2025 Toyota LandCruiser Prado range growing with new version of best-seller

The best-selling version of the Toyota LandCruiser Prado is getting a five-seat option.

Toyota Australia has confirmed the GXL, previously offered only as a seven-seater, will be offered without its third row of seating.

“We are always looking at ways to enhance our model lineup and are pleased to be able provide customers with this additional option,” said a Toyota Australia spokesperson.

It’s expected in Australia during the second half of 2025.

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Toyota Australia hasn’t confirmed how much the five-seat GXL will cost. The current seven-seat GXL is priced at $79,990 before on-road costs, or $7490 more than the base GX – albeit with a lot more extra kit besides just a third row of seating.

The company previously said it expected the GXL, which has traditionally been the volume-selling variant in the range, to account for around 50 per cent of total Prado sales.

It launched the GXL exclusively with seven seats, as with the pricier VX and Kakadu.

If you want a five-seat Prado, you need to settle for the base GX or spring for the Altitude. Neither is offered with a third row of seating.

The new Prado’s third row has courted controversy among journalists and customers alike, as unlike the rival Ford Everest it doesn’t fold flat into the floor due to the placement of the 48V battery for the mild-hybrid system.

That means the load floor is a lot higher once they’re folded, which Toyota has attempted to mitigate by installing a removable storage box to sit between the folded seats and the tailgate so there’s a consistent load floor height.

The third row of seating can’t be removed without voiding part of the vehicle’s warranty.

“If a customer removes the third-row seats out the seven-seat LandCruiser Prado variant, the warranty will remain valid for all components of the vehicle besides the third-row components,” said a Toyota Australia spokesperson in November 2024.

The company says seven-seat versions of the Prado offer 182 litres of boot space with all three rows of seating upright, expanding to 906L with the third row stowed, and then 1829L with the third and second rows stowed.

Five-seat Prado variants, however, offer 954 litres of boot space with all the seats upright, expanding to 1895 litres with the second row of seats folded.

All Prado models in Australia are powered by a 2.8-litre turbo-diesel four-cylinder engine producing 150kW of power and 500Nm of torque, mated with an eight-speed automatic transmission. The four-cylinder turbo-petrol hybrid powertrain offered overseas has yet to be locked in for our market.

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