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Recently, it has been reported that FAW Toyota will launch a new MPV model this year. The new MPV or GRANVIA,GRANVIA is a large commercial MPV model launched by Toyota in overseas markets. According to the plan, the new car will be included in the Crown series, becoming the third product after Crown Wilfa and Crown Lufang. The car is expected to be officially released this year.

It is understood that Toyota Granvia is a luxury commercial MPV model launched for markets such as Asia and Europe. Toyota Granvia took the lead in overseas launch in 2019. Toyota Granvia overseas version is based on Toyota HIACE, with 5300/1970/1990mm body length, width and height, 3210mm wheelbase, positioning large commercial MPV models. Compared with Guangzhou Auto Toyota's American version of Sena SIENNA, Toyota Granvia has a lot of room for overseas version.

Toyota Granvia Australian version

At present, the relevant details about the domestic version of the new MPV have not been released, so the information on the new car is very limited, and it is not possible to determine whether the model will be directly introduced into overseas models. Some industry insiders pointed out that from Toyota's two-car strategy in China, the new car is probably only using the name of overseas models, but it is actually a sister model of GAC Toyota Sena, and the car will have Chinese characters. According to the relevant trademarks previously exposed, the domestic GRANVIA has a good chance of being the new product codenamed 018D, and it has been reported that the car is called "Willow", so the new car is likely to be named "Crown Willow".

The Crown, a high-end model owned by Toyota, was officially launched in 1955 and stopped production in April 2020, but after that, FAW-Toyota's Crown also re-launched in another form and launched two new cars. The two new cars are the Crown Wilfa and the Crown Lufang mentioned at the beginning of the article.

On July 15, 2021, FAW Toyota announced that Crown became its high-end flagship brand, and its Crown Wilfa and Crown Lufang were also officially launched. among them, the Crown Wilfa price range is 83.9-920000 yuan. While Crown Lu went on sale on August 27, 2021, the vehicle price range is 27.58-350800 yuan. FAW Toyota Crown Lufang and Guangzhou Automobile Toyota Hanlanda are sister models. Crown Lufang is based on TNGA-K platform, positioning medium-sized SUV, if not unexpected, with the passage of time, the launch of the new MPV model will become the third model of FAW Toyota Crown family.

In addition, with the layout of the "two-car strategy", FAW Toyota has officially released news that the first model of Toyota's bZ series, bZ4x, will be officially launched to the Chinese market this year. Toyota bZ4x is based on e-TNGA architecture, positioning medium-sized pure electric SUV, and will adopt a dual-car strategy model in the future, that is, the car will be domestically produced and sold by FAW Toyota and Guangzhou Automobile Toyota respectively.

According to Toyota's official plan, Toyota will achieve its target of selling 3.5 million electric vehicles a year by 2030. At present, Toyota's products in the field of pure electric vehicles are very limited, with only two EV models made by C-HR EV and Guangzhou Automotive Aion S in the domestic market, which also means that Toyota will launch more new products, thus accelerating Toyota's market share expansion.

FAW-Toyota's cumulative retail volume in 2021 was 846299 vehicles, while Guangzhou Auto-Toyota's cumulative retail volume was 840396 vehicles, according to FIFA data.

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