Toyota Innova News in Malaysia

Indonesia’s de facto national car, the Toyota Innova has been crowned the country’s best-selling car of 2023 with 66,459 units sold according to Gaikindo’s sales report. This is followed by the Toyota Avanza (62,275 units) and the Honda Brio (62,008 units). There is a disclaimer for the Innova’s sales figures though as it combined the numbers of both the outgoing rear-wheel drive (RWD) Innova which is only available with a diesel powerplant, and its front-wheel drive (FWD) successor. The FWD Inn

CY Foong

Jan 22, 2024

Over 2.5 million Toyota vehicles have been proudly produced in Indonesia and exported all over the world. This milestone comes after surpassing 2 million units just eight months ago (Feb 2023), and approximately five years after breaching the 1 million unit mark in 2018. PT Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indonesia (TMMIN) has now produced approximately 2,520,754 units spread across its Sunter (Jakarta) and Karawang (West Java) plants since its establishment in 1987, which are exported to nearly 100

Arvind

Oct 24, 2023

UMW Toyota Motor will be launching the all-new 2023 Toyota Innova Zenix later tonight. A countdown timer to its online launch and a registration of interest page is already up on its website. Usually, the introduction of a new generation model would also mean the discontinuation / replacement of the previous generation model. The Toyota Innova could be an exemption to this, if product line ups in Indonesia and India – the two biggest markets for the Innova – is a reliable indication of what’s co

Hans

Jun 21, 2023

Electrified cars in Indonesia are not that quite in demand but data has shown that sales are increasing though hybrid vehicles are a more favourable choice over electric vehicles (EVs) among buyers. Just like Malaysia, Indonesia’s EV infrastructure is more concentrated in urban areas so individual EV model sales rarely breach 1,000 units a month. According to Gaikindo, Indonesia’s best-selling EV in May is the Ioniq 5 which saw 918 units sold and is followed by the Wuling Air with 455 units sold

CY Foong

Jun 19, 2023

Malaysians looking to get the all-new 2023 Toyota Innova Zenix will not be waiting much longer as UMW Toyota Motor (UMWT) has just released a teaser for the most advanced generation of the Toyota 7-seater. The third-generation Innova is planned to make its awaited Malaysian debut on Wednesday, 21-June 2023 and UMWT has put up a registration of interest on its website with a countdown clock to the launch day. In Indonesia, the Innova Zenix is available with two Dynamic Force powertrains – a 2.0-l

CY Foong

Jun 19, 2023

Maruti Suzuki is India’s number one carmaker and in some ways, it is similar to our very own Perodua. However, aside from producing Suzuki models, it has a partnership with Toyota in the subcontinent. This resulted in some Suzuki models sold in India (and South Africa) being offered with a Toyota badge but this Innova Zenix marks the first time a Toyota model is given the Suzuki rebadge in India. Toyota models have been rebadged as Suzuki before outside of India. Europe has the likes of the RAV4

CY Foong

Jun 15, 2023

It’s no secret that the all-new 2023 Toyota Innova Zenix is launching in Malaysia soon. After all, the model has already been spotted on Malaysian streets. Seeing that the model will be imported (CBU) from Indonesia, prices of the all-new, AG10-generation model will be higher than the outgoing AN140-generation one. Also Read: All-new 2023 Toyota Innova to be a lot more expensive - Switching from CKD to CBU Indonesia, starting price above RM 150k? The current AN140 Innova is priced between RM 133

Eric

May 30, 2023

Ever since Toyota debuted the first-generation Toyota Innova back in 2004, the model was locally-assembled (CKD) at the ASSB plant in Shah Alam. However, upon the introduction of the all-new TNGA-C-based 2023 Toyota Innova Zenix, data from Indonesia's automotive industry association GAIKINDO revealed that Toyota Indonesia has exported roughly 200 units of the model to Malaysia back in April, including several units of a curiously-named "H" variant. Further cementing that notion is a set of spysh

Eric

May 29, 2023

UMW Toyota Motor (UMWT) has confirmed that it has two more models to launch this year. In a press statement released by its parent company UMW Group regarding its automotive division’s April 2023 sales performance, it was also said that “UMWT expects demand and sales to be sustained throughout the year, supported by the introduction of new and facelift models.” The new model is clearly referring to the 2023 Toyota Innova, which in some markets like Indonesia, is marketed as the Innova Zenix. UMW

Hans

May 26, 2023

Bigger and more advanced than ever before, the all-new 2023 Toyota Innova which made its global debut in Indonesia six months ago will be launching in Thailand as early as the middle of July according to a report by Headlight Mag. The TNGA-based Innova has been spotted in the Kingdom back in March and sources close to the Thai automotive publication revealed that Toyota Motor Thailand is preparing to launch the third-gen 7-seater by July 2023. Just like the Veloz, the Thai-spec Innova is expecte

CY Foong

May 26, 2023