The difference between Toyotas and Honda is the hardwork and emphasize they put in for every model upgrade. If you have even seen the old Civic and new Civic, the design, build quality, features in-built shows clearly that Honda is best Jap car available. Toyota's like Maruti in India, although Maruti sells the volume does not mean that they give you good cars. Actually they give value for money cars, not great quality cars.
No wonder, Accord and Civic are the most stolen cars in Western countries.
In Fortuner's case, the Toyota worked on a pickup/truck platform called Hilux Surf. It came out well and they just decided to put a roof in the back and named Fortuner. If you see the closely, it rather looks like a facelifted, shrinked Prado LC. Dangerously taller and a bit scary to manuevuer esp during cornering.
In SE asia the positioning of Fortuner is also a bit confusing. The price is just a little bit more than RAV 4 fully loaded ver. The Fortuner is available only manual in this region.
Iam really surprised why Fortuner is given such big hype. |