Featured Toyota acknowledges some negative bZ4X feedback

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    Price might still be too high for the specs.
     
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    A good start:

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    YouTuber The Car Care Nut is not too impressed with it, and he’s a Toyota Master Mechanic.

     
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    The Gen-1 was not all that good. But the Gen-2 had legs. Sounds like Toyota might put the A-team on it.

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    But this was their second attempt. The first was the UX300e that was released in Europe and China. It had the exact same criticisms as the bZ4X gets now; too expensive for the EV performance.
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    Some will cry "but that is an EV conversion of an ICE model". Well, that is all eTNGA is, an ICE platform tweaked for bigger batteries. The bZ4X is as close to the Rav4 Prime as the Rav4 hybrid to the US Venza.

    Toyota did have a revelation that thear plan to use an ICE platform for EVs isn't working with the speed the market progressing. maybe the third try will be on a dedicated BEV platform.