Toyota Fortuner safe in Australia after New Zealand axing

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Toyota Fortuner safe in Australia after New Zealand axing

Toyota has quietly axed its

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large SUV in New Zealand, though it’s confirmed it won’t be doing the same in Australia.

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reports the

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-based SUV was dropped from Toyota’s local website in recent months, with a spokesperson confirming it would no longer be sold amidst the electrification of the brand’s lineup.

“In our focus to provide a range of electrified powertrains and lower our emissions with a balanced product portfolio, we have decided to no longer offer Fortuner in New Zealand,” the Toyota NZ spokesperson told Stuff.

“We have now cleared out of all units and it’s not in our future production plans so has effectively been discontinued from our lineup.”

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It’s a different story here though, as a Toyota Australia spokesperson told CarExpert there would be no changes regarding the Fortuner for the foreseeable future.

The confirmation comes despite the SUV being one of the brand’s lowest-selling models locally. In 2023, Toyota delivered 3619 examples of the Fortuner to *********** customers, beating only the

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(2098),

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(1144) and other niche models.

It’s also proven far less popular than the

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, which notched up four times the deliveries of the Fortuner last year (15,071 examples), with the 14,139

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also comprehensively ahead of Toyota’s competitor.

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In Toyota’s *********** large SUV lineup the Fortuner joins the

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and

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, though it shares a platform with the HiLux ute and offers a body-on-frame construction.

It’ll soon be joined by the updated

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, which will offer larger dimensions and mild-hybrid technology – albeit for much more money. There aren’t any hybrid or electric options available for the Fortuner, which reportedly contributed to its demise in New Zealand.

New Zealand’s Clean Car Standard came into effect on January 1, 2023. Under the scheme, vehicle importers are charged for importing vehicles with a CO₂ emission-to-weight ratio above a set target, and receive credits for vehicles that have emissions below the set target.

This means companies can still continue to import vehicles with higher CO₂ emissions like utes and large SUVs, but they need to be offset by more environmentally friendly vehicles.

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Australia will soon introduce the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES), which will go into effect on January 1, 2025, with penalties to come into effect on July 1, 2025 for cars that don’t meet the new emissions regulations.

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, car companies have a CO2 target that will get stricter each year. If they meet or beat it, they’ll receive credits.

If they miss it, they can either trade credits with a different supplier, make it up over a set *******, or pay a penalty of $100 per gram of CO₂ per kilometre over their target.

Toyota has announced it’ll move a significant portion of its *********** models to

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, while it offers only one all-electric model in the form of the

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. The Fortuner is one of the few models yet to receive hybrid tech, and it’s unclear how it will hold up under changing regulations.

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