Toyota Engines until 2030 (maybe?)

Was watching Ben Collins Drives on YT, and he was covering Lotus as a company and the Emira 420 Sport:

At right before the 10:00 mark, "We've done a deal recently with Toyota to extend to 2030." Start at around 9:30 to catch the full bit.

I know they have talked about that turbo hybrid 6 cylinder Horse engine, and I've admittedly not being watching the news enough lately. But sounds like there may be a chance for the V6 manual to live on a few more years. One can only hope.

 

[Porter]

Are you saying those people were wrong or those people were correct - your first sentence seems to imply the former but your end comment suggests you believe they were correct?

To be fair, anyone stating the end of the V6 production and that the engine will not longer be available - this is what Geely said themselves.

They were spectacularly incorrect. And they weren't quoting Geely, they were making these statements based on the fact that Toyota had discontinued the remaining Toyota production vehicles that used the 2GR-FE. Several journalists reported this as the "death of the 2GR V6" as a blanket statement, and then folks just ran with it as though it was incontrovertible fact.

The argument I made, quite sharply at the time, was that Toyota will build whatever engines a major customer orders from them. They have an entirely separate line of business that builds engines under contract, and are still currently building engines from the 1970s, 80s, 90s, etc. There are Land Cruiser safari build companies in Africa that are still getting brand new engines from Toyota that haven't been in a Toyota production vehicle in 40+ years.