The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., recently announced that it is supplying its ADVAN V61 tires as original equipment (OE) to Toyota Motor Corporation for use on the automaker’s new hybrid SUV, the RAV4, sales of which was launched worldwide in December 2025*. The tire sizes are 235/65R17 104H and 235/60R18 103H.

*The ADVAN V61 tires are equipped on the Z and ADVENTURE models of the new RAV4.

The ADVAN V61 went on sale in Japan and worldwide except North America in March 2025 as a new offering in Yokohama Rubber’s global flagship ADVAN brand range. This premium SUV summer tire offers ADVAN’s hallmark premium-grade driving performance, along with a high-level balance of fuel and energy efficiency, handling stability, and quietness, achieving both comfortable city driving and long-distance touring for heavyweight SUVs. The ADVAN V61 is supplied as OE on many premium SUVs, and in addition to the size being utilized on the RAV4, there is a wide range of sizes available for the replacement market.

* News release: "Yokohama Rubber to launch new ADVAN V61 tire for premium SUVs" (https://www.y-yokohama.com/release/?id=4447&lang=en)

The supplied tires were developed by taking advantage of Yokohama Rubber’s proprietary HAICoLab*, an AI-based development framework that aims to foster new discoveries and digital innovation by merging human inspiration and creativity with AI’s enormous data　processing capability.

* An acronym for “Humans and AI ColLaborate” for digital innovation

Under Yokohama Rubber’s three-year (2024–2026) medium-term management plan, Yokohama Transformation 2026 (YX2026), the consumer tire business aims to maximize the sales ratios of high-value-added tires. One of the key initiatives under this strategy is promoting the global flagship ADVAN brand tires and the GEOLANDAR brand tires for SUVs and pickup trucks as original equipment for new cars.

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Yokohama Rubber’s ADVAN V61 Tires Coming Factory-Equipped on Toyota’s New RAV4