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New Toyota Innova, Fortuner spied

Both the updated Toyotas will be showcased at the upcoming Delhi Auto Expo in January next year.
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Face-lifted Fortuner and Innova due for early 2012 launch.

New Toyota Fortuner Automatic interior spy shot.

New Toyota Innova interior spy shot.

Here are the spy pictures of the soon-to-be-launched Toyota Innova and its hot selling Fortuner SUV.

Unveiled at the Indonesian Motor Show, the Innova gets a substantial facelift, with new lights and grille, and the profile has been altered slightly as well. The upright grille sits more vertically than the current car, making the bonnet look less van-like. The new headlights have been stretched over the fenders, and the fogs and chin are new as well. The MPV also gets new alloy wheel designs. The styling updates at the rear include a new bumper, re-styled number-plate housing and re-profiled tail lamps.

There are minor tweaks to the interiors; the manual AC controls get bigger knobs, new audio system, wooden inserts for the centre console, new upholstery and a new steering wheel which looks like it is borrowed from the Corolla Altis. Higher-spec models are likely to get a touch-screen audio system. We don’t expect any major changes to the current 2.5-litre common-rail diesel motor; however, it could be updated to deliver more power and torque.

The Fortuner too receives a facelift and now sports an all-new nose design which gives the SUV a wider and more aggressive stance. It gets new headlamps that are slightly stretched, a restyled and sculpted bonnet with a larger scoop for the air-intake, a re-profiled bumper and a wider redesigned chrome grille that makes it resemble the Land Cruiser. On the inside, it gets new seats,  darker wooden trim, a new silver-finish center console with touch-screen audio and a new steering-wheel.

Toyota hasn’t changed the SUV’s side profile but the rear now gets new clear-lens tail lamps that have a different profile from the current ones.

The current Fortuner is powered by a 3.0-litre common-rail diesel motor that churns out a respectable 169bhp. This is the same motor that does duty in the Land Cruiser Prado as well, although the Prado gets more torque. The Fortuner may be given this step up as well for India. An automatic version is on the cards as well.

The face-lifted models of both the Fortuner and Innova will come with a steep price hike. Toyota is faced with the double whammy of a weakening rupee and strengthening Yen which will sadly be passed onto the customer. However, the two-wheel-drive, manual Fortuner is likely to be substantially cheaper than the manual 4 x 4 version, which was the only option until now.

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