It features sliding doors and is available with either front- or four-wheel drive and straight-4 1.8- and 2.0-liter gasoline engines.

It competed in Japan with the Honda Stream and the Nissan Lafesta.

The doors on the driver's side attach with a conventional doorjamb.

This type of door was first used on the Nissan Prairie in 1981, and was also used on the Ford B-Max.

When the terrorist group ISIS emerged in 2014, Toyota was criticized for inadvertently supplying the militant group with trucks, and was urged to change the name of the MPV, which had become unfortunate by then.