Toyota's upcoming Mark X Zio: What does it really mean?
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Toyota's upcoming Mark X Zio: What does it really mean?
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Japan Report: Toyota To Produce FSC Concept
Written By: Peter Nunn
Back at the 2005 Tokyo Motor Show, Toyota unveiled the FSC, a good-looking wagon-meets-sedan-meets-minivan crossover concept.
The FSC, low and sleek and with a roomy cabin designed to give off a ‘lounge feeling,’ looked sharp and drew a lot of positive comment from rival designers. Thereafter, its future purpose in life remained a mystery.
Japan’s scoop mafia now has the answer. Toyota will launch the FSC in Japan at the end of September as the Mark X Zio, according to reports circulating in Tokyo.
This genre-blending crossover, a Toyota rival of sorts for Europe’s Opel Signum, will come with 2.4-liter four-cylinder and 3.5-liter V-6 powertrains.
Loosely connected to the Camry, it’ll seat either six or seven and comes to market with only minor visual changes from the FSC show car, although the concept’s fabulously futuristic interior has, of course, been toned down.
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Interestingly enough, the article's text and the proposed model name are sending mixed signals. The purported availability of the 2.4-liter four-cylinder and the "loosely connected to the Camry" remark imply that this is simply one more vehicle sitting on the FWD Camry/Avalon/2nd-gen Highlander/upcoming 3rd-gen Lexus RX platform.
On the other hand, the use of "Mark X" in the model name is a tantalizing suggestion that this may well sit on the RWD Toyota Mark X/3rd-gen Lexus GS platform (with these two sedans even sharing the same wheelbase). If the latter is the case, is it really much of a stretch to see the Mark X Zio as a less-expensive and luxurious, rebodied and smaller-engined version of the rumo(u)red production version of the Lexus LF-X concept to rival the 2nd-gen Infiniti FX?
Japan Report: Toyota To Produce FSC Concept
Written By: Peter Nunn
Back at the 2005 Tokyo Motor Show, Toyota unveiled the FSC, a good-looking wagon-meets-sedan-meets-minivan crossover concept.
The FSC, low and sleek and with a roomy cabin designed to give off a ‘lounge feeling,’ looked sharp and drew a lot of positive comment from rival designers. Thereafter, its future purpose in life remained a mystery.
Japan’s scoop mafia now has the answer. Toyota will launch the FSC in Japan at the end of September as the Mark X Zio, according to reports circulating in Tokyo.
This genre-blending crossover, a Toyota rival of sorts for Europe’s Opel Signum, will come with 2.4-liter four-cylinder and 3.5-liter V-6 powertrains.
Loosely connected to the Camry, it’ll seat either six or seven and comes to market with only minor visual changes from the FSC show car, although the concept’s fabulously futuristic interior has, of course, been toned down.
Winding Road » Archive » Japan Report: Toyota To Produce FSC Concept
Interestingly enough, the article's text and the proposed model name are sending mixed signals. The purported availability of the 2.4-liter four-cylinder and the "loosely connected to the Camry" remark imply that this is simply one more vehicle sitting on the FWD Camry/Avalon/2nd-gen Highlander/upcoming 3rd-gen Lexus RX platform.
On the other hand, the use of "Mark X" in the model name is a tantalizing suggestion that this may well sit on the RWD Toyota Mark X/3rd-gen Lexus GS platform (with these two sedans even sharing the same wheelbase). If the latter is the case, is it really much of a stretch to see the Mark X Zio as a less-expensive and luxurious, rebodied and smaller-engined version of the rumo(u)red production version of the Lexus LF-X concept to rival the 2nd-gen Infiniti FX?
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You're welcome to join the existing FSC thread here, where the point about the Mark X name has already been made.
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=290634
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=290634
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