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"Toyota’s LandCruiser Prado is the only vehicle in its class to reach 200,000 sales in Australia, and it’s growing in popularity – it took Toyota around 10 years to reach 100,000 sales, but only seven more to double that number.
Toyota Australia’s executive director sales and marketing Matthew Callachor said the sales milestone indicates the huge and loyal following amassed by the Prado since it arrived here in 1996.
He said, “It was Australia’s top-selling large SUV in 2012 with sales jumping more than 57 per cent to a record 17,045 deliveries – or a grand total for Prado in this country of just over 197,000 units.
“This month we have passed the 200,000 mark, although it is impossible to determine the exact date, the specific vehicle or the customer.”
Toyota is also the best-selling SUV brand across the board, with 2012 sales growing 25.9 per cent to a record 58,745 vehicles – more than 21,000 units ahead of any other marque. Along with Prado, Toyota’s other SUVs – Kluger, FJ Cruiser, Rav4 and LandCruiser wagon – posted healthy gains.
Mr Callachor said milestones were not a focus, but a measure of how well Toyota and its dealers provided customers with quality vehicles and service, “We are grateful for the loyalty shown by such a large number of Australians from all walks of life who continue to put their faith in Toyota, our dealer network and LandCruiser Prado.”
LandCruiser Prado has 14 variants. The five-door family wagon starts with a GX grade offering five or seven seats, and powered by a 3.0-litre common-rail direct-injection turbodiesel engine.
Pricing for five-door variants starts at $55,990 for the five-seat GX turbo-diesel manual. The three-door variants are priced from $56,090."
Article by Adam Swift
Toyota Australia’s executive director sales and marketing Matthew Callachor said the sales milestone indicates the huge and loyal following amassed by the Prado since it arrived here in 1996.
He said, “It was Australia’s top-selling large SUV in 2012 with sales jumping more than 57 per cent to a record 17,045 deliveries – or a grand total for Prado in this country of just over 197,000 units.
“This month we have passed the 200,000 mark, although it is impossible to determine the exact date, the specific vehicle or the customer.”
Toyota is also the best-selling SUV brand across the board, with 2012 sales growing 25.9 per cent to a record 58,745 vehicles – more than 21,000 units ahead of any other marque. Along with Prado, Toyota’s other SUVs – Kluger, FJ Cruiser, Rav4 and LandCruiser wagon – posted healthy gains.
Mr Callachor said milestones were not a focus, but a measure of how well Toyota and its dealers provided customers with quality vehicles and service, “We are grateful for the loyalty shown by such a large number of Australians from all walks of life who continue to put their faith in Toyota, our dealer network and LandCruiser Prado.”
LandCruiser Prado has 14 variants. The five-door family wagon starts with a GX grade offering five or seven seats, and powered by a 3.0-litre common-rail direct-injection turbodiesel engine.
Pricing for five-door variants starts at $55,990 for the five-seat GX turbo-diesel manual. The three-door variants are priced from $56,090."
Article by Adam Swift
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