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Up until a few days ago I, like many others, upgraded to HID lights via a conversion kit...... I had no problems with this, it passed MOT's fine and improved driving visibility 3-fold. But I did have 2 issues.... 1 being that I couldn't use my Auto lights feature as starting the car with the headlights on would cause the HIDS to go out and then not always come back on. Or just one, the right one, would come back on...... And 2, whenever I flashed anyone I had to flash once and keep the stalk pulled back long enough to get the lights to warm up and come on... Usually about 5 seconds. Cos as you know when you flash your high beams the low beams come on as well.. Well since LED's have come on a long way I decided to upgrade to LED headlights....... I chose a set that doesn't require any external ballast boxes or LED drivers as there built into the unit and also fanless ....... I got mine from http://www.horizonleds.co.uk/headlamp-cree-led/4th-generation-cree-led-kits/h11-cree-led-headlight-kit-g4 These are just plug and play... Took me all of 2 minute to install...... The beam pattern is excellent, but then again the Toyota projectors are pretty good anyway. These are just as bright as my HIDS and as soon as I can figure out how to add more pics doing an edit of my post I'll show you.... Lol All in all I throughly recommended these. Just hope they last as long as the HIDS with no problems.....

I can now use my auto lights feature, as the LED bulbs don't even flicker when starting the car, and flash people to my hearts content....lol. P.S. The ballast box in the pic below is from my HID set up..... I haven't removed them yet.... Just in case. I am still in the try out stage... If all goes problem free for a few weeks I will remove all the HID ballasts and control boxes.

Then again, Germany will always favour their own manufacturers.

If you are not doing 11-15,000 miles per annum or more & plan to keep the car for quite a while (say 5+ years) I would strongly consider the 1.8 petrol (the 2.0 had only about an extra 5bhp & slightly worse fuel economy so virtually no difference which is why Toyota UK stopped offering it - it is still available elsewhere in Europe). That is actually what I went out to buy in TR trim (usually the best bang for the buck level, now replaced by Icon) but I got offered a deal on a 2.2 T-Spirit that was too good to pass. As for mpg it will depend upon transmission type, journey type & driving style but ~39-40 according to Honest John's RealMPG. VED is band G so ~£180 iirc. The auto is a CVT rather than a torque converter which may take some getting used to. Don't know if the petrols use the same manual gearbox as the diesels but if they do expect the change into 2nd (going up or down) to be quite obstructive until warm. 1 of the nice things about the petrols is that the engines are lighter than the diesels so the car doesn't understeer as much (although it never will be a sports car).