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Australia's favourite cars revealed: 'Disturbing Trend' sees market shrink but 2025 Toyota RAV4 hybrid bucks the trend to beat Ford Ranger and Toyota HiLux in November new-car sales
By John Law · 04 Dec 2024
The Toyota RAV4 hybrid topped sales charts again in November, but it isn’t likely to take the number one spot from the Ford Ranger this year.
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'No one car company is going to dominate like it has': Toyota expects SUVs like RAV4 to overtake utes as Australia's best selling vehicle as fierce new competitors like BYD Shark, Kia Tasman, GWM Cannon Alpha and more eat into HiLux and Ford Ranger sales
By John Law · 18 Nov 2024
With Toyota’s evergreen HiLux being knocked from first place by the Ford Ranger and now the RAV4, Australia’s largest car brand sees big changes coming. 
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Too little too late for the new Toyota HiLux? Fresh reports point to worrying signs for ageing workhorse as Kia Tasman, BYD Shark 6 and Ford Ranger PHEV prepare to muscle in
By Andrew Chesterton · 11 Nov 2024
Fresh reports point to worrying signs for the Toyota HiLux, with the latest coverage suggesting a new model won't arrive until 2026 – and that when it does, that it will be a revised, rather than all-new, model.
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Will the 2025 Kia Tasman really 'redefine' the ute sector? How Kia's new Tasman lines up in an on-paper comparison against Ford Ranger, Toyota HiLux and Isuzu D-Max
By Samuel Irvine · 04 Nov 2024
Kia has released its first ute with the ambitious target of capturing 10 per cent of Australia's highly competitive pick-up market in its first year of sales.
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Most expensive ever! 2025 Isuzu D-Max Blade pricing revealed, but Ford Ranger Tremor, Nissan Navara Warrior and Toyota HiLux Rogue should be worried
By Byron Mathioudakis · 25 Oct 2024
The most expensive yet capable Isuzu D-Max ute ever sold in Australia has landed, targeting the likes of the Nissan Navara Warrior, Ford Ranger Tremor and Toyota HiLux Rogue. Developed, modified and tuned in Melbourne by the Walkinshaw Automotive Groupe for Isuzu Ute Australia (IUA), the D-Max Blade 4x4 goes on sale in Australia on November 1, priced from $76,990 driveaway.
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The end of diesel dual-cab dominance: Forget the 2025 Toyota HiLux and Ford Ranger, Australia will soon have a new best-selling vehicle - and it's not a ute but the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid SUV
By Andrew Chesterton · 05 Oct 2024
The end of diesel dual-cab dominance could at last be upon us, with Toyota predicting the end of the HiLux's reign as the brand's best-selling vehicle, while also tipping the next model to be Australia's number one.
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Next-gen Toyota HiLux 2026 ute could be set for a game-changing 2.0-litre turbo petrol engine: report
By Samuel Irvine · 25 Sep 2024
Could Toyota’s new turbocharged four-cylinder engine – designed to succeed the iconic 2JZ in-line six engine – be HiLux-bound as part of the ute's next-generation model expected to be revealed in 2025?
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'We're not giving up on HiLux': Toyota promises big things coming to take on Ford Ranger, GWM Cannon Alpha and BYD Shark plug-in hybrids with 2025 HiLux
By Andrew Chesterton · 17 Sep 2024
If Toyota is worried about the overnight unveiling of the Ford Ranger PHEV, it isn't showing it, vowing not to give up on HiLux and promising that there is big news incoming.
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Move over dual cab utes: The 2024 Toyota RAV4 hybrid takes Australia's best-selling crown ahead of Ford Ranger and Toyota HiLux in another record-breaking July for new-car sales
By John Law · 05 Aug 2024
The Toyota RAV4 was Australia’s favourite vehicle last month, overtaking the incumbent utes and notching up 5933 sales. The Ford Ranger (4915) and Toyota HiLux (4747) trailed Australia’s favourite SUV, with Toyota once again taking overall honours. Mazda managed to keep its head above Ford with both maintaining a solid gap back to fourth-placed Kia. It was another record-breaking July with 99,486 registrations recorded enough to beat last year’s result by 2.7 per cent. Year-to-date, sales are at 731,898 — up 7.9 per cent on last year’s record numbers.“This is a remarkable achievement in an economy featuring widespread cost of living pressures,” noted Federal Chamber of Automobile Industries (FCAI) head Tony Weber. “It was also interesting to note that while sales in the Business and Government segments were up 13.7 per cent and 37.5 per cent respectively, Private sales were down 4.2 per cent,” added Weber. Hybrid sales were also buoyant up 88.4 per cent on last year with plug-in hybrid sales up 128.9 per cent. The share of electric cars fell slightly to 6.6 per cent. “While the first seven months of 2024 have exceeded expectations, the industry remains cautious about the future pending the implementation of the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard coupled with the economic conditions,” cautioned Weber.Toyota is riding the popularity of hybrid vehicles keeping its head in first place with 22,705 sales last month and climbing back to an impressive 22.8 per cent market share.The battle between Ford (57,371) and Mazda (57,023) is nail-bitingly close, the former having a slower July (7749 vs 8476) but managing to hold second place year-to-date by a slim 348 car margin. Kia remains in a strong fourth followed by Mitsubishi, Hyundai, Isuzu, MG, Nissan and Subaru.As for models, the Corolla hatch and sedan had an extremely strong sales month with 2688 registrations with its sparring partner, the Hyundai i30 (663), nowhere to be seen as the company waits for the updated hatch to arrive (though with Kia Cerato sales up significantly to 1592). Then came the Isuzu D-Max ute, Ford Everest large SUV, the Mitsubishi Outlander and Mazda CX-5 mid-size SUVs and the MG ZS small SUV. The Toyota Kluger rounded out the top 10, beating the LandCruiser to the punch. Tesla’s sales were weaker in July with just 1353 Model Y and 1239 Model 3 registrations not enough to see either model climb into the overall top 10. By state and territory, the Northern Territory, South Australia, New South Wales and Western Australia all improved their positions while the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria had small sips (less than two per cent). Sales in Tasmania were down 12 per cent.
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