Toyota’s largest SUV, the Sequoia, will develop bigger and way more refined with enormously improved gasoline financial system and elevated driver-assistance and expertise options as a part of a sweeping redesign onto the automaker’s new F1 world light-truck platform.
The makeover, its first in additional than a decade, ought to permit the Sequoia to raised compete towards massive body-on-frame SUVs such because the GMC Yukon, Jeep Wagoneer and Ford Expedition.
The redesigned 2023 Toyota Sequoia, set to reach in dealerships late this summer time, was proven late Tuesday to journalists in Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif. The three-row, body-on-frame SUV will come customary with the model’s new iForce Max hybridized powertrain — debuting this yr on the Tundra full-size pickup and engineered particularly to enhance energy and torque as a substitute of simply gasoline financial system.
The iForce Max powertrain produces a most 437 hp and 583 pound-feet of torque from its twin-turbo V-6 engine and 10-speed computerized transmission, and the brand new mixture will give the Sequoia an improved most towing ranking of 9,000 kilos, up 22 % from the present model.
Toyota offered simply 8,070 Sequoias within the U.S. in 2021, up 9.6 % from 2020. By comparability, GMC offered 84,242 Yukon and Yukon XL fashions in 2021, up 33 % from 2020, whereas Ford offered 81,988 Expeditions, up 5.3 %.
Although fuel-economy rankings for the 2023 Sequoia will not be out there for months, Toyota guarantees they are going to be enormously improved from the present 4×4 model’s 14 mpg mixed determine and be extra aggressive with section leaders, together with the GMC Yukon (17 mpg mixed) and Ford Expedition (19 mpg mixed).
Contained in the cabin, the 2023 Sequoia receives main upgrades, highlighted by the inclusion of a regular 8-inch or non-compulsory 14-inch infotainment contact display that runs the brand new Toyota Audio Multimedia system, developed in-house in Texas and being rolled out throughout the model over the following a number of years.
Toyota additionally paid shut consideration to the Sequoia’s third-row seating, including a recline function in addition to a sliding operate that enables the third-row seats to maneuver fore or aft as much as six inches.
Toyota is also introducing what it is calling an adjustable cargo shelf system to the 2023 Sequoia. With the third-row seats folded down, a detachable shelf could be set in quite a lot of storage positions relying upon the state of affairs, the model defined. The shelf additionally offers the Sequoia a flat, if raised, load ground behind the first-row seats that gives extra utility when not carrying passengers.
By way of security, all variations of the 2023 Sequoia will come customary with Toyota Security Sense 2.5, which incorporates dynamic cruise management, lane-departure alert with lane centering, a pre-collision system with pedestrian detection, blind spot monitoring, entrance and rear parking help and rear cross-traffic alert.
Toyota is recalibrating the Sequoia’s trim stroll partly to fill among the void left within the lineup by the Land Cruiser’s departure this yr, slotting the model’s new Capstone trim above the earlier Platinum prime grade. Capstone will journey on customary 22-inch chrome rims and have Walnut inside inlays and a number of exterior chrome accents, in addition to customary energy operating boards.
“Our main design purpose for Sequoia was to create a complicated but robust and lively life-style SUV that appears able to dealing with a variety of massive journey wants,” Kevin Hunter, president of Toyota Motor Corp.’s North American design studio, Calty Design Analysis, stated in a written assertion. “That holds true whether or not it is a evening out in town with pals, towing a ship to the lake with household or taking a extra excessive off-road journey.”
The redesign permits Sequoia to spice up its towing chops. An non-compulsory Tow Tech bundle, which incorporates digital aids to again up a trailer, is out there throughout all trims and customary on TRD Professional and Capstone variations.
Pricing particulars for the 2023 Sequoia weren’t introduced. Sequoia manufacturing is being moved this yr from Toyota’s meeting plant in Princeton, Ind., to a Texas truck plant in San Antonio, the place it should share an meeting line with the Tundra.