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Toyota Connected Services Delivers Greater Functionality

March 9, 2022

Toyota has expanded the availability and functionality of Toyota Connected Services offering more customers greater peace of mind and enhanced convenience (Indicative image only).   Toyota has expanded the availability and functionality of its advanced Toyota Connected Services1 (TCS) technology, delivering greater peace of mind and enhanced convenience to even more customers. The new TCS convenience features are now available on the all-new LandCruiser 300 Series, HiLux, Fortuner, Yaris Cross, Camry, Granvia, and HiAce. All the...

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Toyota Wins Two Drive Car of the Year Awards

March 8, 2022

Toyota Corolla SX – named Australia’s best first car (petrol hatch shown).   Toyota’s popular Corolla SX is the best choice for Australians wanting to purchase their first new car, according to experts at leading automotive website, drive.com.au. And if your motoring needs require a large SUV, then the Drive team recommends buying the popular seven-seat family SUV, Toyota Kluger. Corolla SX and Kluger won their respective categories in the 2022 Drive Car of the Year...

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Toyota Australia Recalls Vehicles Due to Millimetre Wave Sensor

February 25, 2022

Toyota Australia has today announced that it will initiate a safety recall involving Toyota C-HR, Yaris, Yaris Cross and GR Yaris vehicles produced between May 2020 – August 2021 (inclusive). There are approximately 18,490 vehicles involved in the Australian market. The subject vehicles are equipped with a Millimetre Wave Sensor (radar sensor) and a camera to detect objects, such as another vehicle in front of the subject vehicle. The radar sensor used by the Pre-Collision...

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Toyota Takes Cowboys Partnership into Third Decade

February 24, 2022

Toyota VP Sean Hanley and Cowboys CEO Jeff Reibel with Toyota LandCruiser GR Sport.     Toyota Australia and the company’s North Queensland dealers have extended their partnership with the North Queensland Toyota Cowboys rugby league team for at least the next three seasons. The new agreement ensures the long-term partnership, now entering its 20th year, will continue until the end of the 2024 season – ranking it as one of the most enduring in...

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Early Adopters Drive a Hydrogen Future with the Toyota Mirai

February 14, 2022

Dr Alan Finkel, Special Adviser to the Australian Government on Low Emissions Technology refuels his new Toyota Mirai at the Toyota Hydrogen Centre at Altona, Victoria   Progressive organisations and businesses are continuing to drive the development of a hydrogen-fuelled transport future with Dr Alan Finkel, energy retailer Red Energy, hydrogen fuel-cell bus and truck manufacturer Hyzon, Telstra, and Melbourne’s Yarra Council among the latest to take delivery of a new Toyota Mirai fuel-cell electric...

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Toyota GAZOO Racing Takes Victory in Dakar in Saudi Arabia

January 18, 2022

Nasser Al-Attiyah and co-driver Mathieu Baumel celebrate their overall victory in Dakar in Saudi Arabia   TOYOTA GAZOO Racing’s Nasser Al-Attiyah and co-driver Mathieu Baumel have taken overall victory in the Dakar Rally, one of the world’s most gruelling off-road rallies held in Saudi Arabia over the past two weeks. The Qatari/French pair led from the start in their new GR DKR HiLux T1+ that performed faultlessly in the harsh conditions to give Al-Attiyah his...

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Toyota Marks 25 Years as Australia’s Best-Selling Automotive Brand

January 6, 2022

Toyota Australia President & CEO Matthew Callachor with Australia’s top selling vehicle for 2021 Toyota HiLux, top selling SUV Toyota RAV4 (vehicle shown with optional extras) and top selling passenger vehicle Toyota Corolla.   Toyota is marking 25 years as the best-selling automotive brand in Australia with a pledge to bring an even greater customer focus to its operations. Vice President Sales, Marketing & Franchise Operations Sean Hanley said Toyota’s kaizen (continuous improvement) culture would...

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Toyota Accelerates Carbon-Neutral Plans Including BEVs

December 20, 2021

Akio Toyoda introduces 16 new BEVs at global press conference.   Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) today introduced 16 battery-electric vehicles and announced investments totalling 8.0 trillion yen (almost $100 billion AUD) in carbon-reducing and carbon-neutral vehicles and technologies between now and 2030. The 16 new battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) shown today are among 30 new BEVs TMC plans to roll out by 2030, resulting in a comprehensive line-up of electric passenger-cars, SUVs and commercial vehicles. During...

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Toyota Opens State-of-the-Art Product Centre at Altona Centre of Excellence

December 10, 2021

Toyota has opened its new $40 million Product Centre as part of the Toyota Centre of Excellence redevelopment of its former manufacturing site at Altona, Victoria. Toyota Australia is continuing to invest in Australian innovation and expertise, opening a state-of-the-art Product Centre at its Centre of Excellence (CoE) facility in Altona, Victoria. The new Product Centre brings together all of Toyota’s local planning, design, engineering and evaluation teams in the same facility, ensuring the world-class...

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Toyota starts customer deliveries of All-New LandCruiser 300 series

December 5, 2021

Toyota has begun the first customer deliveries of its all-new LandCruiser 300 Series (GR Sport shown) Toyota has today made the first customer delivery of the all-new LandCruiser 300 Series, marking the start of retail sales of the legendary SUV. The resumption of right-hand drive LandCruiser production in Japan in November has seen customer orders start to arrive in Australia, following initial demonstrator only availability in Dealerships to support test drives at launch of the...

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