Toyota fortuner 2016 review australia
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On-road, the Fortuner is open-road smooth at all times, quiet and stable. Visibility from the driver’s seat is more than generous with open spaces all-round. The paddle shifts will seem like a nice touch for some, but we reckon they’re wasted here. Our Crusade also had a 100W, 220V power socket.ĭriving position is nice, high and secure the seats are comfortable and offer plenty of support. Nice touches include 4kg capacity shopping bag hooks on the back of the front seats and three 12V outlets. There is stacks of head- and legroom in the front and second-row but the third row, as expected, is really for kids only. If the design team drops the wooden trim from the next Fortuner version, it wouldn’t be too great a loss. Crusade’s fit and finish, hand-stitched everywhere, is good but unspectacular. It looks good not too city-smooth, as do plenty of modern-day 4WDs, but country tough with class.
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The Fortuner, shorter and narrower than Kluger and Prado, is chunky and solid it looks like a mad scientist fused a LandCruiser, Prado and Kluger together, threw in a bit of RAV4 for a laugh and then pumped the resulting mix full of steroids. The drive program took us from Port Augusta through the Flinders Ranges, Rawnsley Park Station, Wilpena Pound with some good 4WDing include. We focussed on the Crusade (RRP $61,990 in Phantom Brown, an extra $550) for this launch review.
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Braked towing capacity is listed as 3000kg (manual) and 2800kg (auto). Fuel consumption is a claimed 7.8L/100km (combined) for the manual and 8.6L/100km (auto). It’s $2000 extra for the auto box. Maximum power and torque is 130kW and 450Nm (auto) 420Nm for the manual. All have the proven 2.8-litre four-cylinder common-rail direct-injection turbo-diesel engine with a six-speed manual or auto box. The diesel-only seven-seat Fortuner is being offered here in three variants: GX, GXL and top-of-the-range Crusade. “It’s a great choice for people who aspire to a luxury SUV … they want a stylish vehicle, they want seven seats and the safety of a high-seating position and great visibility they also want genuine 4X4 ability.”
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Fortuner will give us a significant slice of that action. “Fortuner is positioned perfectly between Kluger and Prado diesel alternatives to Kluger are selling around 1400 vehicles a month, or almost 17,000 a year. “Fortuner definitely lives up to the promise of its road-less-travelled 4WD heritage,” Cramb said at the launch. The Fortuner may only be the latest of many additions to the confusion of choice that is a booming SUV market segment, but Toyota has a steely-eyed confidence about it. If I’d actually counted, I think the word “unique” was uttered more than 20 times during the press briefing before we were given the opportunity to drive the Fortuner and make up our own mind. I reckon he was getting close to spot-on. Consensus was that the Fortuner, to anonymously quote one of the aforementioned scribes, was “pretty bloody good”. And, no, it wasn’t due to the soothing bush atmosphere and fantastic scenery, the great food (seemingly appearing at 10-minute intervals) or the wonderfully varied driving route. Often, according to them, their seat on the plane to the launch was not close enough to the pilot’s or there’s a lack of luggage space in the newest sports car (there’s a surprise!) or the newest ute on the block was skittish around corners with no load in the back (also a revelation).īut during this week’s launch of Toyota’s Fortuner, staged in and around South Australia’s Flinders Ranges, the hard-done-by pack of penmen seemed strangely sated. Towing capacity is a rather useful 2800kg (3000kg for manual) eclipsing the Kluger (2000kg) and Prado (2500kg).MOTORING JOURNOS ARE notoriously difficult to please. Off the road, in the rough, the Fortuner is assured and confident, Toyota's four-wheel drive pedigree holding it in good stead and keeping it nimble on steep rocky hills and descents and with a wading depth of 700mm, very competent at water crossings too. Clearly, this is more a family wagon than a sporty sensation so the paddle shifters are a funny addition. The Fortuner is easy to steer and park although the steering wheel itself can feel a bit vague with little feedback for the driver. On the bitumen in rear-wheel drive mode the Fortuner made much calmer progress than I expected and although the ride is firm it managed to soak up irregularities with ease with none of that jiggling you would take as given.Īcceleration is steady with the torque on hand making it easy to move a vehicle of this size and it is capable around corners with the stability control kicking in quickly should you get a tad overzealous behind the wheel. The Fortuner was tested extensively and tuned for Australian conditions and that work certainly shows in driving comfort.