Toyota Mark Ii Blit

The Toyota Mark II Blit is a mid-size station wagon produced and manufactured by the Japanese automaker Toyota. It is the alternative of the Mark II Qualis and shared a platform with the X110 series Mark II rear-wheel drive sedan, while the Mark II Qualis is a rebadged XV20 series Camry Gracia wagon, with front-wheel drive layout. The Mark II Blit was shown in January 2002 and ended production in June 2007 due to consolidation efforts. The car remained in production until 3 years after the Mark X was introduced, which replaced all of Toyota's X-body sedans, the Verossa, which in turn is a replacement to the Chaser and the Cresta, and the Mark II. Toyota's official Mark II Blit inheritor is the front-wheel drive minivan, the Mark X ZiO, from September 2007. The Mark II Blit marked the return to the Mark II platform with rear-wheel drive layout with optional 4-wheel drive and not a wagon version of the front-wheel drive Camry. The car was given a minor update in December 2004, including changes to the headlamps, grille and taillamps, which are replaced with LED units. The Mark II Blit uses 6-cylinder engines with an optional turbocharger that was discontinued in May 2006, as a result of Japan's emission standards in 2005. The engines used were the 2.0 L 1G-FE, 2.5 L 1JZ-FSE, 2.5 L 1JZ-GE, and 2.5 L single-turbocharged 1JZ-GTE.

The name "Blit" is derived from German word "blitz", called "lightning".