Toyota Rangga Idea Debuts As Cute And Customizable Compact Truck

The Toyota Rangga Idea debuted on the Gaikindo Indonesia Worldwide Auto Present as an thought for a multifunctional business car that consumers may outfit in line with their wants. The automaker has the Rangga Idea Cellular Café, Rangga Idea Ambulance, Rangga Idea EV Cellular Service, and Rangga Idea Tempo Automobile to indicate the probabilities of what of us may do with this platform.

Toyota did not launch any technical particulars concerning the Rangga Idea. It additionally did not define the car’s bodily dimensions. Judging by the photographs, this seems to be a reasonably compact mannequin. All the builds have a single-cab physique. 

Toyota says a manufacturing model of the Rangga is coming sooner or later. Nonetheless, the announcement does not say precisely when it goes on sale.

Toyota is holding a contest in Indonesia for folks to create renderings of what the Rangga might be. The automaker provides a template, and artists can customise the car from there. The examples within the gallery above embrace a drift truck and a camper. The creator of the successful design will get the equal of $6,500 (100 million Indonesian rupiah).

When the production-spec Rangga arrives, native upfitters would customise the car to suit a buyer’s necessities. Toyota even has representatives from native conversion corporations on the Indonesia Worldwide Auto Present to debate the probabilities with potential consumers.

Based on Toyota’s car announcement, the identify Rangga takes inspiration from the phrase “Ronggo” within the Javanese language, which refers to a hero and carries connotations of being sturdy and hard.

There’s nothing just like the Rangga out there in the USA. Nonetheless, Toyota is reportedly contemplating whether or not to construct a Corolla-based pickup within the US. It does not but have a inexperienced gentle for manufacturing and would not arrive till 2027 on the earliest if the executives log off on the mission. The compact, unibody truck would compete towards the Ford Maverick and Hyundai Santa Cruz. Meeting might happen alongside the common Corolla in Mississippi.