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Toyota's tiny, barebones IKEA pickup could be its most versatile ever (12/2025)
https://newatlas.com/automotive/toyota-imv-origin-modular-pickup-concept/The IMV stands for Toyota's long-running "Innovative International Multi-purpose Vehicle" platform (but you new that, right?) It features "deliberate incompleteness."
One of the most interesting concepts revealed at this year's Japan Mobility Show was also one of the simplest. It was even buried within a big, bold Toyota Group press conference in which flashier reveals dominated the world's attention. And while it may not be as posh as a rare Rolls-Royce-level ultra-premium brand or as highly coveted as a tiny Land Cruiser, the IMV Origin concept is potentially one of the most versatile vehicles Toyota (or any automaker) has ever built. Stripped down to the absolute barest of minimums, the flatbed truck (if you can even call it a truck) packs up like furniture so it can be built and upfitted on arrival for all kinds of work and lifestyle duties.
We wouldn't have previously imagined it possible, but the IMV Origin concept, officially billed as a truck concept aimed at rural Africa, takes a step backward from the IMV 0 concept Toyota revealed in 2022. It's a simpler blank canvas that welcomes even more modular upgrading possibilities. We suppose you could say "Origin" rolls the clock back to "sub 0" level.
The IMV Origin is so stripped down, it doesn't even really look like a truck so much as some kind of specialty factory vehicle ... but that's the whole point The IMV Origin is so stripped down, it doesn't even really look like a truck so much as some kind of specialty factory vehicle ... but that's the whole pointToyota
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"The first idea was: We will ship this vehicle from our production plant unfinished," Koti Sato, Toyota president and CEO, explained at the Japan show press conference. "This vehicle leaves its plant before it is ready to be driven. It is the local people who assemble and complete it."
We wouldn't have previously imagined it possible, but the IMV Origin concept, officially billed as a truck concept aimed at rural Africa, takes a step backward from the IMV 0 concept Toyota revealed in 2022. It's a simpler blank canvas that welcomes even more modular upgrading possibilities. We suppose you could say "Origin" rolls the clock back to "sub 0" level.
The IMV Origin is so stripped down, it doesn't even really look like a truck so much as some kind of specialty factory vehicle ... but that's the whole point The IMV Origin is so stripped down, it doesn't even really look like a truck so much as some kind of specialty factory vehicle ... but that's the whole pointToyota
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"The first idea was: We will ship this vehicle from our production plant unfinished," Koti Sato, Toyota president and CEO, explained at the Japan show press conference. "This vehicle leaves its plant before it is ready to be driven. It is the local people who assemble and complete it."
Engine? Looks electric from what's NOT there.
I had some fun with electronic kits.
Not car kits.
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