Recently, the news of the Alphard overhaul is more and more, you should find that the news about toyota Vellfire is almost no, according to earlier news, because the sales performance of this car in Japan and overseas is not very good, so in the big facelift plan Zhongyuan factory canceled it, and why is this?
We all know that alphard and Vellfire are actually twin brother models, in addition to the different design of the two cars are similar, of which Alphard is mainly stable and expensive, while Vellfire is mainly young and handsome, so both sides actually have their own different customer groups, but this situation has changed in the alphard / Vellfire currently sold.
The third generation of Alphard launched in 2015 because the design style and texture have changed significantly, so the popularity has risen, although Vellfire's design style has also improved, but compared with Alphard is not much improved, in the early stage of the sales of both sides are not too big gap, but to the end of 2017, the small modification model above the original for Alphard replaced with a new design, so Alphard's sales are rising, and Vellfire maintained its basic design style, and its popularity was far less than that of the new Alphard.
You should know that since 2013, Vellfire's sales performance was originally ahead of Alphard, but with alphard's makeover, not only has the appearance but also matured and stable, so Velffire's market began to be occupied by Alphard, from 54,180 in 2015 to 18,004 in 2020, which shows how serious the new Alphard is to Velffire!
The following are the sales results of the two models:
Strictly speaking, the manufacture of two different shapes of the car, the need to redevelop the abrasive, so both the time and cost will be greatly improved, perhaps Toyota is to see vellfire sales have begun to have a serious decline in this decision, after all, the current Alphard has the strength to replace Velllfire, and the future of the original factory to focus on the production of a car can save more time, cost, and increase the number of production to supply market demand, It is a good thing for the factory and the consumer.
In the past, there were Japanese media news that a new generation of Alphard will be released in April 2022, which also means that the current Alphard and Vellfire will be discontinued, but we still have a glimmer of hope, that is, the official did not confirm the "suspension of the Vellfire product line" This news, so in fact, this car has a glimmer of life, so I hope that Toyota can still keep this car in the end.