Toyota Kluger Reviews | Overview

IN Global phrases, Australia has a distinctive link with the Toyota Kluger.

We’re the only state outdoors of the US and Japan to receive all 4 generations – while we did not get technology a single until finally its mid-life facelift – and we’re also the only location outdoors of Japan to contact it ‘Kluger’ courtesy of Hyundai trademarking ‘Highlander’ – the Kluger’s nameplate in all other markets.

So technology 4 is fairly important for Toyota in Australia – not only because it debuts an all-new GA-K platform, shared with the current Camry and RAV4, but also because it has the likely to challenge Toyota’s own Prado 4×4 as the reigning product sales champ among the big SUVs.

If the RAV4 is any guidebook, the ace up Kluger’s sleeve is the optional hybrid drivetrain readily available throughout all trim amounts, solely with a sophisticated ‘eFour’ AWD method and a consistently variable computerized transmission (CVT).

Right up until Hyundai’s Santa Fe Hybrid launches later in the yr, the fourth-gen Kluger will be the only big SUV to give a hybrid model in Australia, even while a Kluger Hybrid has been readily available globally because 2005!

Exactly where this fourth-technology model actually needs to carry Kluger’s match, on the other hand, is in phrases of seating comfort and functionality, interior good quality, and experience comfort.

Now that the new Kluger/Highlander is a genuine international model (heading to the United kingdom and Europe for the initially time, solely in Hybrid variety), its ambitions need to lengthen far further than merely satisfying Middle The us.

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