Quickride: 2014 Toyota Vellfire G's

"Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW." (aya-yu)
06/08/2014 at 09:11 • Filed to: Quickride

Have you've ever wake up in the morning, smell the fresh morning air, and once thought "You know what? I Need a Sporty Minivan". But that's what exactly Toyota have done with Vellfire G's.

The standard Vellfire start out in life as a Toyota's Luxury Minivan, aimed at young families with emphasizes on strength and strong individuality. You might think "Who on earth that need luxury minivan?" But apparantely here in Asia minivan is more than a car to haul your families. Famous peoples love them, since it's offer bigger and nicer interior than the Mercedes S-Class, especially when it's on 4-seater trim. Don't believe me? Check this interior from standard Vellfire:

But to attract even more wider audience Toyota ask their tuning arm, the G's, to make a race-esqued alphard. And here it is:

The modification on this car is mostly focused on appearance and handling, thanks to custom-tuned G's Sport Suspension and Toyo's Proxxes tyres.

It's also got quad-exhaust.

And rear-diffuser.

In the interior, gone that standard Vellfire interior and you get this alcantara-trimmed seats, that pretends to be a racing seats. And there's G's badge everywhere, just like M cars and AMGs. It's also can carry quite a lot of person in it, since it's still a 7-seater minivan.

Too bad they didn't touch the engine, so it's still standard and humble 3.5l 2GR-FE engine, producing a respectable 276hp and 240lb-ft of torque. It's got AWD tough, but since it weighs 1.9 tonnes, don't expect this car to be very quick. 0-60 takes about 9-10 seconds, and the top speed is limited at 112mph, since that's japanese regulation.

How it's feels then? Well, the standard Vellfire is very soft and wallowy, so it's ions out bumps. The standard car is also very understeery and when you do any sudden maneuvers it feels it want to be flip over. And if you take the standard car to a back mountain road, the car leans so much that it will make you feel carsick.

But the G's Vellfire feels more focused, the understeer and softness is still there, but it feels more grippy and quick. It feels that finally you can drive this car without fearing of carsick and flip this car, it's much more stable. But it's still feels like a very big car. It's like driving a small shed that equipped with sport suspension and toyo proxes, that's it.

Standard equipment, you get Triple zone Full-Auto and Independently Adjusted Air Conditioning with Recirculated Air Modes and Rear Personal Air Conditioning and Air Purifier (damn thats freaking long), you get satnav, electric seats that can massage you (but only in the middle), TV mounted on the headliner (only in the middle as well), radar guided cruise control, and many other things.

Now at this point, you might wonder, how much is it?

Well, Price start at a hefty 995 Million Rupias, or 83.5k USD. Part of it was 100% import tax, that's make this car so expensive. I think without import tax it's going to be somewhat a bit more affordable, because in Japan the MSRP for this thing was 41.5kUSD. But still, it's an amazing car. If i had a big family with many children i might consider one.

DISCUSSION (15)

Tom McParland > Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW.
06/08/2014 at 09:20

41.5k is not too far off the Sienna. I say add a TRD supercharger to that V6 crank it up to 400 hp and you will have one bad ass minivan.

Brian Silvestro > Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW.
06/08/2014 at 09:21

This thing is awesome! I wonder why no companies offer a sport-oriented van in the US. SO MUCH LUXURY

It's not even too expensive either considering dat import tax.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW.
06/08/2014 at 09:21

...I have never actually lusted after a minivan before. But I want one of those.

Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. > Brian Silvestro
06/08/2014 at 09:24

Yeah. But at least toyota sold them as a Luxury Minivan, since they also have something with a bit less luxury called the Nav1.

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW.
06/08/2014 at 09:26

Beats the overpriced soccer mom vans over here, which have cheap interiors, but a luxury price tag. These look awesome for a similar price.

Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. > Tom McParland
06/08/2014 at 09:28

oooh yes.

In here the closest thing we got to Supercharged TRD V6 was in the Toyota Mark X, which produce 350hp. But i think it would be awesome to stuff a 400hp in it. or...

Stuff a V8 from IS-F!

Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy
06/08/2014 at 09:28

yeah. I wonder why they keep these Asia only.

Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. > sm70- why not Duesenberg?
06/08/2014 at 09:28

Me too. But i still love my Crown.

boxrocket > sm70- why not Duesenberg?
06/08/2014 at 09:34

O rly?

Kinja'd!!!

Had an F1 V10. Utterly impractical as a minivan, but who cares? http://www.supercars.net/cars/1672.html

Svend > Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW.
06/08/2014 at 10:20

Only minivan you'll see me in is a Ford S-Max.

Kinja'd!!!

Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius > Tom McParland
06/08/2014 at 11:02

true but the Sienna is over proceed for what you get. Plus it is E-nor-muss. What we really want us a 3/4 scale minivan with three rows. The Mazda drives ok but the interior is entry car cheap. I would pay the same for this tricked out van in lieu of the bigger Sienna

Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura > Brian Silvestro
06/08/2014 at 15:06

Actually, Lexani does sell a modified Sprinter that's way, WAAAAY better than some tarted-up Sienna. Toyota needs to GTFAC for missing their mark.

Amoore100 > Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW.
01/04/2015 at 23:27

This is great! I have this weird thing for Japanese super-vans and just got a Tomica standard Vellfire and Elgrand (third-gen) for Christmas! Will be watching in anticipation for more MPV posts, especially about the Elgrand!

Kinja'd!!!

Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. > Amoore100
01/06/2015 at 04:11

You know what?

I have A Nissan Elgrand. You might notice it since i post quite often about it. I might write a review soon.

Amoore100 > Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW.
01/06/2015 at 09:18

Yep, saw that...it's so cool to have someone overseas to write about and experience all the stuff we don't get here!