Toyota Allion, Is this really an All-in-one car ? - Vehicle Reviews with Riyasewana (English Sub)

Today through "Riyasewana," we've brought you the car, Toyota Allion 260. This specific car has been manufactured in 2014. Toyota Allion is a well-known car in Sri Lanka. In 2001, this car came to the market as a replacement model for Toyota Carina. We all know that Toyota Carina is an amazing car. Toyota TI My Road is one of my favorite cars. The Allion came as a replacement model of that. Toyota Premio is the twin brother of this. The Premio came as a replacement model of Toyota Corona. Both c

ars are very similar to each other. These two are the same but have a small design differences at the exterior and the interior. If not, both are the same. The name Toyota Allion has come to this car based on the phrase All-in-one. It means that this is a package of everything including reliability, affordability, options, comfort, and space of the car. This car has been manufactured to give all those features as a single package. The twin brother of this Premio has been manufactured based on t

he word premium. So, we can see more premium features in Toyota Premio than this. These two are the same, as I told you earlier. Talking about the generations, this car has only two generations yet. We can see the first generation from 2001 to 2006 and the second generation from 2007 to 2021 for about 14 years. To manufacture the same car for 14 years, how good a car is this? There are minor changes during this time. But they manufactured the same car from 2007 to 2021. Coming to the models o

f the car, there are several facelift models of this. Although we can see the same car for 14 years, we have several facelift models. We could see the free facelift model from 2007 to 2010. It was the first model that came under the second generation. After that, we could see the first facelift model in 2010. And in 2016, we could see the second facelift model. Today we are here with a car of the first facelift model. Let's talk more about this car. I'm Chanuka with the "Riyasewana" YouTube cha

nnel, making your vehicle dreams a reality. Coming to the engine compartment of the Allion, this has a 1.5-liter inline 4-cylinder naturally aspirated petrol engine named 1-NCFE. Apart from that, we can see 1.8-liter and 2-liter petrol engines in Allions. The Allion is similar to the Premio. Talking about the power of the engine, it generates a maximum of 109 Horsepower at 6000 rpm and also a maximum of 141 Nm torque at 4200 rpm. This car has a CVT gearbox. It is not an automatic gearbox. So, t

he power delivery of the car is very smooth. It doesn't give any sporty feeling. The Allion is a car that focuses on luxury side and comfort. Talking about the capacity of the fuel tank, this car has a fuel tank of about 60 liters. If we make the tank full, we can go on a long trip with this car. We don't need to top-up the fuel tank frequently. We can get about 18-20 km per liter, talking about fuel efficiency. It depends on the way how we drive the car. If we are going on long trips without

hills and valleys, we can get 18-20 km per liter. This car has amazing fuel efficiency. If we drive the car in an urban area, it decreases by about 10 km per liter. It is my personal experience with a car like this. Talking about the service cost of the vehicle, it is around 25000 rupees. It is because for the last service of this specific car, they have spent around 25000. The cost is like that. It depends on the oil that you use and the service center. Those are the things that we have to tal

k about the engine compartment. Let's go to the exterior of the car. Coming to the exterior of the Toyota Allion, we can see a familiar outlook. If we look from the left side of the car, we can see a nice headlight design. This car has blackout headlights from the factory. As there are LED headlights, we can get a huge light in the dark. This specific light has only come with the first facelift model. We can't have this in the free facelift model. Below that, we can see a nice mesh like this. T

here are small vents but the whole one is without vents. Then we can see the foglights. There is a nice design like this. Under the car, we can see the same color as it. Apart from these small parts, we can see the same color on the bumper of the car. We recommend attaching transparent stickers to the bumpers like this. It is because the paint can be damaged by sand coming from the front vehicle. It is a small piece of advice from us. You can see transparent stickers in sticker shops. Then the p

aint is not get damaged. Coming to the center, we can see a nice grill. We have a grill with chrome and mat finish. Although this has a sporty design than the Premio, this car is closer to the luxurious than the sports side. It is so nice. You can see the vents here. Those are the things that we have to talk about the front. Coming to the side view, we didn't talk about the ground clearance. This car has a ground clearance of about 160 mm. It is an amazing ground clearance to a Sedan car like t

