Toyota begins shift to global platform - Automotive News
During the next few years, many of Toyota's cars and crossovers will migrate to versions of the automaker's new modular global platform, starting with the fourth-generation Prius due out this fall. Toyota's extended hybrid family will add another crossover, while its trio of old-fashioned body-on-frame SUVs soldier on. Yaris: Freshened for 2015, the subcompact should be due for a redesign for the 2018 or 2019 model year. At that point, it will switch to a smaller version of Toyota's TNGA modular platform -- dubbed NGA-B -- and finally dump the 1. 5-liter four-cylinder that has been around since 2000 in favor of a more modern iteration of the engine. Corolla: A special edition of Toyota's compact sedan goes on sale this summer, with unique trim inside and out, while a mild freshening should debut in 2016. A wholesale redesign debuts three years later, when the car switches to Toyota's NGA-C... It then will jump to the NGA-C modular platform, swap out the automatic transmission for a continuously variable transmission and possibly offer a 2. 0-liter, turbocharged four-cylinder in place of the V-6 engine option. The hybrid model also will return for the 2018 model year. Source: www.autonews.com
