TheToyota Fortunerseven-seat SUV was axed in Australia in 2025 and not using a alternative being introduced, however a brand new era has been spied testing.
Photographs of an up to date model of the Ford Everest and Isuzu MU-X rival have been revealed by the Kurdistan Automotive Weblog, exhibiting a disguised Fortuner on a truck in Thailand, the place it’s made alongside the Toyota HiLux and different fashions.
The present Fortuner, which stays on sale in Australia till shares dry up, makes use of the Toyota HiLux ute’s ladder-frame chassis, 2.8-litre turbo-diesel four-cylinder engine and six-speed computerized transmission with four-wheel drive.
The up to date mannequin is predicted to observe the new-generation HiLux it is going to be primarily based on, which saved the identical doorways, roof, tub and underpinnings as its predecessor.
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The camouflaged Fortuner seems to have adopted the ‘squatting sumo’ front-end styling theme of the brand new HiLux – which was led by Toyota Australia Design – with styling tweaks to the rear finish.
The Fortuner cabin can also be anticipated to observe the look of the HiLux inside, which noticed enter from the Australian design workforce however was led out of Japan.
Toyota Australia informed CarExpert it has no plans to introduce the up to date mannequin to Australia, and it nonetheless has a number of months of inventory of the present mannequin, with 240 examples delivered in January 2026.
When it introduced the top of Fortuner for Australia, then Toyota vice chairman of gross sales and advertising Sean Hanley stated consumers have been transferring into the HiLux and LandCruiser Prado as a substitute.
The Fortuner stays on sale within the Center East, India, Cambodia and Mexico – and different markets – with turbo-diesel and petrol fashions supplied.
This features a 2.7-litre naturally aspirated petrol – beforehand supplied in HiLux in Australia – and a 4.0-litre petrol V6 with an eight-speed computerized. In Australia, it was solely ever supplied with a 2.8-litre turbo-diesel 4.
A complete of 3407 Fortuners have been delivered in Australia in 2025 – a 12 per cent enhance yr over yr – making a modest contribution to Toyota’s 239,863 gross sales, which noticed the model high the native gross sales charts for the twenty fourth consecutive yr.
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