his. Here we can see that the car has 15-inch rims. If we want, we can fix aftermarket alloy wheels. If we want a grand look than this, From the factory, we get 15-inch tires. Talking about the suspension, there is a Mcpherson suspension system at the front, and a torsion beam suspension system at the rear. Compared to the first edition came in 2007, the suspension of this car has been increased. It has been tuned to increase the comfort. As I think this absorbs well. This model stays at the fr

ont with the comfort. Talking about the brakes, front wheels have ventilated disc brakes. This car has good stopping power. The rear has drum brakes. But all four wheels have a 4-way ABS. If you want to brake the car immediately, the car doesn't slip. This car is steady than the cars that doesn't have 4-way ABS. Coming to the backward, we can see the winker mirrors in the same color as the car. When the key is in our hands, we can unlock the door automatically by touching like this. If we want t

o lock this, we can use the remote. If not, we can use this button to lock the car. The door opens to a good range like this. There is enough space to get into the car easily for the driver. The rear passengers also can get into the vehicle easily. We'll see the interior of the car later. Coming to the rear, we can see a nice headlight like this. This model is the first facelift model as I told you earlier. The rear lights are different than the free facelift model. We can see line lights in fre

e facelift model. In Sri Lanka, we called this model as the flower light model. Then everyone knows about the model that we are talking about. It is because we can't see a light like this in the second facelift. Here we can see the model of the car. There is a chrome badge and a chrome stripe to the boot. We can see a nice design like this. We can see two reflectors on the two sides. This car is very nice and we don't have any shortcomings. We can't see the exhaust in this car. It has been hidd

en. So, we have a clean look at the rear. Coming to the boot of the car, we can open it by using the button here. If not, when we press the boot button on the key, the boot opens automatically. Then we can easily open it by using a finger. Talking about the boot, we have got a massive boot area. This car is a mid-size Sedan. We have a massive space at the back. When we go on a long trip, we can put everything that the family needs. Coming to the inside, there is a high boot lip. If we put some h

eavy things inside, then we have to lift it to get it outside. We can't get it by pulling because there is a high boot lip. But we have a massive space without any issues. We don't have a tire repair kit in this vehicle. We don't have any compartments in the two sides because there is no repair kit. Here we have a full-size spare wheel. By lifting this aftermarket carpet, we can see the tire and the tool kit in the compartment. We can change the tire in an emergency. This is not a full-size tire

but a spare tire. Those are the things that we have to talk about the boot. Let's go to the interior and see how it is. Coming to the inside of the Allion, we can see the standard Allion interior. This interior is the same for any Allion car. We can see minor differences. This is the same for the Premio also with minor differences. According to the trim level, the year, and the facelift, some parts may be different. As this is a car of the first facelift, we can see a wooden trim throughout th

e car. We can see the wooden trim throughout the car including the steering wheel and doors. We have an interior with a mixture of bach and ash colors. This is more colorful and lighter than the black interiors. I like this interior very much. If I start from the right, we can see the chrome door handles. We can get a luxurious feeling. This is plastic. It is metal with a plastic cover like this. We have power shutters for all four doors. We have the auto option. So, we don't need to press heavi

ly to open the shutter. When we press it once, the shutter goes down automatically. We have the auto option for all four shutters. Usually, we see this option only for the driver in most of the cars. Below that, we can see a stylish door handle like this. It is more stylish than a typical door handle. We have good enough door bins like this. We can put a water bottle of about 500 ml. Also, we can put documents or any other thing. We have speakers at the front two doors, and the rear doors. This

car has a well-balanced sound system. It is not a fancy sound system like BNO or JBL. This has crystal-clear sounds with the Toyota sound system. Coming to the right, we can see the mirror controls. We have buttons for automatic mirror controls. There is a start-stop button. We have the push start option in this car. When we press the button by footing the brake and keeping the key in our hands, the car gets started automatically. We can see a nice gauge cluster in this vehicle. I love analog an

