Just my two cents but once they kill the Crown crossover sedan in the states because it’s selling worse than the Avalon it replaced, they’ll likely move the Hybrid Max engine over to the Camry in some trim level that will be “sporty”.
They can’t introduce it now because it will essentially be already admitting they failed with the Crown crossover way too soon, so they’ll wait for a few more months of sales to pull the plug and then will possibly tease a sportier Camry.
I think they get slept on exactly because of the association Jaguar has with reliability (or lack thereof). The real highlight of the Jaguar warranty should be the unlimited mileage part. But that’s great to hear you haven’t had any issues. I do wonder if they’re much more reliable than their Land Rover brethren.
Well for starters, I don’t think you’re calculating in the sheer bulk amount that Apple buys their components in.
Apple sells more than 200 million iPhones per year. I’ll say that again: Apple sells over 200 million iPhones in just one year. Samsung sells over 250 million phones per year. Compare that to the largest car manufacturer Toyota which sells around 10 million cars per year. There is definitely a reduction in cost when you’re buying your components at such a large amount.
I would then say that car manufacturers approach the supply chain a bit different than your average tech company. They usually pick out a particular part and use it for many, many years before switching or upgrading. This is usually done because the part not only becomes cheaper over time, but it helps with the service side as well. It’s easier to fix parts under warranty when you have a particular part that’s been in production for years versus trying to chase down a part that was only produced for a couple of years.
It’s likely that backup cameras will become a lot better in these next couple of years are infotainment systems are upgraded with bigger/higher definition screens.
Man this source has so many things wrong I’m not even sure it could get anything right.
For starters, Toyota never unveiled plans for a “1,000 mile battery”. It was plans for a 1,000 km battery which is 621 miles and that is going to be made possible with a bipolar battery technology they hope to have by 2028.
This is notably different from the solid state batteries that they are teaming up with Idemitsu on and have always had problems with getting to mass production.
So the source mixed up the solid state batteries with the other battery tech that Toyota has been working on and didn’t even get the range right.