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New Toyota Aygo X Hybrid is faster, more efficient and more expensive for 2026

The first customer deliveries of Toyota’s new hybrid city car will begin in January

Toyota Aygo X - front action

We’ve already driven it, but now Toyota has announced pricing and specifications of the new Aygo X Hybrid. 

Available to order from 1 December, the range starts with Icon trim at £21,595, then there’s Design at £23,695 and Excel at £26,045. The highest trim Aygo X Hybrid is the GR Sport, which is priced from £26,895. The timing of the Aygo X Hybrid price reveal is interesting as we’ve just tested its new rival - the Fiat 500 Hybrid, which is predicted to start from around £19,000. 

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Buyers who are willing to forgo the latest model, can currently get discounts of nearly £4,000 on the current Aygo X via our Buy A Car service.

What is the Toyota Aygo X Hybrid? 

The smallest hybrid-powered car from Toyota to date, the Aygo X Hybrid takes over from the outgoing non-hybrid Aygo X and comes with more kit as standard too. Along with the new front-end design, there’s diamond-cut 17-inch alloy wheels, a seven-inch driver’s display, automatic air conditioning, a new recycled seat upholstery and two USB-C ports. Instead of the smallest seven-inch touchscreen found on the base versions of the outgoing Aygo X, the new hybrid gets a nine-inch display.  

On top of this there’s a £500 ‘Convenience Pack’ which adds a push-button start, front fog lights, a wireless smartphone charger and electrically adjustable heated door mirrors. A £600 ‘Parking Pack’ option adds keyless entry plus front and rear parking sensors.  

Toyota Aygo X - rear static

The £1,350 ‘Premium Pack’ option adds a retracting canvas roof and a JBL premium audio system that we experienced earlier this year in the special edition Aygo X JBL

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The Design trim comes with black and diamond-cut 18-inch alloys and those new headlights get LEDs. The convenience pack is also made standard on Design and you also get fabric upholstery with new embroidered X-patterns. There’s additional noise-cancelling measures to reduce road and wind noise as well. 

Excel adds a 10.5-inch touchscreen, heated and perforated front seats and the top-spec GR Sport features tuned suspension, bespoke 18-inch wheels, a new grille, GR-branded seats and a black bonnet. 

When Euro NCAP tested the previous Aygo X in 2022 it scored four stars. We expect this new Aygo X Hybrid might fare better as Toyota has introduced adaptive cruise control, emergency stop, driving assist, pre-collision assist and lane keep assist. 

Performance and efficiency

The big change with the new Aygo X Hybrid is its powertrain. Replacing the old naturally-aspirated three-cylinder, the hybrid sees massive gains to both performance and efficiency. Toyota claims the car will do 78.8mpg on a combined run - far better than the old car’s 56,4.mpg. Auto Express even managed to see 86mpg during the test drive.  

With 115bhp coming from a combination of the 1.5-litre three-cylinder petrol engine and a small electric motor, the Aygo X Hybrid dispatches the 0-62mph sprint in a relatively decent 9.2 seconds - 5.7 seconds faster than the previous generation Aygo X. 

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Senior news reporter

A keen petrol-head, Alastair Crooks has a degree in journalism and worked as a car salesman for a variety of manufacturers before joining Auto Express in Spring 2019 as a Content Editor. Now, as our senior news reporter, his daily duties involve tracking down the latest news and writing reviews.

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