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Toyota is coming hot on the heels of major US market announcements and introductions like the N400 Tacoma, returning 2024 Land Cruiser, plus the all-new 2025 Camry, 4Runner, and Crown Signia. But they're thirsty for more, of course.
The Japanese automaker just updated the 2025 Crown to heat things up, complete with the new Nightshade Edition. The rumor mill also believes that, in addition to the crop of mildly updated and thoroughly refreshed 2025MY nameplates, some reveals will also fall into the 'all-new' or 'first-ever' category. For example, everyone and their mother expects Toyota to buff the 2025 or 2026 Corolla compact series plus announce an all-new RAV4 compact crossover SUV.
These two are some of its global best-sellers so that the company will treat them with utmost passion and confidence – but they will also feature a big research and development process. On the other hand, not just compacts are on Toyota's mind. In fact, the Japanese company recently charged up the investment and job categories in the US manufacturing industry with a planned $1.4 billion investment at its Indiana plant to bring there up to 340 new, sustainable jobs and the production of an all-new battery-powered electric vehicle.
The Princeton facility has been around since 1996 and currently builds the Lexus TX plus Toyota Sienna, Highlander, and Grand Highlander models – all family-oriented vehicles with up to three rows. The upcoming BEV is also a three-row model, and the SUV will probably leave the factory sometime in late 2025 or early 2026 after Toyota finishes work on the Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina, a $13.9 billion facility slated to begin production in 2025 – as it will supply Indiana's new battery pack assembly line with lithium-ion batteries from North Carolina.
Naturally, the rumor mill and the imaginative realm of digital car content creators have kicked off the speculation game regarding what's coming from TMMI. For example, Vince Burlapp (aka vburlapp on social media or burlappcar.com) is a prolific virtual artist who loves to dream of all the latest models across the wide-ranging automotive realm, and based on the available information, the pixel master believes the new three-row all-electric SUV could be a variant of the Highlander or Grand Highlander lineage.
The name relationship is simple and logical – Toyota has another three-row EV crossover scheduled for production in Kentucky, but the CGI expert believes that one is going to be produced using the same skateboard architecture or an updated platform as used in the current bZ4X. Meanwhile, the TMMI model will use a traditional chassis-based production format, allowing the facility to integrate it neatly alongside the Lexus TX, Highlander, Grand Highlander, and Sienna on the same premises.
Of course, the author also comes up with a speculative rendering of the potential Toyota Highlander or Grand Highlander EV – something that mixes the current Highlander styling with the DNA of the bZ4X to create a vehicle that would be hard to miss as part of the automaker's separate EV lineup. So, would you buy one if it looked like this?
These two are some of its global best-sellers so that the company will treat them with utmost passion and confidence – but they will also feature a big research and development process. On the other hand, not just compacts are on Toyota's mind. In fact, the Japanese company recently charged up the investment and job categories in the US manufacturing industry with a planned $1.4 billion investment at its Indiana plant to bring there up to 340 new, sustainable jobs and the production of an all-new battery-powered electric vehicle.
The Princeton facility has been around since 1996 and currently builds the Lexus TX plus Toyota Sienna, Highlander, and Grand Highlander models – all family-oriented vehicles with up to three rows. The upcoming BEV is also a three-row model, and the SUV will probably leave the factory sometime in late 2025 or early 2026 after Toyota finishes work on the Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina, a $13.9 billion facility slated to begin production in 2025 – as it will supply Indiana's new battery pack assembly line with lithium-ion batteries from North Carolina.
Naturally, the rumor mill and the imaginative realm of digital car content creators have kicked off the speculation game regarding what's coming from TMMI. For example, Vince Burlapp (aka vburlapp on social media or burlappcar.com) is a prolific virtual artist who loves to dream of all the latest models across the wide-ranging automotive realm, and based on the available information, the pixel master believes the new three-row all-electric SUV could be a variant of the Highlander or Grand Highlander lineage.
The name relationship is simple and logical – Toyota has another three-row EV crossover scheduled for production in Kentucky, but the CGI expert believes that one is going to be produced using the same skateboard architecture or an updated platform as used in the current bZ4X. Meanwhile, the TMMI model will use a traditional chassis-based production format, allowing the facility to integrate it neatly alongside the Lexus TX, Highlander, Grand Highlander, and Sienna on the same premises.
Of course, the author also comes up with a speculative rendering of the potential Toyota Highlander or Grand Highlander EV – something that mixes the current Highlander styling with the DNA of the bZ4X to create a vehicle that would be hard to miss as part of the automaker's separate EV lineup. So, would you buy one if it looked like this?
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