Special Edition Toyota Aurion Touring
April 1, 2008 by George Skentzos
Not to be outdone, Toyota has launched a special edition version of its V6 Aurion.
Available for a limited time, the Special Edition Aurion Touring offers over $2,500 worth of added equipment above the equipment levels of the entry-level Aurion AT-X at no extra cost.
In addition to 16-inch alloy wheels which alone usually retail for $1,150 – the Aurion Touring also gains the following:
- six-disc CD changer
- front foglamps
- dual-zone climate-control
- leather-wrapped steering wheel and gear lever
- front and rear parking sonars
- trip computer
The Special Edition Aurion Touring is priced at $34,990 and features Toyota’s 3.5-litre Quad-Cam V6 engine developing 200kW of power at 6200rpm and 336Nm at 4700rpm on regular unleaded petrol.
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# JW Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 11:02 pm “Ummm, isn’t this old news? The Aurion Touring was out last year last I checked?”
# Gibbo Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:48 am “Touring model has been around since before Christmas, therefore its not really new.”
Yep, you’re both correct. This was out late last year (production was limited only for a month or so). This is another limited production run, but typical Toyota and their pathetic marketing department are trying to make it look new again. Oh, btw, re: features including trip computer, these come with the upgraded cluster, not the poverty pack ATX cluster.
I will admit it does look better than a Camry but then again what doesn’t?
Euro lover supply and demand. BF at the end of model cycle and auctioned with thousands of series 1 and ba2 and ba1 examples.
Commodores and Falcons outnumber anything else at least 20:1 at fleet auctions.
Also Commodores and especially Falcons tend to have higher KLMs when they go to auction than your average Corolla /Camurion.
U are correct that this makes BFs especially with e gas great buying for the value conscious.
Realcars you learn that in Economics class today. European yes 80% of Falcons and Commodores are fleets… so when you get already discounted vehicles flooding the used car market, it is simply to much supply for the demand, price goes down
Bucket the wheels rolling accleeration showed the Aurion in a practical situation, overtaking, jumps ahead 2 car lengths. The Falcons torque is nowhere to be seen, no doubt eaten up by the inefficienct RWD drivetrain
Once the monthly allotment of Crawler, Camray, Aurion and Lo Lucks gets flogged off to their target-market Verns and Shirleys and the fleets, what’s left? 20%? 50%? More like 5%, I’d say.
Anyone know the figures?
Love the Verns and Shirls Ha Ha Ha Ha.
Gee u are good value TP!!!
I use to work with a guy like u but instead of being a Toyotaphile like u he was a Hondaphile. He was the sort of bloke that would argue black was white and visa versa.
We were in middle management positions together and he would often disappear or not turn up for the day with some lame work related excuse. Our boss gave up on him in the end because whenever he was cornered he would use his perverse logic and frustrate the shit out of the boss.
Realcars you expect me to believe your not out of school yet? Or by middle management do you mean being promoted to the register at Maccas as opposed to mopping floors?
TP,
you are a laugh.
you say this offers far better value than the falcon yet you overlook the current deals on the SR falcon that is running out for 32K odd AND YOU ACTUALLY GET DECENT ALLOY WHEELS
You have a twin TP!!!!
….and whats wrong with school kids working at Maccas part time or anyone for that matter TP?
It’s an honest living isn’t it?
U really are an obnoxious little twerp and u haven’t even got the intellect to back it up!
Tp never back-up just makes his own quotes up
Maybe he could back-up the Aurion. Its got parking sensors….the only sense TP he ever likely to make. Beside he needs parking sensors as he’s completely blinkered when it come to Toyota.
Gosh its even on topic that comment.
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well done i suppose it was on topic.
i dont think he wants rear sensors as he clearly loves it when he rears up to toyota and they shaft him up the cough, cough
Hope they release a Diesel Aurion soon so TP can tell us how bad it is. Ha Ha Ha Ha.
Diesel Aurion – heaven forbid, It will be the best D in the world no doubts about it. It could even out perform the Prius with consumption figures just imagine 3.2’s per 100km. Put skinnier tyres on with less aerodynamic impact, weel guessing at 2.6’s. Oh what a feeling eh TP. Got an er3ction.
