Thanks for the update.
The models I'm most interested in...not a word yet. I'm still trying to find info on the next-gen Land Cruiser, Sequoia, 4Runner, and if there will be a next-gen GX or not.
Otherwise all of the above makes perfect sense, based on the various weird timelines some models are on, and the randomly timed refreshes we've been getting last few years.
Also if TNGA-F applies to both Tacoma and Tundra, that can only mean one thing, and almost fully confirms a hypothesis I've had; that TNGA-F is modular, like other TNGA variants in general.
You're welcome! Unfortunately seems that my newest sources of this information, mostly concern North American Toyota production and nothing more. Japanese development and production information is blockaded with a form of access I don't have, in not being a Japan-based supplier with very specific user access codes or part of Toyota's Aichi personnel. Trying to get around that in deciphering Japanese text as much as possible, makes that even more challenging. There is indeed other information I am leaving out, in it being a little questionable (Sequoia redesign) or too vague for me. I have a learned a lot as of Friday and Saturday though!
Like people tried to call the 2016 LX570 an "all-new" redesign, I am not convinced of a new 4Runner until late 2020 or even 2021. Although 2017 production began at Tahara in December 2016, no one heard much of anything until then officially as
production started. Back in 2009, although people saw spy shots that April, no one heard a lick more about it until September 2009 reveal, AFTER SOP in August 2009.
I had expected a minor-moderate refresh to tide things along on the same architecture, but considering no TSS by 12/31/2017, are they pushing it back to MY2019 instead in order to facilitate a MY2022 redesign? In that case, I actually want to see this TSS report/press release from last year, to be sure if it indeed referred to end of 2017
model year or that of 2017
calendar year instead. I keep hearing that the MY2018 is totally unchanged and feel uncertain.
The 2018 4Runner is called "Carryover", yet so is the 2018 Sequoia. Anyone with eyesight and wasn't born yesterday, will be able to see that the 2018 Sequoia definitely saw some form of changes over the 2007-2017 models. Yet the Tundra is counted as "Minor" and Camry as "New" (quite expected).
As for the GX not getting updated this year, it hardly makes sense to me. Back in 2007, both the Prado and GX got facelifts for MY 2008, 2 years after the N210 (N210 got minor update). They are supposed tied together, so if Prado gets updated, so does the GX? Why wouldn't this be the case. It isn't going away is it?
By August, we should know if it is being kept or not. Why do I say that? Hot weather and high altitude testing for a potential CUV replacement in MY 19 needs to be done and would appear by such a time frame. If one sees a large vehicle in Toyota MC pattern camouflage, then we know what we are looking at (unless they hide their testing). Highly unlikely, as even mules would've been running since last year.
Unless the idea is to introduce a heavily redone GX for Japan in late 2017, then stagger it out to early-mid 2018 for MY2019 in the US, I cannot make sense of no changes to the 2018 GX.
Also, the Land Cruiser 200 gets updated again this year for MY2018 and also the LX. Both another source and UZJ100GXR provided me this information, but he alerted me first of updated 200s. On a 4-year cycle of a major facelift, when such a light update is introduced midway (+2 years), that is essentially saying 2 more years are left for that generation. In 2019, a redesign will debut as expected and bring TNGA for MY2020.
