Here’s something you don’t see often - the tax disc from a car in road tax Band A.

And those zeros are exactly how much it costs for a year’s road fund licence.
You won’t be entirely surprised to learn that the disc above is from the iQ we drove in our recent hypermiling attempt, but you [...]

Most of us have a fairly good grip on reality, and no-one with a penchant for nineties sci-fi films could be unaware of virtual reality: a totally computer-simulated environment.
And then there’s augmented reality, which aims to combine the two.
iQ might still be a rare sight on British roads, but there’s little doubt it exists. We’ve [...]

We know from our recent economy attempt that iQ doesn’t feel like a small car to drive, but there’s no doubt that it is a small car on the outside.
With the designers having made the most of every bit of space, you might think there’s precious little left to protect occupants from the dangers of [...]

Prompted last November by ‘car-tist’ Andy Saunders‘ sale of 11 of his works, we wrote about art cars.

BMW’s collection of art cars grew from a single BMW 3.0 CSL entered into the 1975 Le Mans 24-hour race, and now stands at 16 cars - with a 17th said to be on the cards.
Now, four of [...]

It turns out that screensavers have a home, and it’s Belgium.
At least, it is when it comes to iQ.
Last year we spotted a Mac-only screensaver that played on iQ’s security system, using the MacBook’s motion detectors and remote control to mimic a car alarm. This turned out to be the work of Toyota Belgium, who’ve [...]

Back in October last year we spotted Toyota Japan’s iQ Paint Contest.
Now, videos showing up on YouTube have alerted us to a new competition; the iQ Visual Mix Contest.

Sadly our Japanese hasn’t got any better over the past four months, but the idea seems to be that entrants grab soundtracks and footage from the competition [...]