How the Innova built Toyota in India | Deep Drive Podcast Ep.75 | Autocar India

Опубликовано 30 августа 2025, 5:30

The Toyota Innova has completed 20 years in India. In this episode of the Autocar Deep Drive Podcast powered by Kotak Mahindra Prime, Hormazd Sorabjee - Editor, Autocar India - and Sergius Barretto - Managing Editor, Autocar India - look back at the model's journey and discuss the brand that's gone from strength to strength.

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Chapters -
0:00 - Introduction
1:54 - Record sales
2:30 - Rewinding to the Qualis
7:46 - Slow seller initially
12:01 - Keeping things simple
17:50 - Selling the Crysta and Hycross together
19:40 - Innova Crysta highlights
21:44 - Price hikes
26:29 - Change of philosophy with Hycross
28:00 - Rivals came and went
29:05 - Reliability is the USP
31:15 - Hycross flex fuel and Innova EV

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