Toyota · Brevis

Toyota Brevis 1st generation

Years
2001–2007
Drivetrain
FR / 4WD
Toyota Brevis 1st generation

Image: Toyotacoronaexsaloon / CC BY-SA 4.0

Story

Longer and wider than the Progrès, it had triple round headlamps and chrome-look 16-inch aluminum wheels.

Chassis

Length 4,550 mmWB 2,780 mm1,460-1,475 mmHeightWidth 1,720 mm
Curb weight
1,520-1,550kg

Production plants

  1. Motomachi Plant

    Toyota, Aichi

US import eligibility

Earliest cars
Eligible since June 202625 years after sales began in June 2001
Last cars
Eligible during 203225 years after sales ended in 2007 (month not recorded)

Eligibility depends on each car's month of manufacture on its build plate, not on the sale dates shown here (NHTSA).

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Engineers

Soichiro Okudaira

Soichiro Okudaira

Development lead for the tenth-generation Corolla, which he took on as executive chief engineer.

Yasuhiro Sakakibara

Yasuhiro Sakakibara

Hometown: Kosai, Shizuoka Prefecture

A Toyota engineer. After working on product planning for the seventh- and eighth-generation Camry, he became development lead for the Lexus ES and worked on the UX, LM and LBX. He is director of the Toyota Automobile Museum, the first director to come from an engineering background.