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The brand new-generation Toyota HiLux has been revealed and can go on sale in Australia from December 2025, with an expanded lineup together with diesel, electrical and fuel-cell powertrains – and an Australian-designed exterior.
The HiLux – which was Australia’s best-selling automobile for seven consecutive years till the Ford Ranger knocked it off the highest spot in 2023 – is the model’s best-seller right here, with Toyota lengthy the top-selling model.
This can be a vital automobile for Australia’s greatest auto model and its opponents embrace not solely the top-selling Ford but in addition the Isuzu D-Max, Mitsubishi Triton and newcomers such because the BYD Shark 6, Kia Tasman and MG U9.
The automaker pulled the covers off the brand new HiLux in Bangkok, Thailand – the place will probably be made – to disclose an Australian-led exterior design which is “a deliberate departure” from the prevailing mannequin.
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“Over the previous 10 years, now we have been engaged on vital HiLux updates, particular fashions and naturally equipment for international HiLux household fashions, alongside our companions on the technical centre in Thailand,” stated Toyota Design Australia senior supervisor Nick Hogios in a press release.
“It was solely pure that Toyota headquarters chosen us to design the outside for the following era, once more in shut collaboration with the groups in Japan and Thailand and our international Head of Design and Chief Branding Officer Simon Humphries.”
The ninth era of the HiLux since 1968, the brand new 2026 HiLux makes use of the identical ‘Progressive Worldwide Multi-Goal Car’ (IMV) underpinnings courting again to 2004, which means designers labored round related proportions to the present model.
There’s a brand new ‘Cyber Sumo’ exterior theme, impressed by the ‘Sonkyu’ sumo wrestling squatting pose, with high-set headlights, body-coloured mesh grille and chunkier entrance bumper for a ‘two quantity structure’.
From the windscreen A-pillar to the again of the cab, the skin of the brand new HiLux cabin is unchanged from the outgoing mannequin – together with its door skins, roof and window glass – whereas higher-spec SR5 and Rogue fashions function moulded wheel arch extensions and blacked-out window surrounds.
The recent exterior sees the decrease portion behind the rear wheel embrace an built-in step – as seen on the Ford Ranger since its present era arrived in 2022 – to allow simpler entry to the tray space.
The ‘fight prepared’ cabin noticed appreciable enter from Toyota Australia Design, too, which noticed members of the Australian workforce on project in Japan for 2 years throughout improvement – and consists of newly designed entrance and rear seats behind an all-new ‘three-tier’ dashboard design.
All variants have a 12.3-inch touchscreen infotainment system and a row of bodily switches for key capabilities like air-conditioning, whereas there’s a digital instrument cluster measuring between 7.0- and 12.3-inches relying on mannequin grade.
There’s additionally a LandCruiser Prado-esque steering wheel with squared-off centre, in addition to a chunky gear selector, outstanding buttons for off-road capabilities equivalent to hill descent management, and a centre-mounted rotary dial for drive mode choice.
An digital park brake replaces the standard pull-up model within the outgoing HiLux, though a traditional lever could stay in some fashions, whereas the centre console is each wider and taller for higher stowage.
Full tools particulars are but to be introduced, however Toyota has confirmed 16 totally different diesel mannequin grades from launch, with a battery-electric HiLux to comply with within the first quarter (January-March) of 2026.
A hydrogen fuel-cell electrical automobile (FCEV) HiLux may even be a part of the lineup in 2028 and would be the first fuel-cell Toyota accessible to public patrons right here, as the present Mirai is simply provided for lease in Australia.
Diesel-powered HiLux variants will hit showrooms from December 2025 and might be provided in single-, extra- and dual-cab physique types, with 4×2 and 4×4 drivelines, and in WorkMate, SR, SR5, Rogue and Rugged X mannequin grades.
A Ranger Raptor-rivalling GR Sport model, amongst others, is anticipated to affix the lineup down the monitor with extra energy, torque and off-road functionality than the remainder of the lineup.
The identical 2.8-litre turbo-diesel four-cylinder (codenamed 1GD-FTV) has been carried over from the prevailing mannequin and is the one engine provided from launch, with the earlier 2.4-litre turbo-diesel and a couple of.7-litre petrol engines dropped.
Each dropped engines have succumbed to approaching Euro 6 emissions legal guidelines in Australia, which can be the explanation Toyota won’t carry the brand new FJ LandCruiser to native showrooms.
The brand new HiLux might be provided with six-speed computerized and six-speed handbook transmissions, with the arch-rival Ford Ranger changing into computerized solely when the present era arrived in 2022.
Outputs stay unchanged at 150kW/500Nm (with the earlier GR Sport at 165kW/550N) for computerized fashions and 150kW/420Nm for manual-equipped variations.
Some mannequin grades (but to be confirmed) of computerized HiLux will include 48-volt gentle hybrid tech as commonplace – with gasoline effectivity figures, towing and payloads but to be confirmed.
Complete testing regionally additionally noticed Toyota Australia work on the 2 totally different suspension tunes which might be used throughout the HiLux vary and assist fine-tune the ‘Multi-Terrain Choose’ 4×4 drive mode system.
Additional particulars of the 2026 Toyota Hilux might be revealed later this month.
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