Toyota did great during the first quarter of 2024 across the US automotive market - it's hot on the heels of GM, which slipped by 1.5% on the account of very low fleet sales, with a big increase in deliveries to over 565k units.
Compare that to a total of 594,233 units during the first three months of the year for General Motors, and it's clear that the Japanese automaker might overcome its archrival if the latter doesn't act fast. As far as it is concerned, Toyota is ready for primetime with the best-selling RAV4 crossover SUV more popular than ever – it came in third after Ford's F-Series and Chevy's Silverado during Q1's Top 20 best-selling nameplates with a huge surge of more than 47%.
Then there's also the eternal Corolla compact series of passenger cars (10th), along with the ever-popular Camry (7th) – which is showing no signs of slowing down even though Toyota has an all-new model lined up for the 2025 model year, complete with exclusive and enhanced hybrid power. The truck lineup also looks better than ever – the big Tundra and Sequoia, the returning 2024 Land Cruiser with heritage-inspired looks, plus the N400 Tacoma mid-size pickup truck, and the recently announced 2025MY sixth generation 4Runner, which is landing across nationwide dealerships later this year, during the fall season.
Toyota will certainly seek to keep up the momentum with more introductions aside from the 2025 4Runner, Camry, and Crown Signia. As far as the imaginative realm of digital car content creators is concerned, the good folks over at the AutoYa info channel on YouTube have unofficially imagined the CGI looks of the unannounced 2025 or 2026 Sequoia facelift because they believe it's next in line for a series of upgrades – even though the third-generation XK70 Tundra full-size pickup truck appeared in September 2021, a few months before the January 2022 reveal of the XK80 Sequoia's related third iteration.
Alas, probably triggered by the SUV-mania at Toyota provoked by the 2024 Land Cruiser and now the 2025 4Runner, the host decided to instruct the resident pixel master to come up with the subtle changes unofficially thought to be reserved for the 2025 or 2026 Sequoia – restyled headlights, redesigned grille and bumpers, fresh taillight styling, and a modified steering wheel plus new climate control area inside the cabin. Well, it remains to be seen if they were spot-on with the potential modifications, so take all these renderings with a pinch of salt, as nothing has been official from Toyota on the matters just yet. On the other hand, the CGI expert does paint a nice Sequoia TRD Pro picture with the channel's traditional reel of potential color combinations. So, which is your favorite of the digital bunch?
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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