Toyota future models and platforms

Carmaker1

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I wouldn't count on some of this stuff from Just Auto, because OEMs are onto them and give out misleading info to scramble them. I learned the very hard way, even as someone with both limited and (sometimes) unlimited industry access to supplier information, (tentative) model timelines, start of development (often where I guess a design freeze), code words for development landmarks (anytime I see "FAA" on a Ford, it's styling approval of concept and FDJ is design freeze), prototyping stages, and etc. Not to mention, a lot of us industry folk, gossip from time to time, passing along info that should really be kept quiet if competitive knowledge.

Toyota is damn near the hardest to crack, on CONCRETE future info. As even on USA side of things, it can sometimes go either way. One best make sure you have a very central Toyota contact from Aichi, to reliably know anything. The designers on past Lexus models, often don't speak English or are extremely apprehensive to answer questions for me.