No Name are you the person behind 25%? Mate you must have memory loss, I provided the evidence for the 25% more oil required for Diesel… remember the article where you stopped posting after I embaressed you? What an idiot.
Yes the Falcon offers at the momemt are good AndrewM, but beyond that the new Falcon is an overpriced hack. Mind you even this clearance Falcon at $34k only equals the Aurion, remember curtain airbags cost about $2k, the Falcon doesn’t have them, the Aurion and Commodore do!
how do you know curtain airbags cost 2K?
a safety pack which you can option for some vehicles for $1300 and that includes the curtain airbags, DSC, TC, EBA.
$2K????? yeah maybe thats the price toyota would convince you to pay.
also dont forget ford give you a real drive line in the falcon and not the “cheaper” option as you put it in the FWD Aurion.
yep, they give you the driveline that is cheaper for them, yet still charge you the price for a proper driveline
you obviously arent equipped to comment whether anything represents good value or not, as you are the one who claimed a 29K mondeo is a rip off. pffffft!!!!
if a sub 40k fairmont (G6) isnt good value then you either dont know what you are looking at, or you are too biased to admitt that it is
Not as generous as the 60th Anniversary Commodore.
TP do you actually notice the amount of people who ridicule you? I don’t think you’ve embarrased anyone but yourself- there is no bigger joke than someone who has clearly devoted their life to Toyota. FG is an overpriced hack? I bet it chews the Aurion in EVERY comparison like the BF has; I read a WHEELS article a few months back- BF2 XR6 v VE SV6 v Aurion Sportivo v 380 Vrx and the Commodore and Falcon beat the SX6 so your pathalogical persistence with the WASP test just makes you look like a desperate loser . what a pointless existence you lead.
By the way this car looks nice, but TP has made it very hard for me to like a Toyota.
My God
All you haters need to get out and drive all of these cars that you comment on. I bet half of you havn’t even driven the car you are bagging.
I recently had the luck of going on a 400km drive day with FG, VE and Aurion. After driving all cars there is no doubt that the FG falcon is a better overall car (honest unbiased opinion) than the others. Sure the VE looks great, handles good and comes a respectable 2nd but cannot match the FG for driving dynamics, power or overall quality feel (interior especially). Sadly the Aurion comes comes in last with a tacky interior, sub standard handling – lots of understeer and a very boring exterior.
Just my opinion but at least it is backed up by a bit of real world driving, where it matters.
By the way TP the Curtain Airbag option on Falcon is $300. You are an uneducated fool, please do some research before trying to educate others on a topic you obviously know nothing about.
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah keep on denouncing the Aurion. I would of once too. However I have had a change of heart. Quite recently I had my VZ commodore work car exchanged for one of these Touring Aurion’s……I am expressed. Not only do these cars cost lest then other large vehicles offered on the market, but also have better fuel economy and 200kw of power. One down point of my model is the suspension. But this flaw is fixed in the Sportivo Models. The Aurion is full of extras and really goes…. Looks may be deceiving.
Those additional extras would probably cost Toyota no more than $1,000-1,200 particularly as they are featured on other models and would therefore receive a bulk discount.
I mean there’s nothing to stop them from offering the same features on all Aurions as they are the same design.. Its the options where most car companies make their money.
So really their simply giving those who decide to buy the so called “Limited Edition Touring” a special Badge to mae them think that they got a good deal
No all Toyota are doing is basically raiding the spare parts bin – just as Ford and Holden do when a new updated model is about to be released… it’s nothing special
not trashing toyota Au or anything, but a thought came to me the other day… if performance and “refinement” are such big things to sell the aurion with… lets look back on the toyota V6 cars… the camry V6 (3.0 litre)has always been more refined and in manual form.. been quicker then its equivalent commodore and falcon rivals… whats makes toyota think its going to be any different this time? fuel economy would be one thing i guess but… the falcons apparent 10.1 litre’s in 6 speed auto form (to match aurions 6 speeder) isnt far off
I love the aurion! we don’t have the commodore & the falcon in the UAE, however, i like the aurion