What is Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA)?

Common process. Common parts. Ever-better vehicles.

Toyota New Global Architecture (commonly referred to as TNGA) is the manifestation of Toyota's mission to push the boundaries of advanced technology and automotive-related innovation. This structural reform movement utilizes a completely new strategy for designing, engineering, and packaging vehicles in an effort to produce high-quality, fun-to-drive cars.

Retaining all of the company's traditional values while executing a completely new strategy, the totally-redesigned vehicle development platform is being implemented to make Toyota's manufacturing plants more flexible and responsive to marketplace fluctuations. Like an athlete's development of core strength, Toyota is optimizing their automobiles at the structure level and beyond by lowering hood heights, lowering the center of gravity, improving driving performance, and more.

In a nutshell, TNGA-styled modular development is about building ever-better vehicles on common platforms with common parts in order to reduce resources and increase manufacturing efficiency. TNGA-based car-making provides the foundational basis for creating multiple engine variations on the same line by sharing parts as well as powertrain components. The flexibility afforded will then, in turn, result in cost savings that can be reinvested in future technologies.

Toyota is investing billions of dollars into strategically restructuring its facilities as part of the company's aim to have every plant institute the program; and the first TNGA-inspired vehicle to roll off the line in North America is the all-new 2018 Camry assembled at Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky. The streamlined process makes immediate use of compact machinery and eliminates no-longer-necessary equipment such as now-irrelevant overhead conveyors.

But TNGA isn't strictly limited to manufacturing. It also represents an ideology of maximized driver dynamics. Enhancing each model's unique features and accentuating appeal, TNGA's five domains include a satisfying driving quality for everyone, comfort that makes you want to keep driving, user-friendly technologies and highly-intuitive interfaces, a sought-after appeal for pride of ownership, and world-class safety features for security towards a better society.

Expect to see future Toyota models with a lower center of gravity, high-rigidity structure, increased visibility, and improved agility as the pioneering automaker gets even better at producing ever-better vehicles that meet and exceed consumer demands.

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