{"id":300574,"date":"2019-02-19T16:45:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T14:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=300574"},"modified":"2019-02-19T16:45:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T14:45:33","slug":"a-look-at-the-sporty-toyota-hilux-coming-to-south-africa-later-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/300574\/a-look-at-the-sporty-toyota-hilux-coming-to-south-africa-later-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"A look at the ‘sporty’ Toyota Hilux coming to South Africa later this year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toyota South Africa hosted its second ‘state of the motor industry’ (SOMI) event in Midrand on Tuesday (19 February).<\/p>\n

As part of the event, the manufacturer revealed some of its plans for the local market in 2019.<\/p>\n

This will include the launch of the Corolla Hatch, the new\u00a0RAV4, and the 2019\u00a0Prius.<\/p>\n

Toyota said that it also plans to launch the limited edition\u00a0Heroic Hilux GR Sport in South Africa later this year.<\/p>\n

The limited edition Hilux GR Sport features bespoke Gazoo Racing-themed decals, a unique front grille design, two-tone colour scheme and GR Sport-specific 17-inch alloy wheels.<\/p>\n

The engine will be based on the 2.8 litre turbo diesel engine and will also include a tailored interior treatment.<\/p>\n

However, the stand out feature is the special off-road biased suspension which will mean that the GR Sport will stand above even the current Hilux when it comes to off-roading, Toyota said.<\/p>\n

While pricing was not confirmed, Toyota said that the Hilux GR-S will reach South African showrooms by mid-year.<\/p>\n

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Toyota will be bringing the Heroic Hilux GR Sport to South Africa later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":300582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[26,2041],"class_list":["post-300574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-headline","tag-toyota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300574"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300608,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300574\/revisions\/300608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}