On the sidelines of the Toyota Vellfire media drives, editor Sirish Chandran caught up with Naveen Soni, TKM's newly promoted senior VP for sales and customer service to talk about the initial response to the MPV. Naveen Soni clarifies that Toyota never even considered theoption of a diesel engine for the Vellfire, preferring to focus on hybrids. He clarifies that Toyota isn't asking for any benefits for hybrids apart from moving to the earlier GST tax structure for hybrids and not to be taxed on par with IC engines as is the case currently. Hybrid technology is one of the main reasons for Toyota's global partnership with Suzuki. The duo also discuss the demise of the Toyota Etios and Toyota Etio Liva and Naven clarifies that the production line left idle will be offered to Maruti Suzuki.