Toyota reportedly operating on luxurious Century SUV

The Toyota Century is incessantly known as a Eastern Rolls-Royce, and it is going to quickly have a Cullinan similar.

Eastern outlet Best possible Automobile Internet stories Toyota has an SUV counterpart for its iconic flagship sedan in construction which might be introduced this yr.

It’s going to merely be known as Century SUV, and gross sales will reportedly start round twelve months from now.

Best possible Automobile Internet has printed anticipated dimensions of round 5.2m lengthy and 1950mm vast. The longest LandCruiser 300 Collection is 5015mm lengthy and 1990mm vast, whilst the Tundra-derived Sequoia introduced in North The united states is 5286mm lengthy and 2022mm vast.

The opening stories the ultra-luxury Century SUV will probably be introduced with a three.5-litre hybrid V6 powertrain and “four wheel drive that drives the rear with an e-axle” (translated), suggesting it is going to use an eFour set-up as with different all-wheel force Toyota hybrids just like the RAV4.

Just like the RAV4, it’ll use a front-biased all-wheel force device and a transversely fixed engine, with anticipated outputs of 220kW from the petrol engine and 59kW from each and every electrical motor.

Toyota recently makes use of a three.5-litre hybrid V6 simplest within the rear-wheel force Lexus LS500h and LC500h, however the sort of powertrain has prior to now been used within the entrance/all-wheel force Lexus RX450h and in another country variations of the Toyota Kluger.

Toyota additionally provides a three.4-litre twin-turbo V6 i-Pressure Max hybrid within the Tundra and Sequoia.

The Century sedan, against this, makes use of a 5.0-litre V8 hybrid just like the previous Lexus LS600h, and is to be had solely with rear-wheel force. All 3 generations of the conservative Century have used rear-wheel force.

Whilst a entrance/all-wheel force Toyota SUV with Century badging can be a surprising flip of occasions, there’s some precedent.

The most recent era of Crown has shifted from a conventional three-box sedan with rear-wheel force to a entrance/all-wheel force car with a high-riding fastback frame, regardless that a sedan is coming.

Toyota has additionally carried out the Crown title to each the Kluger crossover and Vellfire other folks mover in China.

Best possible Automobile Internet expects the Century SUV to be priced round 10-15 million yen (A$109-164,000). For reference, a Century in Japan begins at simply over 20 million yen (A$218,720).

The Century is offered solely within the Eastern marketplace, the place it’s well liked by high-level executives and executive officers in addition to the Emperor of Japan and is produced in restricted volumes.

Introduced simplest thru make a selection Toyota dealerships, it’s incessantly completed in black with wool fabric upholstery.

Century generations have a tendency to closing a couple of many years. The primary Century, which used a V8 engine, used to be offered from 1967 to 1997 and the second one, which upgraded to a V12, used to be offered from 1997 to 2017.

A Century SUV wouldn’t be the one time an automaker has leveraged a longtime passenger vehicle nameplate for an SUV, with the Ford Mustang Mach-E and the rumoured, upcoming Corvette SUV.

Producers lengthy identified for simplest providing sports activities vehicles have additionally ventured into the SUV marketplace, together with Ferrari, whilst stalwart luxurious manufacturers like Bentley and Rolls-Royce have additionally evolved SUVs.