Soft-top echoes the styling of Toyota hatchback

By DAVID LINKLATER

Toyota has developed a cabriolet version of its popular Echo.

The cute drop-top retains the large headlights and curvaceous styling of its tin-top siblings, and manages - at least in this prototype - to combine seating for four and room for the lowered hood within its stubby tail.

Production is a possibility for the two-door, although it would not be likely until the strong demand for the hatchback version of the Echo has ceased in Europe and Japan.