This is when you can order a 2025 Toyota LandCruiser Prado: arrival timing firms for new 4WD SUV rival to the Ford Everest and Nissan Patrol

Toyota Australia has narrowed down its expected arrival timing for the new generation of an Aussie favourite, the Prado 4WD.

The new 2025 Toyota LandCruiser Prado, to give it its full title, was locked in with its Australian variant range and pricing a couple of months ago, but arrival timing was only a rough timeline.

Now, Toyota Australia says customers will be able to order the new Prado from the end of August, with deliveries expected to commence at the end of the year after a quarter four, 2024 launch.

On top of this, Toyota has also confirmed the fuel consumption figures for Australia, with the range of variants all using the same 48-volt ‘V-Active’ tech for its 2.8-litre four-cylinder turbo-diesel engine.

Toyota confirmed its fuel consumption figures have dropped from "7.9 litres per 100km in the outgoing LandCruiser Prado to 7.6L/100km on all variants”.

The V-Active system is what other manufacturers would call a ‘mild-hybrid’, though Toyota doesn’t.

Toyota LandCruiser Prado

“48-volt-assisted is not a hybrid,” Toyota Australia Vice President Sales, Marketing and Franchise Operations Sean Hanley told CarsGuide late last year.

“We never put that in our press releases; we’ve never mentioned the word ‘hybrid’ in that car.”

Still, Toyota says the V-Active system brings other benefits than just the modest 0.3L/100km reduction in fuel use, including what Hanley this week called “welcome on-road improvements, with smoother powertrain operation”.

Toyota LandCruiser Prado

The new Prado also adopts the use of AdBlue, a fluid additive stored in a 17.4-litre tank in the Prado that Toyota explains “mixes with exhaust gases as they enter the catalytic converter, burning at very high temperatures to help break down harmful nitrous oxide emissions”.

The new Prado range starts from $72,500 before on-road costs, and reaches up to just $10 short of the six-figure mark with the top-spec Kakadu, an increase of more than $10,000 like-for-like on most variants.

2024 Toyota Prado pricing before on-road costs