The Japanese automaker has found enough time to prepare a tidal wave of novelties this year for the automotive markets is most fond of. But do you think that's enough? Nope, not at all.
Consider this. Toyota introduced so many novelties solely across the US auto market that I am a bit afraid to make a list because I might forget some of the most critical models. But even with stuff like the first-ever Grand Highlander, all-new N400 Tacoma, returning 2024 Land Cruiser, and the 2025 Camry or Crown Signia, the imaginative realm of digital car content creators still thinks it's not enough to let the company rest for the holiday season.
Instead, the parallel universes of vehicular CGI are pretty much boiling with anticipation for what's next to come – from potential Stout revivals to fight the Maverick and Santa Cruz to the next-gen 4Runner and from a reported compact Land Cruiser FJ to sports car rebirths of the MR2 and/or Celica variety. Some venues, on the other hand, prefer to think about what happens next with the current models.
And the good folks from the AutomagzPro channel on YouTube have some AI-assisted CGI thoughts about an all-new variant for the compact Corolla Cross – they have a fixation on assuming that Toyota will thoroughly update the new compact crossover SUV for the 2025 model year, even though it arrived on the US market quite recently, for the 2022MY and 2023MY as a Corolla Cross Hybrid, respectively.
On this occasion, though, they are coordinating their efforts not just with the resident pixel master for the upgraded styling that aims to streamline the compact CUV and make it look like one of those ritzy yet impractical coupe-SUVs but also with the hypothetical powertrain department as the host explains that Toyota may very well welcome a third option into the Corolla Cross lineup alongside the ICE-powered and hybrid options – a fully electric variant. Just in case you think that's not valid, they also have the alternative of an RAV4 EV, by the way.
As for alternative ideas, the good folks over at Q Cars think they have unofficially revealed the 2025 Toyota Corolla Cross Hybrid, the "most anticipated compact SUV." Well, although it doesn't look like their renderings, the Corolla Cross Hybrid already exists in the real world, and the 2024 model year starts from $27,970 with S, SE, Nightshade, and XSE trims – all of them are motivated by a 2.0-liter electrified unit churning out a combined output of 196 hp.
So, what do you think – is Toyota ready to update the Corolla Cross and its Hybrid variants so quickly down the model's cycle? And if they refresh it, will they introduce additional powertrain options like an electric version, considering they already have the bZ4X on sale as a compact EV crossover SUV?
Aurel has aimed high all his life (literally, at 16 he was flying gliders all by himself) so in 2006 he switched careers and got hired as a writer at his favorite magazine. Since then, his work has been published both by print and online outlets, most recently right here, on autoevolution. Full profile
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