Toyota is the only Japanese car company to achieve positive growth in November, and this year's successive layout of new products still seems to have a certain improvement to the brand, of course, if there is no chip shortage problem, the increase may be even greater. In addition to filling the gap in the product camp, the update of existing models is also advancing, the new Camry, Highlander, etc. have been pushed into the market, and the new FAW Toyota Asia Dragon has also appeared in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
The most iconic bottle-mouth grille of the Asian Dragon has not disappeared, but the interior is no longer a banner design, the latest dot matrix chrome plating orderly arrangement, the armor style is more imposing, and the internal structure of the LED lights on both sides has also changed, you can see a long daytime light strip similar to the L type, very sharp. The rest of the area has not changed much, and the familiar through-line strip remains, but the exhaust port is hidden.
The new Asian Dragon body length, width and height are 4990/1850/1450mm, wheelbase 2870mm, relative to the current body length increased by 25mm, may be caused by changes in the shape, the internal space will not affect, but as a Camry of the same level of models, the Asian Dragon is larger than the former in size, the new version is getting closer and closer to the length of 5 meters, FAW Toyota for the Chinese this is still in place.
The core power is currently declared to be a hybrid version of oil-electric power formed by a combination of 2.5L engine + electric motor, with a maximum engine power of 131KW, which is expected to match the E-CVT transmission. At present, the outflow of information shows that the overall adjustment of FAW Toyota Asian Dragon is not large, but the interior pictures have not yet flowed out, I do not know whether Toyota will adjust it, and the online score of the Asian Dragon interior is not too high, but the configuration of the new car will be upgraded, and the new model can also be equipped with an optional in-vehicle ETC device.
Asia Dragon completed 93,600 new car sales in the Chinese market in the first 10 months of this year, during which the production line was relocated and stopped for a period of time seriously affected sales, only 2726 vehicles were sold in June, but then recovered relatively quickly, to October The sales of the car reached 12633 units, which shows that it is still quite popular with domestic consumers at the terminal.
It is worth mentioning that in the second half of this year, foreign media have leaked news that after the completion of this generation of models, the Asian Dragon will stop production in the North American market, due to poor sales, it is reported that the north American sales of the car in the first half of the year were only 10328 units, and the performance gap between China and the United States is very large. A large part of the reason is that the US version of the Asian Dragon is overpriced, the hybrid version is priced at $37,000 in the local area, and the price of Lexus's ES is only $42,000, and the gap between the two is not too large, consumers are naturally more willing to choose the latter, and the domestic ES import sales give the Asian Dragon enough pricing space. After the launch of the new Asian Dragon, it should still maintain this hot selling posture.