Toyota Hilux

The Toyota Hilux is one of 495 Toyota models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 1968. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Toyota Hilux properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1960s were the decade of the pony car, the mid-engined revolution and the birth of the modern hot hatchback's ancestors — engineering advanced faster than in any decade before it. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Peugeot Peugeot 504, the Range Rover Range Rover, the Pontiac Pontiac Firebird — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Toyota Hilux reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 1.5 L Toyota R engine#2R / 2R Straight-four engine / I4 (RN10/15) / 1.6 L Toyota R engine#12R / 12R I4 (RN13/16) / 1.9 L Toyota R engine#3R; kerb weight is recorded at 940 kg (LWB chassis cab) / 1025-1040 kg (SWB truck) / 1075-1085 kg (LWB truck) / 1075-1110-1255 kg (box van); drive goes through 4-speed manual; the layout is Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout / Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive (1968–present) / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive layout / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive (1979–present). Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Toyota story

Within Toyota's own catalogue the Toyota Hilux sits alongside the Toyota Agya, the Toyota Calya, the Toyota Cami, the Toyota Duet. The record names the Hino Briska / Toyota Briska / Toyota Stout (K40) / Toyota Lite Stout / Toyota Stout (K110) / Toyota Stout as its predecessor and the Toyota Tacoma (North America, from 1995) / Toyota Fortuner (Hilux Sport Rider) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Takayuki Otsuka. Assembly is recorded at Japan: Hamura, Tokyo (Hino Motors / Hino) / United States: Long Beach, California (Toyota Auto Body California / Atlas Fabricators, final assembly: 1971–1972) / South Africa: Durba.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Toyota Hilux costs to live with — that is a different dataset. MotorJury's ownership verdicts are computed from federal complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, published per model year as the nightly ingest reaches each car. If this model was sold in the United States, its years will surface in the ownership database; browse it live or price any car yourself with the true-cost calculator.