2015 TOYOTA Fortuner 2.4L 6MT (150 HP)

Vehicle Overview

When your name is Toyota and you have one of the best pickups in the world, you can slam an SUV bodywork on that chassis and call it a day. Just name it Fortuner (not For Tuner) and sell it well.

In the past, most of the SUVs were capable 4×4 vehicles which could go virtually anywhere. Since they were body-on-frame system, with separate chassis, all the modifications needed were easier to do. But that doesn’t work with the unibody construction on the modern SUVs that usually cannot tackle more than a dirt road. The Fortuner is one of the vehicles that was built “old school” but with a modern design in 2015.

The second generation of the large SUV applied the same recipe as the previous: took the chassis from the Hilux pickup and slammed a bodywork on it. The design had some similarities in the design concept with the Toyota Corolla, mostly on the headlight shape. On the side, there was a strange descending line from the C-pillar to the rear. The idea was to make the car look better, not bald. And the result is fine.

Inside, there was room for up to seven passengers and still had some trunk space. The dashboard design was very interesting, with a display in the middle and a big touch-screen display on the central console. The instrument cluster was a mix of round analog dials and a small display for the on-board computer.