2018 Prado

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Driving 2 or 4 wheels makes almost no Evonny difference. The direction the wind blows makes more of a difference.

Unless the hubs are free wheeling (not these days with 100kmh shift in the fly) you still turn all the extra axels and diffs in h2.


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True. All these pics of the prado in the flesh are from China and Toyota has a prado factory in Sichuan, China. So the h2 may just be a Chinese spec.

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True. All these pics of the prado in the flesh are from China and Toyota has a prado factory in Sichuan, China. So the h2 may just be a Chinese spec.

I think it is only designed for China because of competition from Everest, Haval, etc. The Chinese Manufactured Prado Petrol 3.5L prices from roughly 100K to 130k AUD before on road in China, while Everest and Haval are below 70K. With part time 4wd system (as Hilux?), it is rumoured to be lower, starting from just under 70K....

However, it has possibility that the next gen Prado will be influenced by Chinese market. Toyota sold more than 30000 Prado in China in the first half of 2017, so their deisgn takes more account of this market, just like US. And this market basically don't allow diesel family car despite huge interest from buyer, this market gives large incentive to new energy vehicle and penalty to large engine car, I suppose a hybrid is not too far.

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They just dropped the petrol so that makes no sense.


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Toyota designed the 1vdj 4.5 v8 diesel just for Australia so I don't think China will influence Australia product too much. After all this is the real birthplace of the landcruiser badge.

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Interesting numbers for the China market nonetheless. When you have those kind of volumes the brand can afford to develop engines just for them.

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If Toyota install all the new features noted in this tread so far including the two fuel tanks, I know what I will be upgrading to out of my current 150 series because they will certainly improve on a pretty good car already

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They just dropped the petrol so that makes no sense.


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They drop it because it doesn't sell well and it doesn't take money to drop. But for the new gen, it takes resource to develop, that's where influence might come.

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Some pics from Toyota plant in China.

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The front of basic model looks mining....

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Are there any updates on the engine.

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Are there any updates on the engine.

No rumor on the engine. The Chinese version only uses 3.5L petrol aspirated V6 engine, 7GR-FKS, replacing the 4.0 to meet stricter emission regulation.
Curious about any higher tune of 2.8 diesel. The Prado is just the slowest one among competitors, although we don't care about speed.

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I take it this is after its been crash rated by authorities?

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I take it this is after its been crash rated by authorities?

I think so.

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I take it this is after its been crash rated by authorities?

now if that had a bull bar it would have just buffed out

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toyotas have ALWAYS been behind the 8 ball in horsepowers, the ONLY exception is the 200