Thursday, May 21, 2009



The Volta uses a carbon-fiber body and seats three. In the case of Volta, the three people sit side-by-side—and get this—the “drive-by-wire” controls allow you to position the steering wheel and pedals in front any one of them.Innovative layout for sporting performance Toyota furnished to Italdesign-Giugiaro a derivative of its ultimate hybrid system, the one adopted on the Lexus RX 400.The dragon-fly winged doors are upward hinged in the front riser. Ample aeration in the grill design, slanting lamps fitted in the fender motive on an upper plane to the “aquiline” route followed by the bonnet’s center point. On the Volta, the 3.3 liter V6 petrol engine is fitted behind the rear axle and not connected directly to the wheels.But the more prestigious performance captured by this compact supercar, 4.3 meters long and less than 2 meters wide – emphasizes Fabrizio - is most certainly its capability to cover 700 km at highway average speed with a 52- liter tank.
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Exterior styling of the Toyota Volta is quite powerful, the bonnet of the car flows into the windscreen with little change in the angle, this gently curving line continues back until an abrupt end at the rear of the Volta which cuts down sharply.Also for the Volta, Italdesign-Giugiaro went beyond the shell, utilizing its testing and engineering department to design the carbon fiber chassis, the push-rods and the mechanisms regulating pedal/steering column block traslability, whilst its prototyping construction workshops to finailize the styling model and operational prototype.