Every new Toyota coming to Australia: RAV4 hybrid, bZ4X Touring, electric Hilux, and more

Starting with the new-abilities Hilux in December ’25, the subsequent 365 days will peek tech modifications all over most of Toyota’s line-up, with by a ways the greatest files being the appearance of an all-new RAV4 Hybrid in unhurried-March, adopted by a shuffle-in hybrid (PHEV) model in the third quarter.

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• GR Corolla (upgrade) – Q1
• RAV4 HEV – unhurried Q1
• bZ4X Touring – Q2
• LC300 Efficiency Hybrid – H1
• Hilux BEV – H1
• RAV4 PHEV – Q3
• Future Toyota items

GR Corolla (upgrade)

Automobile form: Hatchback

Delivery: Q1

For MY26, the GR Corolla gains several “motorsport-inspired” enhancements, every supposed to remark increased driveability and engine cooling efficiency when driven on the restrict at a racetrack.

The chassis has been bolstered by technique of a 74 p.c broaden in structural adhesive, primarily in all places in the underbody and rear wheel wells to better take care of outrageous g-forces when the GR is being driven laborious. And a brand new chilly-air duct has been added to the secondary consumption duct, which opens at high engine speeds to additional minimize the air-consumption temperature.

The old eight-speaker JBL stereo now gets 9 audio system by technique of a new boot-mounted subwoofer, while the GR’s Active Noise Put watch over has been re-tuned the additional minimize undesirable engine noise and various sounds.

Active Sound Put watch over debuts to electronically expand the GR’s induction trace, with three assorted levels of intensity matched to every Power Mode.

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Original-abilities RAV4 Hybrid

Automobile form: Midsized SUV

Delivery: April

Anticipated to shut in showrooms in April, the total sixth-abilities RAV4 Hybrid vary has already been launched, in conjunction with the variant line-up (GX, GXL, Edge, XSE, Cruiser), pricing ($forty five,990 to $60,340 earlier than on-facet highway costs) and powertrain (a 143kW 2.5-litre petrol-electric four-cylinder hybrid engine with a CVT computerized transmission, and front- or all-wheel force).

Provided in 10 single-tone colours and four two-tone paint choices (reckoning on model grade), the gruesome GX specification brings darkish-grey 17-lunge alloys, LED headlamps, acoustic front-windscreen glass, roof rails, twin-zone native weather reduction watch over, a 12.3-lunge digital instrument cluster, fabric upholstery with six-manner manual front seat adjustment, a 10.5-lunge multimedia touchscreen, six audio system and 5 USB-C ports.

The Edge gets repositioned as an fling-focused upper-spec variant, now sitting below the XSE which gains 20-lunge alloys and fragment-suede orderly, while the flagship Cruiser ratings machined 20s, a panoramic sunroof, leather, a head-up veil, twin wireless phone charging and a 9-speaker JBL stereo.

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bZ4X Touring

Automobile form: Prolonged-body midsized SUV

Delivery: Q2

Revealed in Can also merely ’25, the bZ4X Touring arrives in Australia throughout the second quarter of ’26 as a cargo-focused wagon model of the no longer too lengthy ago up previously frequent bZ4X SUV crossover.

Adding 140mm in length in the reduction of the rear axle and a extra apt tailgate expands the bZ4X Touring’s baggage volume by approximately 30 p.c. Along with being provided fully in twin-motor AWD get packing 280kW (when compared to 252kW for the frequent bZ4X AWD), the bZ4X Touring will straight turn out to be essentially the most highly effective Toyota SUV to this level.

The Australian bZ4X Touring will feature the identical 74.7kWh lithium-ion battery, 150kW DC charging maximum and 22kW three-fragment AC charging because the frequent 2026 bZ4X. The European bZ4X Touring manages a 10-80 p.c mark in 28mins and nil-100km/h in a claimed 5.5sec.

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LandCruiser 300 Sequence Efficiency Hybrid

Automobile form: Spacious off-facet highway SUV

Delivery: H1

The first half of 2026 will peek the Tundra pick-up’s hybrid powertrain migrate to up-spec Sahara ZX and GR Sport grades of the LandCruiser 300 Sequence.

Featuring a twin-turbo 3.4-litre petrol V6 and a single electric motor-generator, this mixture provides the ‘efficiency hybrid’ powertrain quick torque and tough acceleration when maximum response is required.

In the Tundra, this ‘i-FORCE MAX’ powertrain is apt for 326kW and 790Nm, tied to a 10-wobble torque-converter computerized transmission.

The petrol engine is continually in operation at speeds above 30km/h, while the efficiency hybrid can plod fully on the electric motor at speeds below 30km/h. Yet the electric motor is extra about boosting rolling response or improving torque when below heavy load or when towing than providing an EV-esteem abilities.

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Hilux BEV

Automobile form: Ute

Delivery: H1

Some specs of the all-electric Hilux possess been published earlier than its originate here in the first half of 2026, with Toyota Australia claiming it’s going to predominantly be aimed at fleets and will sacrifice electric vary in favour of payload.

Primarily based fully on European-market files, the Hilux BEV will feature twin electric motors, an total torque output of 473Nm, and a 59.2kWh battery providing a WLTP vary of accurate 240km. However the electric Hilux will counter its restricted vary with a “tentative, pre-homologation” payload figure of 715kg – making it competitive with the diesel model

Toyota has moreover launched it’s going to import a gasoline-cell electric (FCEV) hydrogen-fuelled Hilux, promising circa-500km vary and increased towing capacity than the BEV, despite the undeniable truth that this won’t happen until 2028.

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RAV4 Amble-in Hybrid

Automobile form: Midsized SUV

Delivery: Q3

Australia’s first-ever shuffle-in hybrid RAV4 arrives in the third quarter in two orderly levels (XSE and GR Sport), with the XSE offering a single electric motor and front-force with 200kW and the twin-motor AWD (shared with the GR Sport) packing 227kW and a like a flash 0-100km/h claim of 5.8sec – making it effortlessly the quickest RAV4 in historical previous.

The GR Sport ($66,340) will be uniquely provided as a efficiency variant, with 20mm-wider front and rear tracks, efficiency front dampers, a rear body brace, and unfamiliar spring charges all spherical, plus a GR Sport-specific electric steering tune. It moreover gets unfamiliar front and rear bumpers, widened wheelarches and dark 20-lunge alloys with purple brake calipers.

A 22.7kWh lithium-ion battery helps 50kW DC charging and 11kW three-fragment AC charging, and offers around 100km of electrical WLTP vary, plus a 10-80 p.c charging time of around 30mins.

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Future Toyota items coming

Hungry for additional Toyota? Chasing Vehicles offers irregular coverage of several upcoming items with notional originate timings. Whereas unconfirmed, it’s doubtless that several of these autos will debut into the Australian marketplace for 2027 and previous.

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