New Prado Turbo Diesel - OLD engine!!

Submitted: Sunday, Mar 30, 2003 at 06:33
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Chaps,
I've recently sent a few ramblings to this forum, and now I have one more. I'm almost certainly about to get a new Prado turbo diesel(manual), but I am a bit bleep off that it comes with the old engine(1KZ-TE). It appears that in most other parts of the world, including the UK, the Prado has a 120kW, 343Nm common rail turbo diesel(D4D). It appears that a lot of other countries round the world have had access to this engine for a couple of years - but not us. This MAY be something to do with our lower quality diesel, but I believe this has improved lately, to the point whereby BMW are now willing to bring in their turbo diesel X5.

If anyone has any information on whether Toyota Australia intend to give us this engine one day, please let me know. I'd be pretty unhappy if they decide to put in the new engine 1 year after I'd bought a new Prado TD. This is probably quite unlikely, and I suspect that we will not ge the new engine until a major revamp of the model(4-5 years?).

Opinions welcome.

Regards,

Stuart
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