2012 Hilux breaks cover
Toyota has revealed details of its revised-for-2012 Hilux bakkie, launched in Europe today and due for SA disseminate within the next three months.
The cabin has been extensively restyled with a new upper dashboard and horizontal centre instrument crowd to reinforce the breadth and roominess of the cabin.
Darker finishes throughout with more colour consistency - and the addition of some alert-metal trim - are intended to improve perceived quality, says Toyota.
But the big changes are on the surface, where everything in front of the A pillars is new - bonnet, grille, headlights and front bumpers. Front and rear wings are also new, framing redesigned 15" and 17" stiletto and alloy rims, as are the door mirrors.
Perhaps it would be easier to say the doors, roof and tailgate are unchanged; everything else is new!
In a shrewd bit of parts-bin engineering, two-wheel drive models now have the same heavy-duty, high-rise chassis as their all-disc drive stable-mates, simplifying production, improving ground clearance and increasing the two-circle drive models' towing capacity to 2.5 tons.
