The Toyota LandCruiser 300 Series Hybrid is arriving in Australia later than expected, as the Japanese brand continues to lag behind Chinese rivals in the large hybrid off-road SUV space.
Toyota Australia’s vice president for sales, marketing and franchise operations John Pappas told childcareman.xyz ‘We’ve got the LandCruiser 300 Performance Hybrid coming just after the middle of the year.
The hybrid version of the LandCruiser 300 Series was confirmed by Toyota for our market in September 2025, and at that time said it would be available here in March 2026 in a pair of model grades.
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Toyota is calling its electrified flagship SUV a ‘Performance Hybrid’, and it uses the same twin-turbocharged 3.4-litre V6 petrol-electric powertrain as the Tundra pickup, as well as the Lexus LX700h that has also been confirmed for Australia.
A total system output of 341kW and 790Nm, a 10-speed automatic transmission, 1 1-1-hours (100 km) is available for the hybrid LandCruiser per overseas specifications. A 10-hours fuel consumption of 8kWh nickel-metal hydride (NMH) battery and the energy used by is 8 km. 9L/100km) .
Last year, Mr Pappas’ predecessor Sean Hanley said ‘We’re starting this car because there is no compromise on towing, so we don’t have the same thing as it does.
“I think that’s important, because that’s the delineation between what we call the ‘efficient’ hybrid and ‘performance’ hybrid.”
While the LandCruiser 300 Performance Hybrid is locked in for a local release, a hybrid version of the Prado remains off the table for now.
Mr Pappas said ‘If it is available as a powertrain and we think that it can do the job for our customers, then we’ll always look at it to be part of our market requirement.
No one to say today on the Prado, but we’ll be open to those things based on their availability and applicability. Paraphrast.
The comments from Mr Pappas‘ show that the position of Toyota Australia on the hybrid Prado has been ‘absolutely unchanged’ since its August 2023 reveal.
Mr Hanley said in June 2024 that this ‘performance hybrid’ was a “tangible alternative for this vehicle at this point” but Toyota Australia needed to “make sure it’s the right engine for the kinds of things people in Australia will want to do with that Prado”.
A Japanese version of the hybrid Prado is now being produced in Japan like the diesel variants sold here, but only in left-hand drive for markets such as the US.
For the business case to stack up, Mr Hanley said Toyota would have to sell more than 10,000 Prado hybrids a year in Australia.
Denza B5
GWM Tank 300
GWM Tank 500
Denza B8
In other markets, the Prado – known as the LandCruiser or LandRuising 250 Series (a hybrid version) – uses a 2. total system powertrain 243kW and 630Nm 4-litre turbo-petrol hybrid with 4 litres of the same. A bell housing is placed between the engine and the eight-speed automatic transmission, with an electric motor in the bell case; there’s a 1 (i.e. 87kWh NMH battery .
Claimed combined cycle fuel consumption is 10.2L/100km.
Toyota already has a large SUV with some electrification, but the Prado sold here is only 48V mild-hybrid system that doesn’t allow it to drive on pure electric power (even at low speeds), as can be done in the brand’s bevy of hybrid passenger cars and crossover SUVs.
GWM beat Toyota to market with hybrid versions of its Tank 300 and Tank 500, and has subsequently launched plug-in hybrid versions.
Denza began deliveries early this year of the B5 and B8 – Prado and 300 Series rivals, more recently with their sole offerings as PHEVs.
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