Toyota has revealed plans in which it will “refresh” ex-customer cars at its UK manufacturing facility as part of a drive to add value throughout the life cycle of a vehicle.
Under the new scheme, the car maker will return used models to its factory after the first ownership to be refurbished to as close to ‘as-new’ as is possible.
The process could be repeated for the third owner, president and managing director of Toyota GB, Agustin Martin told Autocar.
He said: “I think we’re very familiar with the usual two- to three-year cycles that are extremely popular in the UK, but we need to go beyond that two- to three-year cycle and say: ‘Okay, what happens in that second cycle and in the third cycle?’”
Full details of the refurbishing process are yet to be announced.