New 2012 Toyota HiLux review - Cars Guide
Toyota is polishing up the HiLux team, readying for a fierce season as new and improved players take to the ute field. The HiLux, as a two and four-wheel drive, remains the country's favourite ute but faces renewed attack with the imminent arrival of all-new Ford Rangers, Mazda BT-50s and Holden Colorado. So with Toyota's seventh-generation HiLux now six years old and an all-new range at least three years away it's time for a refresh with price cuts, new sheet metal, a repositioning of models, recalibrated two-wheel drive suspension, ABS standard... And with Australians looking more to utes as dual-purpose family vehicles, the spotlight here falls on the HiLux heroes — four-wheel drive Double and Xtra cabs. So for HiLux there's now an entry-level, Workmate four-wheel drive dual cab under $40,000 (almost $6000 cheaper than the previous lowest-priced diesel Double cab) and price cuts up to $3650 across the dual cab line-up. The four-wheel drive SR5 Xtra cab has dropped $5650 and the dearest HiLux is now the auto diesel, four-wheel drive SR5 Double Cab at $53,490, just $250 dearer than the equivalent Nissan Navara and $100 more than the equivalent new Ford Ranger in... Source: www.carsguide.com.au
