When is the new Toyota Prado coming to Australia?

Toyota Australia stays tight-lipped about the subsequent-generation Prado, nonetheless its time must be coming quickly.

The Toyota Prado in showrooms these days dates back again to 2009 – and even shares its DNA with the preceding design.

Offered the system is now additional than 20 years aged, when is the new product owing?

The Prado is now just one of the oldest platforms in the Toyota line-up, so a new design are not able to be much too far absent.

The Toyota LandCruiser 300 Sequence arrived 14 yrs following the 200 Series went on sale a new Toyota HiLux comes the moment each individual 10 many years or so.

The only car or truck older than the Prado in Toyota Australia showrooms nowadays is the LandCruiser 70 Series which is almost 40 years previous – and but is even now sold out for two to three a long time.

Travel recently put the following concerns to the income and advertising and marketing manager of Toyota Australia, Sean Hanley, who sad to say gave practically nothing away.

What can we notify our audience to give them some perception into next Toyota Prado? Ought to we be indicating a new model is just one-to-two a long time absent or two-to-3 several years away?

“I really can not remark. I have no day (to share with you) on any new Prado and almost nothing to say on any new Prado besides to say it can be a terrific motor vehicle, remain on it,” Mr Hanley advised Drive. “The current Prado is marketing perfectly and prospective buyers enjoy it.”

Is it doable the next-technology Toyota Prado could undertake turbo diesel V6 power, a detuned edition of the Toyota LandCruiser 300 Sequence motor?

“I are not able to go there. I know it is your career, but I am not prepared to remark on speculation.”

Will the next-technology Toyota Prado or upcoming-era Toyota HiLux go on sale very first?

“You know I are unable to go there. We really don’t examine foreseeable future model designs. All I can say is (Prado) is a very significant car or truck will normally perform a very crucial purpose in our model line-up in Australia. So there is certainly usually a little something to search forward to.”