Toyota Yaris Cross B-Segment SUV launched May 15, 2023 in Indonesia – Perodua D66B coming?
Toyota has sent out media invites to the Indonesian media about the launch of the new product on May 15, 2023, which is next Monday. The media invite refers to the world premiere of “Toyota’s New Urban Cruiser Icon”.
We believe this is most likely a new B-segment SUV between the Toyota Raize (A/Perodua Ativa segment) and the Toyota Raize. Toyota Corolla Cross (segment C) products. It may be called the Toyota Yaris Cross, but it won’t be related to the Yaris Cross being sold in Europe, instead it will be built on the same DNGA platform as the Toyota Vios (known as the Yaris Ativ in Thailand).
We are aware that there is another DNGA platform product in development that is close enough to launch and that it has undergone crash testing but has not yet been released. This is because a table included in Daihatsu’s ‘notchgate’ press release mentions a model in development that has not yet been launched but has undergone crash testing.
We also know that Perodua is developing a product codenamed Perodua D66B, has long been rumored to be a larger SUV than the Perodua Ativa. Rendering of a ‘Perodua Nexis‘, one of the names Perodua has trademarked in the past went viral around the end of 2022 and was made by @idiyaz.cg based on the Toyota Yaris Cross for the European/Japanese market.
So what will be launched on Monday is likely a new Toyota B-segment SUV, based on the Daihatsu DNGA platform, which will be sold by Perodua as the Perodua D66B at some point in the future. future. The Perodua D66B could also be the first Perodua to mass-sell the e-Smart Hybrid system used in a rental-only Perodua Ativa Hybrid.
As mentioned earlier, Toyota has many B-segment SUV products used in different markets:
first) Toyota Yaris Cross
This is the Toyota Yaris Cross for the European market, which has won the World Urban Car of the Year 2022 award. It’s an expensive “first world” Euro/Japanese model based on TNGA-BE instead of DNGA-BUCK.
2) Toyota Urban Cruiser HyRyder
This is a B-segment SUV sold in India, but it’s not based on DNGA-B or TNGA-B. Instead, it is built on the platform Suzuki shares with the Suzuki Grand Vitara.
When will Perodua D66B be released?
This could be anyone’s guess. If we look at the final DNGA-based SUV launch timeline, Toyota Forklift was launched in Japan at the end of 2019, but Perodua Ativa was only launched in March 2021, so the launch time of the two products is about 1.5 years apart. However, the new one 2023 Perodua Axia was launched at the same time as its Daihatsu and Toyota brothers.
In any case, we don’t think the Perodua D66B will be launched this year as two new models in one year is unlikely to happen with the Perodua. Meanwhile, if you have a little more budget than what the Perodua Ativa will take up, you can expect Honda WR-VA instead of.
