Toyota set for new-model onslaught
Seven due models due in the next 12 monthsChances are you won't recognise a Toyota showroom 12 months from now, with the car maker tipped to release seven new models in the coming year.
Fresh after the launch of the just-released FJ Cruiser retro four-wheel-drive (pictured), the company is due to introduce updated or all-new versions of several key models.
An updated Hilux is due in July or September, followed by an all-new Yaris hatch in September (the sedan will continue in its current guise).
In October, the new generation of the locally-made Camry four-cylinder petrol sedan arrives, ahead of the hybrid version early next year. The new generation Aurion V6 will follow in March.
"It's an exciting road ahead, we have a lot of new model activity," Toyota Australia's executive director of sales and marketing, David Buttner, told the Carsales Network.
"Typically when you have a lot of new models or updates, they drive a lot of sales. But while we will get these cars over the next 12 months, we probably won't see the true impact [on sales] until the full year 2012 is up."
By the end of 2012, the Corolla small car and RAV4 compact softroader will also be due for replacement. But Toyota would not confirm if those models will arrive in Australia in 2012 or 2013.
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