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For the domestic high-end MPV market, the market is not big, joint venture models in addition to Buick's GL8 and Honda's two MPV, there are basically not many hot models. In spite of this, Toyota brand still occupies a high number of MPV models in China by virtue of Elfa, Senna and other MPV models without a joint venture.

Although Toyota Senna is a MPV model aimed at the North American market, with the introduction of the model in China and the sale of it by parallel import, it has been one of the top 10 parallel imported cars in China in 18 and 19, which also shows that the model has a certain domestic market.

It is worth noting that, according to the latest official news from Toyota, the model will be made in Guangzhou Automobile Toyota in 2022, and production work has begun in Guangfeng, which means that the price will be further reduced at that time and compete with the domestic joint venture MPV model.

Although the realization of domestic new cars will not be on the market until next year at the earliest, Toyota has released an official map of its new models a few days ago. Judging from the published information, the new generation of Sienna is developed based on the TNGA-K platform and adopts a new design style in the appearance part, making the overall temperament younger and more aggressive.

From then on, the Seine official map released shows that the new model has indeed undergone earth-shaking changes. The front face adopts the latest Toyota family design, which is more similar to its Asian dragon as a whole, and the slender middle net connects the Tomahawk headlights. In addition, the exaggerated lower air intake grille also makes the whole car appear fuller.

The new car has also made great changes in the side design, in addition to the continuation of the generous MPV style, the new car is more like the design of the new Halanda, from the side "lightning" lines to the rear, all feel like a stretched Halanda model, the whole is very muscular. As for the tail shape is more textured, a variety of line designs seem to reveal the feeling of Lexus.

It is worth mentioning that Toyota also launched a sports kit for Senna, the classic smoked sports kit + red paint to make the car more sporty, but it has to be said that this is only a household MPV model.

In terms of interior decoration, the new Senna adopted the family-style popular central control LCD screen design, and changed the file from the cash attached to the central control design to the sedan car design, which reduced a certain amount of space visually, but for a household MPV model, Senna still used the central control gear to make a hollowed-out design, so that there was a large storage grid design under the platform, and the space performance was considerable.

In terms of power, the new Sienna will use the same 2.5L hybrid system as the RAV4, with a combined maximum horsepower of 246hp and a front drive. The new car also offers the E-Four electronic all-wheel drive option.

Perhaps for the current Senna model, some netizens feel that its interior is too pragmatic, and it is still a bit difficult to challenge Buick GL8's high-end commercial MPV market, unless Toyota makes a certain upgrade to the Sena model to make it have a certain business positioning, otherwise its competitors are mainly household Odyssey and other competitors.

In any case, the domestic MPV market is big or small. Although Buick GL8 is still strong in the domestic high-end MPV market, with more and more domestic joint venture MPV models on the market, there may be a certain dilution effect on GL8 sales.

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