Category: City Cars 
Price Range: £10,495 to £11,615
Clever packaging; a more flexible engine; premium feel.
Noisy engine; too expensive; tries too hard to be something it's not.
Although the 98bhp engine adds cruising ability, Toyota's city car doesn't need it when you consider the higher purchase price and greater running costs.
Toyota has been daring, yet innovative in developing the clever iQ, but this new, range-topping model troubles us.
Known as the iQ 3, it's the highest-specified and most expensive iQ money can buy. It also has the largest capacity engine in the little car's range - a 98bhp, 1,333cc four-cylinder petrol motor familiar in its larger siblings, the Yaris and Auris.
The idea is to give the iQ more in the way of long-legged cruising ability even though it's a 3+1 (three main seats and an occasional jump seat) city car that's not much bigger than a Smart car. Toyota wants to appeal to potential iQ owners who frequently use motorways and drive out of town.
So is the iQ 3 an intelligent enough car to fulfil Toyota's intentions, or is the Japanese car maker guilty of wishful thinking?
