May 8, 2016

Just How Fuel Efficient Are the New Toyota Fortuner, Innova, and Hilux?


Bringing out their second-generation IMV or Innovative Multipurpose Vehicle to its first long-distance road trip at the annual Toyota Road Trek, Toyota Motor Philippines took the opportunity to test the real-world fuel mileage provided by the new GD-series diesel and Dual VVT-i equipped TR-series gasoline engines.

Using their own product planners and marketing executives as guinea pigs, they set a route from Toyota Puerto Princesa to Astoria Palawan resort some 53 kilometers away. With a load of four passengers and with the climate control set at maximum blower and lowest temperature, they set the following benchmarks after four trips:


Then, they told the media to beat these results, only relaxing the rule on air conditioning (but most kept them on since the drive took place midday). Toyota even put in weight ballasts for teams who were composed of only three members.

Driving on unfamiliar roads, they set a 60-minute limit to get from Toyota Puerto Princesa to Astoria Palawan.

These are the results:


Comparing the results with Toyota’s benchmark, it’s clear that the media could coax out more mileage per drop of fuel (in terms of percentage) when the GD-series engine is mated to an automatic transmission. The Top 5 (a mix of Hilux, Fortuner, and Innova) are all equipped with Toyota’s new 6-speed automatic. It must be noted though that Toyota’s product planners could get more with the manual transmission models perhaps because they went through the same course repeatedly, and familiarity with the terrain helps a lot during fuel economy runs.


Of course, this real-world test presents an interesting fact to would-be Toyota buyers. Unless you know a particular terrain/location by heart, getting your new Fortuner, Hilux, or Innova with an automatic gearbox is a surefire way to get the most out of every drop of fuel.

24 comments:

  1. What type of diesel fuel did they use on the trip?

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  2. ^Toyota is not volkswagen or mitsubishi... they dont cheat, right?

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  3. My 2013 fortuner got 6kml ever since. Pure city driving. Everybody cheated but only a few admitted.

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    1. for the fort GAS variant, 6kml is absolutely true. But for the old 2.5 d4d, it should be 9 - 14km/l.

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    2. I think the fortuner is a fuel efficient car for its class. I have a 2015 model. in city driving i got 9.7KM/L goes down to 7.4KM/L in heavy traffic then around 15.4-17.8KM/L on Highway. Just don't step hard on the gas pedal just be gentle on it you'll get the figures

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    3. Thanks for the info regarding the fuel consumption of our fortuner 2015 model. I'm glad to know that.

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  4. I get around 8km/L. 2005 Fortuner 3.0D4D

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  5. We get only 4.1 km per liter with 2.7 4x2 g a/t. Is it really the average consumption? Thank you!

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  6. hi... how about fortuner, how many kilometers can consume in 1 liter?
    thank u

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  7. Fuel consumption should be measured by minutes used per liter

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  8. Toyota fortuner 2018 v a/t diesel, with halftank fuel Fr congressional ave cor mindanao to subic it appears on the screen 7.45/100km. So its about 13.51km/l. At subic i did fulltank at petron and happened that the monitor on the screen disappears and was reset. So what i did is record the milage of 176km at subic and have a fulltank again in petron mindanao ave of 7.90lit amt to p299.00 with a total millage of 319km. So my actual consumption was 319km less 176km =143km/7.9liters= 18.10km/l using turbo diesel w/ a speed of 60-80

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  9. Dito ko napatunayan ko na mas matipid pala pag parating nakafulltank ka.

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  11. Logic dictates that carrying a full tank of gas will increase gas consumption dahil mas mabigat ang karga mo. The weight of 80liters of fuel is 60Kgs.

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    1. 1 liter = 1kilo therefore 80liters = 80 kgs..

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    2. Mas magaan ang 1 liter oil kesa 1 liter water kaya nag float ang oil sa water.

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    3. Same po sila ng bigat kasi both 1kl.

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  12. sorry sir hnd ko sure kung tatawa ako sa analogy mo 1 liter oil mas magaan sa 1 liter water? :-D

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    1. Ace D. Menese, yes the analogy of Rikisama is correct, because the unit weight (density) of water is heavier than oil (diesel/gasoline)

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  13. Sir, one liter na nga po. So meaning equal lang ang dalawa. Yes mas dense ang oil sa water pero, same kasi 1 liter, equal pa din.

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  14. Weight is totally different from volume...

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  15. I use thia simple formula. When driving long distance, fill your tank to "saga." Alam ng gasoline boy yun. Then set your mileage to zero. In going back home refill your tank to "sagad" but this time record your milage and get the amount of gas filled up. Sample: if you travelled at a distance of 200 km and you filled up your gas to 20 liters, then 200km/20liters is 10km/liter.

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  16. Mga sirs, paki google. Density of diesel is 0.85 kg/l water is 1 kg/l.
    100 liters of diesel is 85 kg. 100 liters of water is 100 kg.

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