Toyota final April introduced an funding of $803 million to help manufacturing of two new SUVs at its plant in Princeton, Indiana—one for Toyota and the opposite for Lexus.
All Toyota stated on the time was that the SUVs can be giant, three-row fashions aimed toward younger, lively households, and include electrification and seating for as much as eight.
Citing an nameless supply, Automotive Information (subscription required) reported final week that the Toyota would arrive by mid-2023 and the Lexus about six months later. Given the timing, it is seemingly each SUVs will arrive for the 2024 mannequin 12 months.
The Toyota will reportedly be a long-wheelbase model of the Highlander, to be referred to as a Grand Highlander. The Lexus will reportedly carry the brand new title TX. Each names have been filed for trademark safety with the US Patent and Trademark Workplace.
2022 Toyota Highlander
The brand new SUVs will present households in search of more room than what the prevailing Highlander and Lexus’ stretched RX, the RX L (proven essential), supply.
The plant the place the brand new SUVs can be constructed, formally the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana, is presently house to manufacturing of the Sienna minivan in addition to the Highlander. It is doable the brand new Grand Highlander can be primarily based on up to date model of the present Highlander that is been on sale because the 2020 mannequin 12 months.
Apparently, there are rumors Toyota additionally plans to increase its Crown sedan line offered abroad to embody an SUV in 2023, and that this SUV can be offered within the U.S. It is doable the Crown SUV can be associated to a brand new Lexus SUV to sit down alongside the LS and LC in Lexus’ flagship vary (probably as an LQ). The Lexus LF-1 Limitless idea from 2018 is assumed to preview the brand new Lexus SUV.
Keep tuned for an replace.