d digital mixed gauge clusters personally for some reason. Analog parts give a premium look to any car. We can see the indicators throughout the gauge cluster. There is a digital screen at the center. We can see the information about the gear, fuel level, temperature, and mileage. Coming to the steering wheel, we have got a multi-function steering wheel. We can control the infotainment screen using the buttons on the right. We can control the multimedia system. It is not an infotainment screen

but a multimedia setup. If we want, we can change it to an aftermarket setup. With that, we can answer or decline the calls, change the radio stations, search radio stations, and change the track or the volume. We can change the mode, FM, TV, or CD from the buttons on the left. With the buttons on the right, we can control the gauge cluster. We can handle different menus. We have options like that. We can't move the steering wheel forward or backward. We can only adjust it up or down with the l

ever here. By putting the lever down, we can adjust it. We can take the steering wheel to the right place and fix it. Coming to the AC, we can manually control them very easily. Below that, we have the multimedia screen. As it is an aftermarket part, I don't talk about it. Then we can have the AC controls. They are direct. So, anyone, even an elder or a child, can easily control them. It is because they are explained well. We can see the auto and fan options. We can change the fan speed or the m

ode. We can change the ventilation modes and the temperature. Below that, we can see a few storage areas. When we open this, we can see a small storage area. You can put your phone or wallet there and close it. Then we can't see them. So, it is nice and clean. When we open the compartment here, we have a cigarette disposer. Here we have a 12v power outlet. We can use it as we want. Considering the gear lever, we can see a gear cover here for its safety. We have a ship lock button. We can change

the gears like this. It is easy. We can handle it easily. We can put it to the driver, the sport, the p, neutral, reverse, or front modes. It is easy to handle. Coming down, we can see the wooden trim here. Here we have two storage areas like this. We can put two bottles there. We can put water bottles of even one liter. We have a massive space. Also, we can put any other. Moving backward, we can see a centered armrest. When we open the armrest, we can see another storage area. We can't have any

USB or AUX cable here. We don't have such options here. When we close the armrest, we have a good enough space to put our arms. We can adjust this as we want by moving forward or backward. In this car, we can't have the electric seat option. But we have very comfortable seats. We have aftermarket seat covers in this specific car. You can notice that they are very comfortable even for the neck when we fix seat covers. Talking about the glove compartment, you can see a massive space. We can have

a good enough space to put the license and the insurance documents. Those are the things that we have to talk about the interior. Apart from that, we have a massive space. You can see how much space that I've got as a driver. I'm very comfortable without packing. Allion is a car that we can go to any distance comfortably. Coming up, we can see sun visors like this. If we want, we can put them down. On that, we have a mirror. When we open that, we have the light here. Then the light comes to the

mirror. If we make the hair or see something on the face, we can see them well with the mirror. It is a nice option. Not only for the driver but also for the passenger, we have that option. At the center, we have a reading light. It switches on automatically, when we open the door. It doesn't switch on at once. It switches on gently. So, this is closer to the luxurious. We can have very soft items like that throughout the car. When we open a storage area, it doesn't open once. They open gently.

There are nice options that we don't notice in this car. The things that we don't see in usual vehicles. Those are the things that we have to talk about the front interior. Let's go back and see how the condition is. Coming to the rear seats of the Allion, we have a massive space here. I put the driving seat backward as much as I can. But I have a good enough space. We have a good enough legroom and headroom. There's no more to talk about the space. From the right, we can see the same wooden tr

im on the doors that we saw earlier. It is so nice. We have a stylish door handle. We can see the speakers and the door bins to put a water bottle of about 500 ml. Also, there is more space to put some other thing. We can't use the space here because of the seat covers. But there is a separate space on the seat cover. There we can put anything we want. But the space is less than the original space. You can see that even one in the middle can easily go without any issues. The hump is not much big

