Toyota Aurion TRD Breaks Cover
June 23, 2007 by Paul Maric
It seems that with all the Falcon Orion hype, Toyota is taking any chance it can to push its new TRD Aurion. Hidden in the back of a recent press release is Toyota’s new TRD Aurion.
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CarAdvice has been advised that the TRD Aurion and TRD Hilux will be available in two trims respectively.
TRD Aurion:
TRD Aurion 3500S
TRD Aurion 3500SL
TRD Hilux:
TRD Hilux 4000S
TRD Hilux 4000SL
It appears that the ‘S’ models (most probably standing for ’supercharged’) will be at the bottom of the TRD range in each model, whilst the ‘SL’ models (presumably ’supercharged luxury’) will feature extra features to appeal to the punters with a bit of extra cash.
The TRD 3500SL will probably feature some of the additional gizmos and gadgets that the current Presara features – such as Xenon HID headlights and satellite navigation.
Initially suspected to go up against the likes of Holden’s performance arm HSV and Ford’s performance arm FPV, Toyota said that it would go up against cars like the Alfa 159, VW R32 Golf, Subaru Liberty GT Spec B and Mazda6 MPS instead, culling any thoughts of an all-wheel-drive road tearer.
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The reason TRD didn’t opt for an AWD Aurion was simply and solely because of the developmental costs associated considering the TRD Aurion is only engineered for Australia’s relatively small market.
Infact, out of all the countries the Camry is sold in, no AWD system for the humble Camry has been developed any where therefore TRD Australia would have had to develope it from scratch to only satisfy a small market hence why it did not come to fruition.
Great topic, and i got one bright idea.
Which one of these cars mentioned above has great capacity for improvment?.
What iam talking about here is buying yourself a brand new car and taking it to a tuner shop and increasing its improvments by something like 50 to 75% of what it was in the showroom.
I mean people who have money and love for performance cars will have time and money to spend a bit more and smoke off a lot of cars from standing start, not to mention a standard factory vehicles.
I own a 2003 XR8 4 speed auto 5.4L Ba Falcon, i also have a work car a red Aurion TRD 6 speed auto supercharged. And on paper and in real life my old 248000km 5.4L Falcon XR8 totally destroys my work 15000km Aurion, beating it by almost 1 full second 0-100. This is no joke, this is a fact, its a fact 100%, as simple as that. And worst of all my gearbox has been playing since 2006, and still destroys that FWD crap from 50km/h towards 260km/h.