BMW and Toyota last week declared a brand new collaboration that may see the German automobile maker exchange its small-capacity diesel engines for access to the Japansese manufacturer’s hybrid data.
The automobile manufacturers will work along on lithium-ion battery development.
Toyota Australia presently offers diesel engines solely in its hardcore 4WDs, the Prado and LandCruiser, furtheras its business vehicles like the HiLux ute, however the corporate desires to increase compression-ignition drivetrains to its traveller cars and car-based SUVs.
Toyota can primarily use BMW’s one.6-litre and a pair of.0-litre turbo diesels to assist boost sales in Europewherever diesels account for quite 0.5 the market.
The company’s Australian subsidiary is additionally hoping the engines to be offered domestically, whereversales of diesel-powered vehicles still grow.
“If they were offered to Australia we'd take [the diesel engines] of course,” says Toyota Australia’s companymanager of product coming up with, Greg Gardner.
“We square measure progressing to expand our vary of diesels and SUVs over ensuing few years.
“[For Toyota] this can be a short-run answer to resolve a selected want. in fact European [diesels] tend to be manuals, wherever Australian consumers like automatics.
Gardner lists the coil little automobile and Camry medium automobile (pictured higher than in just-released new-generation form) as 2 obvious candidates for diesel power, whereas stating there’s a RAV4 diesel already out there in Europe that may additionally attractiveness.
Specific details concerning the BMW engines haven’t been free, however CarAdvice understands the one.6-litre turbo diesel is that the 82kW/270Nm unit found within the mini Cooper D further because the new 1-Series and 3-Series.
This engine itself could be a detuned version of BMW’s a pair of.0-litre turbo diesel that may be the secondgiving to Toyota.
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