Maximum power and torque is 130kW and 450Nm (auto) 420Nm for the manual.
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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.” 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”.
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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.
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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. MOTORING JOURNOS ARE notoriously difficult to please.