Toyota Auris Hatch, E150

A Corolla wearing a hatchback body, which means it is dull to drive and remarkably difficult to break.

Overview

The E150 is the hatchback Toyota Auris, built 2007–2012 and facelifted in 2010. 2 standard engines are documented here, each with its own issue list, inspection sequence and price band. Asking prices across the standard range run €1,450–€4,600, and 0 of the 2 carry a risk level of 4 or 5; the facelift cars sit at a premium over otherwise identical pre-facelift ones. The 1.6 Valvematic 1ZR-FAE is both the cheapest way in, from €1,950, and the lowest-risk engine of the range, which makes it the obvious starting point. Prices are illustrative placeholders rather than a sourced market sample. See the methodology.

Body stylehatchbackProduction2007–2012
Platform siblingssold in this body onlyFacelift (LCI)2010
What changed at the 2010 facelift
Revised nose and trim; Valvematic petrol engines introduced. The engine changes are the ones that matter, a car built in the changeover year can carry either engine, so check the engine code on the block rather than the registration date.

Engine matrix: pre-facelift, 20072009

The 2 variants sold before the 2010 facelift. Power and years come from the variant records; prices are illustrative, not sourced.

2 of 2
BadgeEngineFuelYearsPowerTorqueRiskIssuesPrice bandGood buyVerdict
2.0 D-4D1AD-FTVdiesel20072009126 PS310 NmR22€1,550€4,200€2,100BuyView
1.6 Valvematic1ZR-FAEpetrol20092009132 PS160 NmR10€1,450€3,900€1,950BuyView

Engine matrix: facelift / LCI, 20102012

The 2 variants sold from the facelift on, priced at a 9% premium over the pre-facelift car.

2 variants from the facelift on, carrying a real market premium of roughly 9% over an otherwise identical pre-facelift car. Variants appearing in both tables were sold either side of the changeover, the build month decides which one you're looking at, not the model year.

2 of 2
BadgeEngineFuelYearsPowerTorqueRiskIssuesPrice bandGood buyVerdict
2.0 D-4D1AD-FTVdiesel20102012126 PS310 NmR22€1,700€4,600€2,300BuyView
1.6 Valvematic1ZR-FAEpetrol20102012132 PS160 NmR10€1,550€4,250€2,100BuyView

Market availability varied by country; check the engine code stamped on the block rather than the badge on the boot. · Compare every engine side by side →

Model-year availability

Which engines were on sale in which year, from the year ranges in the variant records. Availability varied by country.

Variant070809101112
2.0 D-4D 1AD-FTV
1.6 Valvematic 1ZR-FAE

● full year · arrives or leaves mid-generation. Years from 2010 in the accent colour are facelift (LCI) cars. Verify the engine code, not the model year.

Rating map, price against risk

Good-buy price plotted against risk level for every standard engine, so the value corner is visible at a glance.

Every standard engine in the chassis, plotted at its good-buy price against its risk level. Cheap and low-risk is the top-left; expensive and fragile is the bottom-right. M cars are excluded, they would stretch the price axis and tell you nothing about the rest.

cheap · low risk€1.9k€2k€2.0k€2.1kR1R2R3R4R5good-buy price →risk ↓1.6 Valvematic 1ZR-FAE: Buy, risk 1, good buy €1,9501.6 Valvematic2.0 D-4D 1AD-FTV: Buy, risk 2, good buy €2,1002.0 D-4D
Buy / strong buy Buy with conditions Caution / avoidLeft is cheaper, up is safer. The top-left corner is where the value is.

Prices across the range

Where the money sits across the whole chassis. Every figure here is an illustrative placeholder, not a sourced market sample.

Every standard engine on one euro axis: the bar spans the 10th to 90th percentile of asking prices, the tick is the median and the green marker is the good-buy figure. GR cars are excluded; they sit an order of magnitude above the rest.

Cheapest good buy€1,9501.6 Valvematic 1ZR-FAE
Median good buy€2,100across 2 engines
Dearest good buy€2,1002.0 D-4D 1AD-FTV
Full range€1,450€4,600P10 to P90

Every standard engine · cheapest first · 1.6 Valvematic 1ZR-FAE highlighted as best value

€2k€3k€4kGood buy
1.6 Valvematic 1ZR-FAE€1,9502.0 D-4D 1AD-FTV€2,100

at or under the good buy · good buy · median · bar spans the 10th–90th percentile

Chassis-wide issues, every engine inherits these

Faults recorded against the bodyshell and running gear rather than one engine, so every variant on this page inherits them.

Written once against the chassis and shown on every variant page below, so nothing here is repeated 2 times: GR cars included, since the bodyshell and electronics are shared.

Buying summary

Our read on the chassis, built on the records above rather than added to them.

Buy the petrol. The chain-driven Valvematic and VVT-i fours have nothing expensive recorded against them, which is the entire reason to choose this car. The 2.0 D-4D is the safer of the diesels and still needs the right journeys for its filter. Many were driven gently by careful owners, so a full history is common and worth insisting on.

Cheapest and dearest in this chassis

The ends of the range by good-buy price. Useful for sanity-checking anything you're quoted.

Lowest entry price

1.6 Valvematic 1ZR-FAE : from €1,450, risk 1

2.0 D-4D 1AD-FTV : from €1,550, risk 2

Lowest risk

1.6 Valvematic 1ZR-FAE : risk 1, good buy at €1,950

2.0 D-4D 1AD-FTV : risk 2, good buy at €2,100