Toyota Australia will launch a sports sedan with a unique locally-developed supercharged V6 engine in the first half of 2007.
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The car will be the production version of the Aurion Future Performance Concept (FPC) shown recently at the Melbourne motor show.
Styled and engineered in Australia with help from local suppliers, the new car will have a sports-tuned supercharged 2GR-FE 3.5-litre V6.
The Aurion line, due out in the second half of this year, replaces the Australian-made Avalon, which was a locally-modified previous-generation version of the car first sold in the US. The Australian model shared the local Camry’s platform (also different from that used in the US).
Toyota Australia has recently decided to build the new Camry – also due out this year – only with four cylinder engines while the Aurion, which appears from photos to be a lightly restyled Camry derivative (apparently identical side window and body crease lines), will get the new V6 both with and without supercharger.
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