As Toyota executes “the quickest ramp-up that we have ever had for a multimedia system,” it’s going to overhaul the electronics on the Corolla Cross subcompact crossover after simply its first yr in the marketplace, and extra nameplates will probably be upgraded briefly order.
Between the Toyota and Lexus manufacturers, the automaker expects 20 nameplates to be geared up with the brand new multimedia system this yr. Toyota has plans to roll it out throughout each lineups over the subsequent three years, although there could possibly be “one or two area of interest automobiles” that take longer to equip.
“Usually, that may have taken us 5 to eight years to get this out, based mostly on the transform cycle,” Zack Hicks, chief digital officer of Toyota Motor North America, mentioned throughout a media roundtable final week.