The first Previa hid its engine almost flat under the front seats, tilted 75 degrees from vertical — changing a spark plug meant pulling the seat, carpet and an access panel.
Median 130 hp across 65 similar cars
Lead trim: 2.4 2TZ-FE · up to 161 hp
Toyota Previa / Estima XR10 / XR20XR10/XR20 · 1990–1999
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Nobody in Burbles has spotted a Toyota Previa / Estima XR10 / XR20 yet. See one on the street, point the app at it, and the first card is yours — with your @handle permanently credited on this page.
FactThe first Previa hid its engine almost flat under the front seats, tilted 75 degrees from vertical — changing a spark plug meant pulling the seat, carpet and an access panel.
The egg-shaped Toyota minivan sold as the Estima in Japan and the Tarago in Australia, with its four-cylinder engine mounted mid-ship under the front seats. It was offered in rear-wheel drive and All-Trac all-wheel-drive forms, and from the 1994 model year with a supercharged engine.
Collectors Spotted in the Toyota Previa / Estima Lineage
No member has published a public street spot of the Toyota Previa / Estima yet — the First · Worldwide stamp is wide open.
Trims & Figures
2 published trims in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.4 2TZ-FE | 1990–1999 | 2.4 L Inline-4 | 133 hp | 152 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 2.4 supercharged 2TZ-FZE | 1994–1999 | 2.4 L Inline-4 | 161 hp | 201 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
Owning one
An estimate, for the 2.4 2TZ-FE trim: fuel on its EPA figure and a dated national price, upkeep on a per-mile average for the kind of car it is.
Owners’ builds
Nobody has claimed one yet.
Photographs
The 2016 facelift turned the Estima into an unlikely sun-safety pioneer: Toyota gave it glass that blocked 99 percent of UV rays, strong enough to earn a Skin Cancer Foundation recommendation.
Toyota quietly built the world's first hybrid minivan inside this generation — the 2001 Estima Hybrid, years before hybrids were a mainstream badge.
The first Previa hid its engine almost flat under the front seats, tilted 75 degrees from vertical — changing a spark plug meant pulling the seat, carpet and an access panel.
Rivals
Same body, same money, other badges — tap any card to flip.
This Presage minivan shares its underlying platform with the Teana sedan and the North American Murano crossover — one architecture doing three very different jobs.
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YRV stands for Young Recreational Vehicle, a mini MPV built to out-handle its own segment rivals.
The Terraza was Buick's first-ever minivan for the North American market - a badge-engineered cousin of the Chevrolet Uplander, Pontiac Montana SV6, and Saturn Relay.
The restyled 1994 Lumina Minivan quietly made American automotive history: it was the first minivan sold in the US with a power sliding door you could open by remote.
The first-generation Lumina APV minivan was nicknamed the "Dustbuster" by the press for its sharply sloped windshield, which pushed the dashboard far forward of the driver.
Its steeply sloped windshield gave the Lumina APV one of the deepest dashboards ever fitted to a mass-produced car.
The first Presage wasn't really its own car underneath — most of its parts came straight from the Nissan R'nessa, with more shared with its platform twin, the Bassara.