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The brand new Toyota HiLux shall be revealed on November 11, 2025.
Toyota Motor Thailand introduced the reveal date in a teaser video, displaying off extra of the brand new – or, extra precisely, closely up to date – ute vary. The HiLux, like many different utes bought in Australia, is produced in Thailand.
The teaser video reveals off extra aggressive new upswept headlights with skinny LED daytime working lights, in addition to vertically oriented tail-lights with skinny, C-shaped LED components.
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We’ve already seen fairly a little bit of the brand new HiLux, due to a cavalcade of leaked photographs and spy pictures.
In addition to the overhauled front- and rear-end styling, the HiLux is about to get a brand new dashboard with what seems to be an out there 12.3-inch infotainment touchscreen.
Earlier spy pictures have proven the doorways and roof panels shall be carried over from the now decade-old current-generation mannequin, which is smart because the new-generation ute is about to be based mostly on a carryover ladder-frame platform.
That’s in distinction with the Tacoma, Toyota’s Ford Ranger rival in markets just like the US, which moved to the TNGA-F platform shared with the likes of the Toyota LandCruiser Prado and 300 Sequence with its newest technology, a transfer that additionally noticed its American cousin acquire hybrid energy for the primary time.
The brand new HiLux is anticipated to proceed with a 2.8-litre four-cylinder turbo-diesel engine, which is presently supplied both with or and not using a 48V mild-hybrid system.
Outputs presently high out at 150kW of energy and 500Nm of torque with or with out the V-Energetic mild-hybrid system, and 165kW/550Nm for the flagship GR Sport.
Whether or not the diesel engines shall be upgraded to satisfy Euro 6 emissions laws – and subsequently doubtlessly require AdBlue – isn’t but clear.
It’s additionally unclear at this stage what is going to change into of the turbo-diesel 2.4-litre and naturally aspirated petrol 2.7-litre four-cylinder engines supplied in additional reasonably priced variants of the outgoing HiLux. These didn’t seem in lately printed Australian Authorities certification paperwork.
A leaked slide from a presentation to Malaysian media on the Tokyo motor present, printed on social media, seems to point out the brand new HiLux will even be supplied with electrical energy.
This electrical ute – of which a shadowy picture was included on the slide – shall be launched in Malaysia throughout the subsequent 12 months, although it’s unclear whether or not it’ll be supplied in markets like Australia.
Toyota has beforehand introduced a prototype model of the electrical HiLux Revo idea, based mostly on the outgoing technology, to Australia. The corporate subsequently confirmed it could provide mining big BHP with electrical HiLuxes, ranging from November 2024.
Whereas the HiLux continues to dominate 4×2 ute gross sales in Australia, the Ranger’s benefit in 4×4 gross sales allowed it to push previous the Toyota for the primary time in 2023.
That noticed the Ranger change into Australia’s best-selling new car, a title it held onto in 2024 and which it could hold in 2025.
The HiLux doesn’t presently provide something to match the turbo-diesel V6 or plug-in hybrid four-cylinder petrol powertrains supplied within the Ranger.
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