New Toyota Prado sets record as it rockets onto sales podium

The launch of the Toyota Land Cruiser Prado 250 Series in Australia was accompanied by some initially lukewarm feedback — cool styling, shame about the Does the latest version of one of the most popular family 4WDs in Australia deliver on its promises in the long-term experience?

A year after Toyota ditched purely petrol options for its passenger cars and SUVs in favour of an all-hybrid offering, an electrified option has finally Designated a ‘performance hybrid’ with limited efficiency gains, will the LandCruiser 300 hybrid be worth considering over the safe-as-houses diesel?

First impressions count off-road, especially when climbing into the insanely hyped up 2025 Toyota Prado Kakadu. This new 250 Series generation, in its Six-figure family 4WD is a fine all-rounder but what's it like at tougher off-roading?

There’s only one contender for most-hyped new car of the past 12 months, and that’s the new-generation Toyota Prado. The big question is whether the The flagship Prado is now a $100,000–plus family 4WD, but is it six-figure good?

The Altitude is the rockstar of the new Toyota LandCruiser Prado 250 range. Toughest looking, most capable off-road and – by being five-seat only – has a The most capable, off-road suited Prado ever arrives with the new 250 Series, but is the new Altitude worthy of its lofty name?

It’s here. The first new generation Toyota LandCruiser Prado for 15 years, with retro boxy design, more capability, plusher cabin, better tech and price The first new-generation Toyota LandCruiser Prado in 15 years arrives with the weight of expectation heavy on its retro-styled shoulders.

Death, taxes and the fact that Toyota’s 70 Series Land Cruiser will get you into the bush and back home again without breaking a sweat: these are the By adding the Hilux’s 2.8L engine and automatic transmission, the 70 Series is now pitched at a broader range of buyers, but is it better than the tried-and-tested V8?

Australia loves the Toyota Land Cruiser, but in 2022 is this agricultural ute still worth it? Read our expert review to find out

The Toyota Land Cruiser Prado may be 13 years old, but Australians still buy this 4x4 in droves, we find out if its still stands up in 2022

On the July morning that our newest long termer, the 2026 RAV4 GXL AWD, landed in the Chasing Cars garage, Toyota’s medium SUV was about to celebrate its Australia’s most popular SUV, in desirable yet affordable GXL trim, has rolled into the Chasing Cars garage for a proper long-term test. Can it live up to the hype?

If you judge everything on face value, the Hilux BEV (for Battery Electric Vehicle) is an easy vehicle to dismiss. Glance over its stats and you might An electric version of our long-time favourite diesel dual-cab isn’t here to win over tradies – it’s a specialist ute designed for mine sites, with obvious real-world limitations

Despite the obvious fuel-economy benefits of running a turbo-diesel engine in a large 4WD, not everyone wants diesel. Sticky, stinky and increasingly If the Tundra’s ‘performance hybrid’ twin-turbo V6 powertrain in a LandCruiser 300 series sounds like a match made in heaven, your prayers have been answered.

Toyota’s electric BZ4X SUV-of-sorts has so far barely caused a ripple in the Australian sales charts. For two years running, it's achieved roughly 1000 For those who’d prefer a car-like vehicle instead of a bulky SUV, Toyota’s roomy, rapid, retuned bZ4X Touring proves that challenging urban motoring is more enjoyable at lower elevations.

The concept of a plug-in hybrid RAV4 (as opposed to a series-parallel one) isn’t new – the North Americans, Japanese and Europeans have been able to buy a Plug-in-hybrid RAV4 finally joins its regular hybrid sibling, bringing a GR Sport flagship, an upgraded powertrain and up to 122km of electric range.

The Toyota RAV4 doesn’t need a global oil crisis to achieve big sales, though the situation boosts its chances of beating diesel-powered utes to be Is the latest RAV4 the midsized hybrid SUV to beat?

One senses that, in recent times, Toyota Australia’s spectacular success with plugless hybrids has allowed the importer some degree of ambivalence in Cheaper pricing and longer range hopes to boost the fortunes of Toyota’s electric ‘SUV’ figurehead.

Australia’s new car sales reached record heights in 2025, pushing a slender 0.3 percent past 2024’s result with a total of 1,241,037 deliveries. The 100 best-selling vehicles in Australia in 2025, from the Ford Ranger ute to the Jaecoo J7 SUV

The Ford Ranger ute has become the best-selling vehicle in Australia outright for the third year in a row, with Toyota returning as the best-selling brand In a tumultuous year dominated by emissions standards, unpredictable demand for EVs and an influx of options from China, these are the numbers that tell the story

Australia’s new-car sales results are in for yet another record-setting March, with 111,617 sales reported through the Federal Chamber of Automobile New-car market shows signs of resilience. Incentive-driven? Probably, with plug-in hybrids having a particularly big March

Thanks for joining us this Monday March 31st 2025. Notably in car news today: Chasing Cars passes 200,000 YouTube subscribers, Australian enhanced Navara

Thanks for joining us this Wednesday 26th 2025. Notably in car news today: Toyota takes on Lexus in battle for 4WD supremacy, Peugeot’s new GTi gets

Thanks for joining us this Thursday 14 November 2024. Notably in car news today: Toyota Australia to cap customer orders on popular models to 12 months In car news: 2025 marks "no more open-ended" customer orders for popular Toyota models, and we compare Prado old versus new, and more.

Toyota has transformed its new LandCruiser Prado into an open-top ute concept called the ROX. The chunky and heavily modified off-road concept has a

The new-generation Toyota Land Cruiser Prado 250 Series is available globally with a turbo petrol hybrid engine option, but a Prado hybrid is still not

The Y63 generation of Nissan Patrol is coming to Australia at long last, with the order book opening on 27th August and deliveries beginning early next

While Toyota Australia has not confirmed we will be getting the 2026 LandCruiser FJ, it’s safe to say the demand is there for a smaller, more affordable The 2026 LandCruiser FJ has fired the internet up, but how much does it actually have in common with the FJ Cruiser, and does it even deserve the nameplate?

BYD’s luxury brand Denza will launch in Australia with the Prado-baiting body-on-frame B5 plug-in hybrid (PHEV) four-wheel drive — with Aussies able to China’s all-out salvo on the Prado starts with the plug-in hybrid Denza B5, which adapts Shark 6 mechanicals with a luxe cabin and greater off-road ability

GWM’s relatively new Tank brand, with us since 2021, is already making waves throughout Australia with the Tank 300‘s arrival. Next up in the family tree GWM’s new Tank 500 could be a cut-price adversary for the current Toyota Prado and the soon-arriving new generation

The disaster is the latest interruption to Toyota’s supply chain with customers already facing extensive wait times across almost all models.

Toyota Australia has again poured water on the idea of bringing a hybrid version of the 250 Series Prado to Australia and expressed doubt that PHEVs are As Toyota prepares to electrify its most iconic vehicle, the brand has reminded punters that hybridising 4x4s is still done on a case-by-case basis

Thanks for joining us this Thursday, May 15th 2025. Notably in car news today: Toyota has released pricing for its cheaper five-seat version of Prado GXL,

Toyota Australia has confirmed a cheaper and arguably more practical version of its popular Prado large SUV with the arrival of a five-seat version of the Cheaper, more practical and now available to buy in Australia, this might be the Prado many buyers have been waiting for.