Toyota engines

Toyota is Japan’s largest automotive corporation, also providing financial services and several additional business lines. It is the largest publicly traded automobile company in the world and the largest publicly traded company in Japan. The company is headquartered in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture (Japan).

Toyota Motor Corporation produces a wide range of automotive engines. Since 1987, the company has followed the following naming system for its engines:

  • the first digits indicate the generation of the engine block;
  • the next one or two letters indicate the engine family;
  • suffixes (through dashes) define engine features;
  • further, after the letters, the seven-digit serial number of the engine in this generation of the family is indicated.
Suffix Feature
A valvematic variable valve timing system
B two SU carburetors (post-2000 evidence of E85 ethanol fuel)
C with California emission control system
CI with centralized single-point fuel injection system with electronic control
D two downdraft carburetors
E electronic fuel injection
F DOHC valve timing with narrow “economy” phases
G DOHC valve timing with wide “productive” phases
H high compression or high pressure boost
I centralized fuel injection
J autochoke
K Atkinson cycle (non-hybrid)
L transverse engine
M for Philippine market
N compressed natural gas engine
P liquefied petroleum gas engine
R low compression (for fuels with an octane rating of 87 and below)
S vortex mixing
SE direct petrol injection
T turbocharging
U with Japanese catalytic converter
V common Rail Diesel Injection System
X hybrid engine with Atkinson cycle
Z supercharged (mechanical blower)

The catalog contains engines for the following Toyota models: 4Runner | AE86 | Allion | Alphard | Altezza | Aristo | Aurion | Auris | Avalon | Avensis | bB | Belta | Blade | Brevis | Caldina | Camry | Carina | Celica | Celsior | Chaser | Corolla | Corolla Ceres | Corolla Levin | Corolla Rumion | Corolla Spacio | Corona | Cresta | Crown | Estima/Previa | FJ Cruiser | Fortuner | Fun Cargo | Gaia | Granvia | Harrier | HiAce | Highlander/Kluger | Hilux | Innova | Ipsum | Isis | Ist/Scion xA-xD | Land Cruiser | Land Cruiser Prado | Mark II | Mark X | Mark X Zio | Matrix | MR2 | Nadia | Noah/Voxy | Opa | Platz | Porte | Premio | Prius | Probox | Progres | Ractis | Raum | RAV4 | RunX | Sai | Scepter | Sequoia | Sienna | Soarer | Solara | Sprinter | Sprinter Carib | Sprinter Marino | Sprinter Trueno | Supra | T100 | Tacoma | Tercel | Town Ace | Tundra | Venza | Verossa | Verso | Vios | Vista | Will | Windom | Wish | Yaris | Zelas.