Toyota promises “one more surprise” due for Hilux ute in 2024

The most fresh-period Toyota Hilux has been on sale since 2015 nonetheless is determined to preserve in the headspace of customers as Australia’s reigning perfect-promoting car approaches its twilight years.

Talking at the launch event of the unique flagship Hilux GR Sport variant, Toyota Australia vp of gross sales and marketing Sean Hanley promised extra used to be yet to come.

“The appearance of the forty eight-volt battery will likely be the third predominant replace for Hilux since October final yr,” he acknowledged, adding that “we set up no longer maintain any lower than one extra Hilux shock in store for next yr.”

The wording “no lower than” perhaps indicates no longer acceptable that shall we soundless request one extra replace in 2024, nonetheless that extra plans are brewing for 2025 that will most definitely be brought ahead.

Since October, Toyota has launched a critically updated Rogue variant, ushering in updates equivalent to four-wheel disc brakes and a unparalleled broader monitor, sooner than later introducing forty eight-volt expertise on make a choice grades – the first time a hybrid system has been seen on a Hilux.

Staying trustworthy to its ‘many eggs, many baskets’ capability to pursuing a zero emissions future, Toyota has also no longer too long ago proven off an awfully-electrical idea of the Hilux identified because the Revo BEV, while in the UK the native division is producing a hydrogen-electrical model with a focused riding differ of 590km of differ.

Earlier this yr, Toyota unveiled its all-unique Tacoma pick-up in The States, a car the same in size to the Hilux nonetheless designed for the left-hand-force North American market. The Hilux is expected to monitor swimsuit with its next-period replace due in both dull 2024 or 2025.

It’s fully unclear what the future ‘surprises’ will likely be nonetheless a novel variant primarily based entirely totally on the most modern period is the presumably addition, as Toyota will understandably gape to sustain its gross sales momentum.

One thing else planned for 2025 or beyond is extra likely to be piece of an all-unique period.

While the Hilux maintained its set up because the very best-promoting car in Australia in 2022, more fresh opponents such because the Ford Ranger backed by strong present to our market tag a in actuality proper possibility to this outright gross sales dominance.