. It is in a considerable amount. So, someone can go easily in the middle. There is an armrest in the middle. We have to open the cover like this to get it, as there are aftermarket seat covers. After that, there you can see two cup holders. We can put a cup or a bottle there. Those are the things that we have to talk about the rear. We have a massive space. This is very comfortable and we can see outside well. We can go on a journey comfortably. Recently, I went on a trip about 500km with a Pre

mio. As both are the same, it is also very comfortable car. There is no bad. Those are the things that we have to talk about the rear. Let's drive the car and see. When I start to drive this Toyota Allion, it's a car that has good visibility. Although the hood of the car is long, we have an idea about where it is with the seating position of the car. If we take the car close to a wall to park it, we can take a good idea about the front space. Also, we have clear side mirrors. They are in a good

position. So, we can see the back. Also, the middle mirror gives a good idea about the vehicles at the rear. This is a car that has clear visibility. Talking about the seating position, it is very comfortable. We can go any distance with this car without any difficulty, as I told you earlier. The seats also help that. Some cars have the electric seat option. In the latest cars than this, we can see the electric seat option. But we can't have that in this car. We can adjust the driving seat and t

he passenger seat manually as we want. We have a good enough steering wheel. But we don't have paddle shifters. As I told you earlier, this is closer to the luxurious than the sporty cars. This car is a good passenger vehicle. Apart from that, we can get a good idea about the length and width of the car even to a person who drives this for the first time. Those are the things that I have to talk about driving. When we drive the car, we can see that the eco light is switched on. It means that th

e fuel burns well. So, we can get a good mileage from this car. If we drive that car so that the light is switched on, we can get good fuel mileage. We have a clear reverse camera to reverse the vehicle. It can be changed according to your multimedia setup. This is a mid-size Sedan. According to Sri Lankan conditions, this is a full-size Sedan. This is a big car. But we can easily handle this. The acceleration power is at a good level. Talking about the power delivery of the car, this has a good

enough torque to overtake a vehicle. We can get a maximum of 141 Nm torque at 4000 rpm. We can get it quickly when we accelerate this. This car has a tuned or responsive engine. This is a superb car for long journies because of the comfort that we get here. I think this is the best car for anyone to go on a long journey. I'm going to take a U-turn here. I want to turn this. Let's see how the turning circle is. This is a wide road. So, there were no issues. If we take a car like Hatchback, the t

urning circle of this is less. But we have a good enough turning circle to turn this car easily at any place. This car has that advantage. This is a nice car. The main advantage of this car is if you buy this, then no need to be scared. But you have to be careful when purchasing because there are some cars with huge faults. We can't say that it's free of faults. But there are faults very rarely in cars like Allion or Premio. The cars of this specific generation have come from 2007 to 2021. They

have manufactured the same car from 2007 to 2021 for 14 years without any change. During those 14 years, we could see minor changes. The steering wheel and the trim have been changed. They gave the option of electric seats with the time. Apart from that, they didn't change the car. There is a saying that if there are no faults, then no need to make changes. The same car came 14 years without any change. The sales figures for the car also didn't change. Although they have modified the car from ye

ar to year, the sales figures for the car was on the same level. When it was 2021, it had decreased with the presence of new models. But this is a famous car that has good sales figures among the people. Don't forget where the heritage of the car came. This model came from the Toyota Carina. This model is the replacement model for Toyota Carina. We know that Toyota Carina is a timeless car. Even today, I look when I meet a Toyota Carina. TI Carina My Road is one of my favorite cars. The replac

ement model of that can't be bad. This car has a good heritage. This car has the same genes. So, this is a nice car. There is nothing to be scared of. If I have to give a verdict for this car, I recommend that Toyota Allion and Premio cars can be purchased and used fearlessly. I don't need to say that because we can see on the road how people love them. We can see so many cars on the road. Not only in Sri Lanka, but also all around the world, we can see a Premio or an Allion. According to the ma

rket, it depends whether it is a Premio or an Allion. There are only Premios in some markets and only Allions in some other markets. But in Sri Lanka, we can see both. Those are the things that we have to talk about the driving of the Allion. See you again with another vehicle! I'm Chanuka with the "Riyasewana" YouTube channel, making your vehicle dreams a reality.