Toyota recently filed a trademark for the name ‘4Active’ with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, although we’re not sure if or when the nameplate will be put in use.
The trademark application was filed on December 9, 2019 and is for “automobiles and structural parts thereof.” It’s not unusual for car manufacturers (and other companies) to trademark names like this with no intention of ever launching products with such names.
However, Motor1 thinks this name could be used by a future model.
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We all know that Toyota will start to build a new SUV at the factory it is co-creating with Mazda in Alabama. While limited details about this model are available right now, the 4Active name could work quite well and would complement the existing 4Runner in Toyota’s model range. Alternatively, 4Active could also be used to denote an all-wheel drive variation of the Alabama-built SUV.
One of the most intriguing concepts launched by Toyota in recent years was the FT-4X unveiled at the New York Auto Show in 2017. Toyota has never said if this vehicle will make it to the production line, but it would certainly suit the automaker’s new-found (and welcomed) obsession with launching eye-catching, exciting, and capable vehicles and could act as a rival to the Jeep Compass, or a future sub-Wrangler baby off-roader from Jeep.
If Toyota does intend on using the 4Active name for a new SUV, we’ll likely see prototypes of such a vehicle out and about in the coming year or so.
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