Hot on the heels of last week’s success at the ETA Green Car Awards, Toyota has picked up two awards for its fuel-efficient engines. The 2010 International Engine of the Year jury has named Toyota’s Hybrid Synergy Drive powertrain as the ‘Green Engine of the Year’, while the 1.0-litre VVT-i engine found in Aygo, iQ and Yaris has won ‘Sub-1.0 Litre Engine of the Year’ for the fourth year in a row.

It’s a sign of the innovative iQ’s success that, two years on from launch, it’s been named overall winner at the Green Car Awards 2010. On the way to winning the main prize, Toyota’s smallest car also claimed first place in the city car category, while the Yaris D-4D took top honours in the supermini class.

The results from this year’s J.D. Power and Associates/WhatCar? Vehicle Ownership Satisfaction Study (VOSS) are in, and it’s continued good news for Toyota. Not only did Aygo and Yaris achieve top ranking in the VOSS City Car and Small Car (Yaris equal top ranked) categories, Toyota also scored the highest rating for the Ownership Costs section, which covers issues such as fuel consumption, insurance and the cost of servicing and repairs.

The MPG Marathon came to a finish yesterday evening with some very significant results achieved by the Toyota vehicles.

This morning we heard from former MPG Marathon winners James Sutherland and Richard Hill of Peak Performance, who are in the Yaris.

The ‘greatest economy driving test of them all’, the MPG Marathon, is taking place today and tomorrow. Toyota has sent a veritable fleet of vehicles - a new Prius, an iQ and a Yaris - to race across the Midlands in a bid to achieve second-to-none fuel consumption.