now come with Dark coloured Interior which suddenly make things totally different – Much nicer, more ultramodern.

Prospective buyers that prefer beige interior and chrome finishing, they can now go for G Spec. While young owner that wants something sportier, you have option of J, E Spec or the TRD Sportivo.

The G Spec comes with integrated audio head unit while the E Spec comes with Standard double-din audio head unit with MP3, WMA and 4 Speakers. Overall, is not a bad thing as now you can fit ‘aftermarket’ double-din multimedia head unit with reverse camera by simply replacing it without changing the panel.

Click here to Read more about Toyota Vios Facelift 1.5E Malaysia 2010 details with more Photos!

Toyota Vios facelift Malaysia refreshed for the new 2010 edition to take on the competitors in the market. This is the second generation of Toyota Vios in Malaysia and a facelifted version. UMW Toyota Malaysia markets the new face-lifted Vios as “Vios Desirable“. The auto-maker expects to sell more than 32,400 units of the Toyota Vios this year prior with the launch of this facelift model.

The car we are talking here will be the Toyota Vios G-spec. While most of the facelift will at least have a new bumper design. Toyota Vios facelift for 2010 retain the same bumper. However, from the front view we can easily notice a New Radiator Grille fixed to the face-lifted Vios. The new design it said to be a more sporty appearance. However we think that it’s more of the “elegance” theme as it reminds us the resemblance of the Camry styled front grille.

Another point that easily noticeable to differentiate between facelift and pre-facelift from the rear of the Vios, would be the rear lamps. The new enhanced rear lamps give a more dimensional layer of each lamp. I think its better design compare to the old one as it has some “wing” effect.

The new Vios also comes with a new 15″ six twin-spoke new alloy rims. Since we are looking at the Vios Facelift G-spec, a new set of wheels limited to the 1.5 G variant of Vios as above. On top of that, only the G-spec of Vios and the TRD Sportivo has front-back disc brake while the J-spec and E-spec variant of Vios gets Front disc brake and rear drum brakes.

Moving on to the interior, we can see the new steering wheel being attached to the new Vios. Personally I quite like the design of this steering wheel, the older one reminds me of some old 90′s car every time I sat in a Vios. The new steering is wrapped with leather and has a slight sporty grip feel.

Click here to Read more about Toyota Vios Facelift Malaysia 2010 details with more Photos!

UPDATES 16 April 2010 : Toyota Vios Facelift 2010 Malaysia Review – Vios Desirable Click Here !!!

Fellows that been following us thru out the Toyota Vios Facelift article, probably you have knew that UMW Toyota Motor have increase and slightly decrease the estimated price on the facelift model of Toyota Vios. Unfortunately with all the adjustment, the price of a new Vios has now maintained above the mark of RM70k. For a detail on that, please check out our previous post on Toyota Vios Facelift Malaysia 2010.

As listed in their website, UMW Toyota Motor maintained the line-up Vios 1.5 (A/T) with TRD Sportivo, G, E, J and Vios 1.5 M/T J.

From all I can see from the photos of the new Vios that been provided. The facelift model gets a new redesigned grille on the front, new headlamp, new rear lamp, maybe a set of redesigned alloy wheels, maybe a new cushion fabric and the most attractive part is a new steering wheel that looks a bit similar to the one on VW Golf GTI! Apart from all the cosmetics works, the technical specification seems to be maintained with no surprises.

UPDATES 16 April 2010 : Toyota Vios Facelift 2010 Malaysia Review – Vios Desirable Click Here !!!

From our insider source, Toyota Vios facelift model will be revealed on this Friday – 16 April 2010. By time, most probably you can view it at your local Toyota Showroom. As part of our commitment towards you, we will keep you update and posted with our first hand information and photos on this Friday.

Meantime, check out our “sneak preview” gallery of MY2010 Toyota Vios Facelift! Yes, this friday!

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UPDATES 16 April 2010 : Toyota Vios Facelift 2010 Malaysia Review – Vios Desirable Click Here !!!

UMW Toyota Malaysia made some updates of the estimated Price List for the New Upcoming Toyota Vios Facelift 2010 that will be launch soon here. The previous estimated price was higher.

I guess due to the pressure of Toyota brand name worldwide, and new competitors such as Kia Forte, Mazda 2 and upoming Ford Fiesta – They decided to reduce the price of the new facelift Vios as compare to the earlier estimated price here.

Refer to the Toyota Vios Facelift 2010 Pricelist compare to the old Vios Pricelist. UPDATED!

Toyota Vios 1.5 TRD Sportivo (AT) has reduced RM990 as compare to the earlier estimated price here.
While the lowest spec Toyota Vios 1.5J (MT) remain the same. The price reported is estimated price from UMW Toyota.

We will update you with more news on the new facelift Vios once we got them!

UPDATES 16 April 2010 : Toyota Vios Facelift 2010 Malaysia Review – Vios Desirable Click Here !!!

UPDATES 12 April 2010 : More Photos on 2010 Toyota Vios Facelift in Malaysia

UPDATES 16 March 2010 : Vios Facelift Malaysia 2010 Updated Price

Toyota UMW Malaysia seems to facelifted the vios and it is coming to your showroom near you real soon.The above image which is from Toyota website give us a little tease about the up coming Toyota Vios 2010 Malaysia version.

The most significant change as we will notice is the front grille, a different style of rear lamp and possible a new design of rims.

UMW Toyota Malaysia will make some adjustment to the price of the new facelift vios.

UPDATES 16 April 2010 : Toyota Vios Facelift 2010 Malaysia Review – Vios Desirable Click Here !!!

Refer to the Toyota Vios Facelift 2010 Pricelist and difference below.

This also means that you can’t get a Vios below 70k anymore, however Toyota might give some discount here and then over time. Do come back to us and we will provide you more info on the New Toyota Vios Facelift version as soon as we have them.