The 2020 Toyota Avalon, the fifth generation of the popular mid-size premium sedan marking 26 years of the model’s success, has been brought to Qatar by AAB.
The highlights include the Toyota New Global Architecture platform, a new fuel-efficient 3.5-litre V6 engine and a host of comfort and safety features that are complemented by Toyota Safety Sense.
“The 2020 Toyota Avalon embodies customers’ overarching desire for high-calibre, design-centric, and technologically-savvy modes of attainable and premium transportation,” said a AAB statement yesterday.
Since its debut in 1994 and subsequent evolution over four generations, the Avalon has come to be embraced by people around the world for its ride quality, comfortable and roomy interior space, as well as its high level of quality, durability, and reliability.
The car has established a strong presence in the premium mid-size sedan segment – both in the Middle East and globally – with total sales surpassing 1.5mn units.
Donning a cutting-edge design, Avalon embodies Toyota’s next-generation ‘Under Priority’ brand identity – a direction that prioritises aerodynamic efficiency, cooling, and pedestrian protection.
Stunning all-LED slim projector headlights speak to its sportiness and elegance.
They complement the front end’s design, highlighting the aluminium hood’s longitudinal lines and lightweight build; the wide, modern grilles built for air-slicing sleekness; tangential vents at its lower portion crafted for the effective direction of passing air across the front tyres and along the Avalon’s muscular sides and the door handles that coincide with its profile’s bold character line.
Simple horizontal character lines slice across the back, at the top, centre, and lower portions.
The Avalon’s width, in effect, is highlighted substantially by this distinct sectioning.
Connected LED tail lamps shaped in a three-dimensional, ‘aero fin’ style differentiate the landscape from the current iteration.
They integrate backup, stop, and turn lights into a single harmonious, fluid form.
The new 3.5-litre V6 engine produces a maximum output of 298 hp and 356 N‎m of torque and is equipped with the latest Direct Injection 4-Stroke Gasoline Engine Superior Version (D-4S) and Variable Valve Timing-intelligent Wide (VVT-iW) systems to achieve top-notch power performance, environmental performance, and fuel efficiency.
The VVT-iW system helps the car to ensure high torque in all engine speed ranges and enable the Atkinson cycle to be used.
The engine is also mated to an all-new eight-speed automatic transmission that merges smooth, precise gear selection throughout the RPM range with an alacrity for fuel efficiency and on-demand power.
The revised logic control better matches with vehicle speed, engine speed, and torque engagement, and facilitates poised downshifts.
The 2020 Avalaon is available in eight distinctive exterior colours, including the newly-developed Slate Gray and Blackish Brown.
The interior comes in a total of three colour schemes and with the choice of wood or hydrographic ornamentation depending on the grade.
Furthermore, the 2019 Avalon has been rearmed with a newly-developed 17-inch alloy wheel.
An 18-inch alloy wheel, finished in bright super chrome paint pursuing both a large impression and a high-class feeling, has also been made available.