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The Suzuki Swift has been sold in Japan since February 2000, and during this time five Japanese generations have changed, and the Swift Sport version appeared in four of them.
Read articleThe Corolla Fielder is a Corolla station wagon for the Japanese market, which was produced from August 2000 to the fall of 2025 (the end date is according to the catalog) and has changed three generations during this time: E120, E140 and E160.
Read articleThe X-Trail is familiar on both sides of the border: it has been officially sold in Russia for many years, and therefore it is easy to confuse a Japanese car with a Russian, European or Chinese car under the same name in the ads.
Read articleThe Serena is the next size family minivan after the Freed and Sienta, which in the regular versions still fits into a width of 1,695 mm: almost 4.7 m long, eight seats and sliding doors on both sides.
Read articleThe Sienta appeared in September 2003 as Toyota's answer to a simple request: seven seats in the body about four meters long, with sliding doors and a low floor.
Read articleFreed has been sold in Japan since May 30, 2008 and during this time it has changed three generations, and the word "Hybrid" on its body managed to…
Read articleThe Prius is the most famous hybrid from Japan, and it is in its ads that the numbers most often diverge: the same two-liter car of the fifth generation in different sources is both "152 horsepower" and "196", and the same-looking car with 1.8 liters is "98".
Read articleStepwgn has been sold in Japan since May 1996, and over six generations it has changed not so much the purpose itself, but the answers to everyday questions: how many sliding doors, how the rear one opens, where the third row is removed, seven seats or eight, a petrol turbo engine or a hybrid.
Read articleThe Corolla Cross has been sold in Japan since September 14, 2021 and has formally remained one generation all this time.
Read articleThe Fit has been sold in Japan since June 2001, and since then four generations and three different hybrid schemes have changed under one name.
Read articleThe word "hybrid" in the description of Vezel means two fundamentally different installations.
Read articleFrom the very beginning, the Aqua was produced only as a hybrid: it did not have a regular petrol version in any generation.
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