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Toyota Century SUV
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Toyota Century SUV
Looks like the rumours are true and there will be a Toyota Century SUV, as this was spotted testing in Japan. Almost Genesis-esque with the double lighting elements but will likely be in single housings like the Century Sedan. Going to be riding on the updated GA-K platform most likely.
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Not sure what it could have other than RX500h powertrain really. Unless they somehow carry over a legacy 450h setup of V6 but it's highly unlikely. Had they actually decided to make a RWD SUV like Limitless then they would have had a chance to transfer LC500h setup. Anyway I guess they want to commercialize Century brand as well and have it on top of the chain that looks something like this Rav4 > Kluger > Harrier > Crown > RX > Century
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Just realized that this also has the "two lines" headlamps and tail lamps like a Genesis lol.
The platform it sits on is the FWD GA-K which has never had anything bigger than a naturally aspirated 6-cylinder put inside of it. And since Toyota is phasing out their V6 and replacing it with their turbo 4 and hybrid variants of in all future GA-K models, it is almost a guarantee that this will also be a turbo hybrid 4-cylinder. In fact I bet this thing under the skin is identical to the Grand Highlander.
The platform it sits on is the FWD GA-K which has never had anything bigger than a naturally aspirated 6-cylinder put inside of it. And since Toyota is phasing out their V6 and replacing it with their turbo 4 and hybrid variants of in all future GA-K models, it is almost a guarantee that this will also be a turbo hybrid 4-cylinder. In fact I bet this thing under the skin is identical to the Grand Highlander.
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Cant get it, cant afford it, love it. Its bad enough they built it on a pedestrian platform instead of the GAL so I do hope they reinforced the heck out of the structure. Otherwise it will be a shuddery $150k embarassment.
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Weird choice of using a V6 from last Gen RX and putting a plug-in plus e axle.
They could have at least used the RWD hybrid V6 from the LC and LS.
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https://toyota.jp/pages/contents/request/webcatalog/centurynewbt/centurynewbt_main_202309.pdf
