hope Toyota has changed the rear tailgate to a lift hatch.
You mean nothing has been leaked, no sketches or anything. I haven't really been following it, I know they are desperately overdue for a redesign, but usually, in this day and age, they are leaks, and previews of what it is going to look like, well before the autoshow...
And I have a feeling to appeal to the masses that it will have a lift hatch, in some situations it is a real pain when you have to go around the vehicle to load suitcases with a swing door design. Like in big cities, where you have to parallel park (manually, can you believe it!) you have to go around the door each time.
You get a little extra cargo room with having the tire on the door, but you loose visibility, so not sure what the advantages are of having a swing door... And neither do other manufacturers....
