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Toyota Announces Sequoia, U.S.-Built Full-Size Sport Utility Vehicle

20 October 1999

Toyota Announces Sequoia, U.S.-Built Full-Size Sport Utility Vehicle

    TORRANCE, Calif., Oct. 19 -- Toyota Motor Sales (TMS),
U.S.A., Inc., announced that the name of its all-new U.S.-built full-size
sport utility vehicle (SUV) will be Sequoia.
    Scheduled to go on sale in the fall of 2000 as a 2001 model, Sequoia will
be based on the Toyota Tundra full-size pickup truck.  It will feature the
same i-Force V8 engine that powers the Toyota Land Cruiser and Tundra.
Sequoia will be built alongside Tundra at the Toyota Motor Manufacturing,
Indiana production facility.
    Jim Press, TMS executive vice president, announced the name to journalists
attending the Tokyo Motor Show at a press conference on Tuesday.  Press said
Sequoia represents strength and longevity.  It will join Toyota's wide range
of SUV's, including the compact car-based RAV4, the mid-sized 4Runner and the
full-size Land Cruiser.
    Additional details on Sequoia will be announced at a later date.