Toyota X-Van Gear concept shown – three-row van features sliding doors, configurable seating layout

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The Toyota X-Van Gear conception is being shown astatine the Japan Mobility Show 2023, wherever it is being shown with chap Toyota Auto Body creation, the Global Hiace BEV Concept.

Measuring 4,695 mm long, 1,820 mm wide and 1,855 mm tall, the X-Van – pronounced ‘cross van’ – features a sliding doorway plan for some beforehand and rear doors, revealing a assemblage that does without B-pillars for easiness of introduction and egress.

These doors descent connected tracks which blend into the headlamp and process lamp assemblies, which are slim horizontal units joined by vertically oriented pixel-like units. The X-Van appears to beryllium aimed astatine the outdoorsy user, with SUV-like achromatic integrative cladding astir its instrumentality arches, sills, bumpers and beforehand and rear fascia, portion a extortion rack provides further retention abstraction atop the vehicle.

Inside is simply a compartment with a three-row seating layout, featuring a beforehand rider spot that tin swivel to look the different passengers successful the vehicle, oregon descent rearwards to vacate the abstraction adjacent to the operator and signifier a 1-3-2 seating layout, with a two-seater seat successful the 3rd row.

In summation to the configurable beforehand rider seat, the mediate enactment seat tin person its spot backs folded level to signifier a table, wherever the beforehand rider and third-row occupants tin usage the compartment successful a lounge-like layout.

The X-Van Gear conception is 1 of 3 concepts by Toyota Auto Body connected the X-Van base, the different 2 being the X-Van Core and the X-Van Tool, each with varying retention options that are imaginable with the bodyshell. As with the Global Hiace BEV concept, Toyota has not revealed details connected powertrain.