Dakar champions Giniel de Villiers and Dirk von Zitzewitz will return for the 2014 race, joined by rally driver Leeroy Poulter and navigator Rob Howie.
Technicians at Toyota Motorsport's Barbecue Downs workshop near Kyalami have already started building the first of two completely new racing Toyota Hilux 4x4's.
Team principal Glyn Hall confirmed it would again have independent rear suspension and would incorporate a number of changes designed to make it faster.
"The rules require that you use a production engine from the manufacturer's stable," he said. "The five-litre naturally-aspirated V8 in our current racing Hilux has done a great, trouble-free job to date, but we are looking at ways we can be more competitive with our main rivals and their turbocharged cars, in terms of outright speed."
TESTING IN THE SAND DUNES
The team will return to the Namib Desert near Walvis Bay at the beginning of August for four days of testing in the sand dunes with the 2013 Toyota Hilux in which De Villiers and Von Zitzewitz finished second in this year's Dakar Rally.
De Villiers and von Zitzewitz, winners of the Dakar Rally in 2009, will reunite for the first time since January to begin their preparations for their third Dakar together in the South African-built and developed racing Toyota Hilux.
The 2014 Dakar Rally will start in Rosario in Argentina on 5 January and end in the Chilean city of Valparaiso on 18 January, after seven special stages in Argentina, a rest day in Salta on 11 January and six special stages in Chile. Motorcycle competitors will also have a marathon stage and an overnight stop in Peru.