Toyota has unveiled a new-look HiLux ute.
Having misplaced its place as Australia’s favorite automobile to the Ford Ranger in 2023, Toyota is about to battle again with contemporary appears to be like and new options.
New front-end styling for high-grade fashions brings a sleeker, car-like entrance finish therapy to Toyota’s hottest mannequin.
Toyota says the revised grille and entrance bumper for the high-grade SR5 convey “an interlocking design with an octagonal grille, trapezoidal decrease part and daring outer bumper”.
Cheaper WorkMate fashions profit from a black honeycomb mesh grille to match a brand new black entrance bumper.
However probably the most vital change is underneath the pores and skin, the place 48-volt delicate hybrid tech will assist clients cut back their gasoline payments by as much as 10 per cent.
Although some producers would name the boosted electrical system a hybrid, Toyota is joyful to minimize the tech’s inexperienced credentials.
In any case, Toyota Australia’s vp of gross sales, advertising and marketing and franchise operations Sean Hanley says the upgrades to the new-look HiLux vary make it extra compelling than ever.
“Introducing 48-Volt know-how on double-cab HiLux fashions is an thrilling step ahead, bettering gasoline effectivity whereas nonetheless offering efficiency and functionality that the HiLux is understood for,” he says.
“Mixed with dynamic styling and improved specification, the HiLux vary has by no means regarded extra interesting.”
Toyota has not revealed energy or gasoline consumption figures for the HiLux, a automobile that at present makes 150kW and 500Nm in high-grade automated trim.
Different tech contains improved parking sensors parking sensors for the SR, plus a wi-fi charging pad and two rear USB-C ports subsequent to the air-conditioning vents for the SR5, Rogue and GR Sport.
The up to date HiLux represents a welcome reprieve for Toyota in a tricky week.
The producer’s head workplace shocked clients by saying it paused manufacturing of diesel-powered autos together with the HiLux and Land Cruiser.
Toyota stated an audit of engine efficiency discovered irregularities which have “shaken the very foundations of the corporate”, promising to implement a “a drastic reform of company tradition”.
Having paused meeting in late January, Toyota says it determined to renew manufacturing of affected fashions from February 12.
