Toyotas of the future should be lighter, quicker, cheaper to build and better to drive, according to Mitsuhisa Kato, member of the Toyota board. Unveiling a new platform strategy, which will underpin all new Toyota models starting with the next generation Prius in 2015, Kato said it was intended as a way of “making ever better cars.”
The new Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA) is a response to the wave of safety recalls which have engulfed the company’s products in the last decade as well as increasing competition from Japanese rival Honda and stiff competition from Ford and GM in the US.
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