Features overview
The Toyota Prado comes with a range of car features and clever design elements that equip it for many conceivable off road situations while ensuring that it is a completely practical and comfortable car about town.
It's an immensely powerful car, whether you elect for the 4.0L Dual VVT-i V6 engine or the 3.0L Turbo Diesel engine. And yet, advanced technologies and clever innovations make the Prado more fuel efficient than ever.
The Prado is available as a 5 door (the GX, the GXL, the VX and the Kakadu) and as a 3 door (the SX and the ZR), in either 5 seater or, for grades with 5 door, 7 seater configurations. Each model offers masses of space for driver, passengers and luggage with highly flexible seating configuration enabling you to create extra cargo space when you need it.
The Prado generates awesome amounts of torque so it can tow practically anything anywhere and help get you out of tough off-road situations.
The Prado comes with world-class safety features including seven SRS airbags , AB-i (Active braking with intelligence) , Vehicle Stability Control (VSC) and Traction Control (TRC) among others.
The car features a raft of 4WD innovations including Hill-start Assist (automatic models only) and CRAWL Control[D2] to give you more control in off road situations. Which means you can go pretty well anywhere you like. Yet it offers all mod cons, fantastic audio and virtually every kind of driver and passenger comfort you can think of.
So as well as taking the off-road in its stride, the Prado is a practical and extremely comfortable on-roader too.Car performance
The V6 petrol driven Prado boasts a 6-cylinder Dual Variable Valve Timing with intelligence (VVT-i) engine that pumps out 202kW of power and 381Nm of torque. Yet, while the car's performance is awesome, for all the hard work going on under the bonnet, it's surprisingly quiet and economical too.
While the Prado looks seriously impressive on the outside, the interior design of the car is world class, too.
Smart Entry and Smart Start , a feature across the range, allows the vehicle to be locked or unlocked without even removing the key from your pocket. Thanks to built-in antennae and touch sensors, if your keys are in your pocket or bag, the car knows when you're close and unlocks itself when you touch the door handle. The same principle is used for Smart Start - if they keys are in your pocket or bag, you simply push the brake and the start button to start the engine.
Car ownership
The many benefits of owning a Prado include easy finance, leading-edge 4WD technology, proven reliability and the drive of your life.
Car technology
We have spent more than 50 years researching, testing and building 4WDs. By constantly improving our technologies and introducing smart innovations at every opportunity, we have created a generation of awesomely powerful off-roaders that can deal with the most challenging terrain.
Car safety
We have introduced many innovations across the entire Prado range to help protect passengers and pedestrians in the event of a collision. Perhaps more importantly, we have also included advanced technologies and systems to help reduce the likelihood of accidents from happening in the first place.
Variable Valve Timing with intelligence (VVT-i)
Toyota engine system that provides continual variations of the intake valve timing to provide optimal valve timing for the full range of driving conditions. It improves driveability, performance and fuel efficiency, and reduces emissions. Dual VVT-i provides even greater improvement, by independently varying exhaust valve timing as well as intake timing. Image shown for illustration purposes only.
Supplemental Restraint System (SRS)
Active Braking with intelligence (AB-i)
Active Braking with intelligence (AB-i) is a system designed to help stop quickly and safely in an emergency. The AB-i system uses continuous feedback from sensors in the wheels to ensure that brakeforce is applied as effectively as possible whatever the driving conditions.
Vehicle Stability Control (VSC)
System that ensures control in cornering situations the way ABS does under braking and TRC does under acceleration. The VSC system utilises electronic sensors in conjunction with the ABS and TRC hardware to help control any potential understeer or oversteer situations. Understeer is when the vehicle loses front-wheel traction and wants to push forward nose first. Oversteer is when the rear wheels lose traction and the tail begins to slide.
Traction Control (TRC)
System designed to maximise safety when accelerating on slippery road surfaces or when the available grip differs from one side of the vehicle to the other (such as when two wheels are on a gravel or grass verge). Operated by controlling the throttle and/or applying the brakes to any wheel that is slipping. Image shown for illustration purposes only.
Hill-start Assist Control (HAC)
Automatic function that prevents the vehicle rolling downhill when starting off. It is particularly helpful on low-traction surfaces and when driving off road. Image shown for illustration purposes only.
Variable Valve Timing with intelligence (VVT-i)
Toyota engine system that provides continual variations of the intake valve timing to provide optimal valve timing for the full range of driving conditions. It improves driveability, performance and fuel efficiency, and reduces emissions. Dual VVT-i provides even greater improvement, by independently varying exhaust valve timing as well as intake timing. Image shown for illustration purposes only.
Smart Start Button
Smart Start (or Push Button Start) provides push-button engine start and stop. It operates when the fob is within range of the internal antennae. Image shown for illustration purposes only.
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Toyota Service Advantage
Toyota Service Advantage is one of the stand-out features of owning a Prado. Included as standard, Toyota Service Advantage offers low cost, capped price, standard logbook services at $210 for the first 3 years or 60,000km, whichever occurs first[T1].