It'll come with next gen 1.5 litre and 2.0 litre hybrid engines. That's all we know now unless someone picks up a copy of the magazine next month (July 2024) 新型ハリアーには次世代エンジンを搭載し登場！？ 新型車や業界ニュースなど注目情報満載【ベストカー7月26日号】 - 自動車情報誌「ベストカー」
Then they'll go back to big round ones, then square, then triangle, then some other silly shape. Why? Because all cars are becoming the same CUV shape. Look at a car as a silhouette and you won't be able to tell any of them apart. So they have to draw lines on it somewhere to distinguish it from the competition. And using the headlights as accent lines seems to be the popular thing right now. This is probably the main reason I actually like the Cybertruck. It's different. So is the Aptera, and I really like the Aptera. But if I'm getting a new SUV of any sort it needs to be a Ford Bronco.
Japan already has it. Japan’s Toyota Harrier Updated With Plug-In Hybrid Option | Carscoops Spreading the PHEV option to the Rav4 siblings wasn't a big stretch. We'll have to make do with the Rav4 and NX.
The headlights are so much better now that they are LED vs when those old designs existed for normal incandescent headlights. Halogen was the big step improvement, but LEDs as standard give designers freedom to shape the headlights anyway they want. Not a beautiful design in this model but LEDs give freedom to make beautiful or fugly lighting on cars. https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/g6631/ten-cars-with-incredibly-cool-headlights/?slide=15
LEDs will only need replacing in the event of a crash or other damage. A hypothetical, standard sized headlight would start at $20, and likely need replacing every year.
The problem is that if one bulb goes, the entire headlight unit has to be replaced (whether it's the marker light, or one of the many bulbs in the low beam or the indicators). I like LEDs but they need to find a way to make them user replaceable (at least the smaller ones like indicators and side marker lights. Sell the circuit board with however many lights that make up that light position.)
True, but how often does that happen? Then making components easier to replace can make the unit less reliable over all. Batteries inside the phone allow the whole unit to be less susceptible to damage from water and dust.
Well, we would hope so. They might start dying once engineers figure out how to make them as cheaply as possible for them to last "just long enough" which in many cases might not actually be long enough. While quit different from things like engines and transmissions, It does seem that things are often designed to last "just long enough" any more. Sometimes manufacturer's cut it too close and the next thing you know you have to replace it much more often than should be necessary. Toyota generally isn't like that, but sometimes I do wonder about where they're headed as far as quality goes.
The Toyota Crown is also available as a PHEV in Japan, but not here. If it was, that'd be a serious contender for me.
True. While I have seen entire units fail, turn yellow or just missing pieces (on the late 2010 cars with several of those large LED bulbs for DRLs like Audi or Nissan). It is very rare. Crown Sport. We don't get that model (yet).
Yes, this is a problem with the car designers not the technology. This is evidenced by the fact that aftermarket LEDs can replace older headlight, indicator light, and daytime running light technology.
