Toyota and Lexus concepts suggest a wild ride for impending car show.

PROPOSAL to take Toyota’s longest-lived nameplate, Corolla, into a fully electric phase and to reinvent the luxury sedan that launched Lexus as a six-wheeled giant people carrier also reliant on battery feed have aired.

Toyota and its luxury offshoot have provided a first look at concept vehicles they’ve prepared for Japan’s largest car show at the end of this month.

The show and some tell came at a presentation in Japan discussing the car company’s future.

The array expected to fully reveal at the Mobility Japan show at the end of this month is impressive.

Aside from the two mentioned here it will also span a rebirth of Century, its domestic limo model, as a flagship sports coupe-style SUV (below) and a tiny ar from Daihatsu, which though extinct here still lives on it is home land.

The gigantic six-wheel LS MPV concept was the biggest shocker - it’s an especially radical rethink about what luxury car buyers want.

In 1989, when the original LS came out, plush sedans with petrol V8s were all the rage. And that’s what Toyota gave the world and has kept giving them since.

The concept appears to have solidified the place of luxury people movers above traditional sedans, a notion that might seem hard for Kiwis to swallow but one that bases on a solid foundation.

Luxury people carriers are now top choices in Asia as limo alternates. That’s why Chinese makes Zeekr and Wey are bringing their’s here next year. Those have four wheels, of course.

Lexus already has a MPV called the LM, which is based on the Alphard that Toyota New Zealand has toyed with as a used import.

Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda says the LS concept is the next step. It was designed from the ground up for Lexus.

The presentation also delivered these images of a new Corolla concept; the streamlined cabin shape has raised speculation it has to be an electric version.

The presentation was also expected to host the reveal of the company’s new twin-turbo V8 halo sports car, set to step in where the astounding LFA V10 left off.

However, only a sample of the supercar’s engine noise was heard.

Japan’s top brand also revealed its latest slogan: ‘To You – Toyota’.