Toyota Etios and Liva

Toyota Etios and Liva diesels : Road Test

With 1.4 litre diesel engines that also power the Corolla Altis diesel now plonked into the Toyota Etios and Liva twins, ZigWheels brings you the complete road tests of both these extremely practical cars

It's been just a few months since  launched the hatchback version of its Etios sedan and christened it the Liva. Then, the Japanese manufacturer was being extremely tight-lipped of its plans of plonking a diesel engine in either of the Etios cars but that move has finally been taken care of and the Etios twins are now ready to be launched with diesel power. The petrol variants of both the Etios sedan and the Liva hatch came about as extremely practical machines in terms of their setups and space and that has been the USP of Toyota's smallest cars in India.

While the Etios sedan utilised a 1.5 litre gasoline unit arming it with decent performance, the Liva petrol went the excise duty busting way with its 1.2 litre mill. But when it came down to the diesels, both cars get a 1.4 litre D-4D 4-cylinder engine. The mill churns out 68 PS and 3800rpm and 170 Nm and 1800-2400rpm.