Category: Toyota

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UPGRADED TOYOTA KLUGER: MORE POWER, LESS FUEL

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Toyota Australia has something for just about everyone in the SUV / 4WD field. The Kluger is aimed very much at the SUV lover who wants to transport the family in more comfort than the heavy duty LandCruiser 100 and the almost heavy-duty Prado. Kluger sits midway between Prado and RAV4 and has been popular during its 14 years downunder to date. Now Kluger has been updated, with a facelift, new technology and increased in-cabin comfort. By far the biggest news in the latest Kluger is that the long-running petrol… Read more

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TOYOTA HILUX IS THE FIRST UTILITY TO TOP ANNUAL AUSTRALIAN SALES

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Toyota Australia’s sales and marketing chief, Tony Cramb, celebrates Toyota’s one-two finish

The Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI) has released the motor vehicle sales results for 2016 and, for the first time ever, the top seller wasn’t a passenger car but rather a utility. With a total of 42,104 units the Toyota HiLux outsold its Corolla stablemate (40,330), to complete a Toyota quinella – the first time one car company was taken out the top two places. Hyundai i30 was the third biggest selling model with sales up by 16.9% to 37,772 while a 6.6% decline saw Mazda3 (36,107) drop from… Read more

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TOYOTA WORKHORSE NOT READY FOR KNACKER’S YARD

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The farmers’ friend; the miners’ mate nearly didn’t make it. In some quarters it was thought Toyota’s LandCruiser 70 Series workhorse, after more than three decades, had run its course. However, they had not reckoned on a cohort of Aussie owners who had used the ‘go almost anywhere’ 70 Series in the most challenging terrain to do the toughest jobs. So five years ago Toyota set chief engineer Sadayoshi Koyari and a team of Australian engineers and their Japanese counterparts the task of coming up with a new model worthy… Read more

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COROLLA TURNS ON HYBRID EFFICIENCY

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While other automobile manufacturers take varying roads to low emissions, Toyota is steadfastly sticking to the petrol / electric hybrid route with its new addition to the genre, the Corolla Hybrid. With official fuel consumption put at 4.1 litres per 100 kilometres on the combined urban / highway cycle, this is good enough to give the vehicle a range of almost 1100 km depending on driving style. The fifth hybrid in Toyota’s Australian line-up, joining Camry, Prius, Prius c and Prius v, the hybrid version of the popular Corolla arrives… Read more

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TOYOTA YARIS 2005 – 2016

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2008 Toyota Yaris hatch

Toyota Yaris is a smaller brother to the big selling Toyota Corolla but is still a reasonable size and may well be all you need if you only ever need to carry one or two people. Indeed, a Yaris can be used as a family car when the kids are small. It was introduced to Australia in November 2005 and over 200,000 have been sold to date. As are plenty on sale at any one time smart buyers can take their time and hunt down the best ones. Yaris replaced… Read more

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TOYOTA PRIUS 2003 – 2015

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2011 Toyota Prius

Toyota Prius wasn’t the first petrol-electric hybrid to go on sale in Australia, that honour belongs to Honda with its quirky Insight two-seater. But while Honda hybrids have come and gone over the years Toyota, and its luxury offshoot Lexus, have stuck consistently with hybrids. However, while Toyota has improved the Prius in the 15 years it has been on sale in Australia it hasn’t made big strides as seen in other hybrids, such as recent arrivals from Honda, Mitsubishi, Audi and BMW. This is possibly a result of Toyota’s… Read more

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TOYOTA TARAGO 1990 – 2015

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2012 Toyota Tarago

Toyota Tarago has been sold in Australia in large numbers since the early 1980s and was one of the earliest examples of what later became known as people movers. However the first Taragos were nothing more than delivery vans with extra seats, side windows and a bit of added trim. Toyota decided to make a complete change in direction and from 1990 Tarago was a pure people mover with all that means in the way of added comfort and safety features. Though so-called ‘Egg-shaped’ 1990s Taragos are getting on in… Read more

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TOYOTA CELICA 1990 – 2006

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2002 Toyota Celica

By EWAN KENNEDY CAPTIONS: A. B. C. 2002 Toyota Celica BODY COPY Toyota Celica was a big seller in the sporty coupe market for many years. It fell out of fashion, along with rivals which had never really come close to it in the sales race. Celica was quietly slipped from the new-car market in early in 2006. But is still popular on the used-car scene. Even more so since the release of the Toyota 86 and its near-identical twin the Subaru BRZ. The launch of the fourth generation Mazda… Read more

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FORTUNER BRINGS HOME THE AUSSIE BACON

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Toyota may be parking its vehicle manufacturing in Australia but that does not mean Aussie input into the Japanese automotive industry is winding down. Take the new Fortuner seven-seat family SUV, for example. The wagon’s new body, wiring and key underpinnings were designed and developed by Australians, while the rugged frame, engine, all-coil suspension and strong upper body were proven Down Under in some of the world’s toughest testing. Toyota Australia executive director sales and marketing Tony Cramb says Foruner is the biggest single development program undertaken by the company’s… Read more

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TOYOTA FRESHENS UP RAV4

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In hindsight it seems strange that Toyota’s decision to launch its first RAV4 model back in 1994 was considered something of a gamble. Until then most passenger vehicles with drive to all four wheels were seen either as a rural workhorse or an overweight and cumbersome suburban people mover. RAV4 was different. While still a 4WD and with a similar shape it was significantly smaller and lighter with the term ‘crossover’ being used prior to it being replaced by the now usually accepted ‘SUV’. Indeed the names SUV (for Sports… Read more