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Toyota is giving customers the option of a LandCruiser Prado with a tyre-free tailgate, thanks to popular demand. For 22 years since the first Prado arrived in Australia, Toyota has sold the large SUV with the covered spare proudly mounted on the tailgate – and it continues to offer this …

Toyota has announced the pricing and specification of its all-new 2019 Corolla hatch, promising dynamic performance, premium ride comfort and advanced safety and driver support systems from $22,870. Sitting on Toyota’s new TNGA (Toyota New Global Architecture) platform, the popular hatch features bold exterior styling, an upscale interior, plus advanced …

Same but different – that’s the best way of describing the Toyota HiLux Rugged X, one of the three new variants of the country’s best-selling vehicle. Rather than giving the HiLux a traditional facelift or an unimaginative ‘special edition’ sticker pack, especially as lower grades go unchanged for 2018, the three …

Active cruise control, pre-collision safety system, seven airbags and reversing camera will all come as standard across the three-model 2018 Toyota Corolla range when it arrives in showrooms next month. Toyota Australia vice-president sales and marketing Sean Hanley said the new generation model offers outstanding driver assistance technologies that significantly …

Toyota has brought together five generations of its Supra sports coupe at the 2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed last weekend, including the fifth-generation A90 Supra. Fans were treated to the spectacle with a total of 50 Supras from four earlier generations taking part in the event. Most of the cars …

More details have emerged on the upcoming Toyota Supra, as the company’s chief engineer disclosed the highly anticipated model would tip the scales around the 1,500kg region and be about as powerful as a V8 Lexus. Speaking to Autocar in the UK, Tetsuya Tada said the resurrected Supra is “around …

Sports car fans will get a taste of the performance potential of the all-new Toyota Supra when a production prototype makes its global debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK. Toyota chief engineer Tetsuya Tada and master driver Herwig Daenens will race the reborn legendary coupe up …

The all-new 2019 Corolla hatch will debut Toyota’s latest generation hybrid technology that will be available across the range when the new model graces Australian showrooms in August. Promising improved driveability and tractability, the upgraded Hybrid Synergy Drive in the new Corolla is also said offer the optimum balance between …

Toyota has taken the wraps off its all-new Toyota Crown, one of the company’s longest running models and its first connected car. The 15th generation Crown comes with a data communication module as standard, enabling 24/7 connectivity focusing on safety, security, comfort and convenience based real-time driving data. Available in …

Toyota has confirmed a road-going version of its GR Super Sport Concept – unveiled at the Tokyo Auto Salon in January – is under development. The announcement comes just days after the carmaker’s historic first ever win at the 24 hours of Le Mans World Endurance Championship race in France. …

Toyota is introducing a new paint hue to the popular 86 coupe in the backdrop of its 20,000 sales in Australia. The striking paint job, called Apollo Blue, is available exclusively on GTS variants fitted with the factory performance kit launched earlier this year. The optional performance kit, available on …

Toyota has embarked an exciting new era of automotive design that is resulting in stronger, more attractive styling for its vehicles, according to one of the company’s Global Design Executives. Kevin Hunter – president of Toyota’s North American design studio, Calty – said Toyota’s global president Akio Toyoda had challenged …

The much anticipated next-generation Toyota Supra has been spotted at the Nurburgring again. Due for launch later this year, the new Supra has been a regular visitor to the Green Hell but this time around it spent considerably longer time at the test track, refuelling a total of 4 times …

It’s hard to tell the fourth-generation Toyota LandCruiser Prado has been on sale for eight years. This latest iteration, extensively updated in 2018, still looks as fresh as ever. It is the second major facelift since its launch in 2010 and it is incremental improvements like this that keep sending …