Talk:Toyota Fortuner

Removed content - not relevant to context
The following paragraph was part of this article, but was not deemed appropriate because it's more on Toyota's overseas production venture instead of the Fortuner. Took the liberty of adjusting the passage and moving it into the Toyota article where it's more helpful.

"Toyota initiated the IMV project to optimize global manufacturing and supply systems for pickup trucks and multipurpose vehicles, and to satisfy market demand in more than 140 countries worldwide. IMV calls for diesel engines to be made in Thailand, gasoline engines in Indonesia and manual transmissions in the Philippines and India, for supply to the countries charged with vehicle production. For vehicle assembly, Toyota will use plants in Thailand, Indonesia, Argentina and South Africa. These four main IMV production and export bases will supply Asia, Europe, Africa, Oceania, Latin America and the Middle East with the five all-new IMV vehicles. IMV-series vehicle production including that in countries other than the four main production bases is projected to exceed 500,000 units in 2006." - Two hundred percent (talk) 03:14, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Designed where?
There are two references for where the Fortuner was designed: one that says Thailand and one that says Australia. The Australian reference says that it was designed by Toyota Technical Centre-Australia, which became part of the global design team in 2006. This sounds too late for the Fortuner introduction in 2004 but its possible that the design team existed earlier than when it became part part of the global team, so it is still possible that Fortuner was made with input from both Thai and Australian teams. I had to remove an unreferenced comment that it was designed purely in Thailand because it is very unprofessional to have sequential sentences that directly and explicitly contradict each other. Does anyone have any more references or ideas to help clean up this mess? Otherwise we will just have to leave both references in and say that both Thailand and Australia claim at least some input into the design.  Stepho  talk 10:08, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

According to Kaoro Hosokawa Head of the IMV project (atleast how i interpreted it) the motivation for the IMV platform the fortuner was based on was to integrate the Hilux derivative TUV Platform(Kijang) and Hilux development into a single platform.I would wager that the first generation fortuner and IMV platform mates was developed mostly by thailand.

This article shows that TTC-AU contributed the design facelift on the 1st gen fortuner and a breakdown on contributions on 2nd generation IMV development with the Thailand wing responsible for the hilux double cab and the australian wing taking on the duties adapting it into the Fortuner TheBitterNoob1 (talk) 06:33, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Toyota Fortuner (AN150/AN160) GR Sport facelift
The Toyota Fortuner GR Sport facelift will be launched in Middle East and rest of Asia on 2023. Derwydd74 (talk) 13:54, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

Fortuner (AN150/AN160) in China
The Toyota Fortuner (AN150/AN160) will be launched in China on 2023. Derwydd74 (talk) 01:26, 25 December 2022 (UTC)


 * There is no need to inform us of every upcoming facelift for every model in ever country.
 * With no reliable source as a reference then you have nothing to put in the article. See WP:RS.
 * If the reference is just magazine speculation (even if from an undisclosed source within Toyota) then that is just an unreliable source making a guess. See WP:CRYSTALBALL.
 * If you have a reliable reference that reports on Toyota officially mentioning a new generation then that is worth adding to the article. However, similar refences for a facelift are just not that important to list ahead of time (see WP:NOTABLE) and we can just wait until the actual facelift arrives.  Stepho  talk 02:17, 25 December 2022 (UTC)