JAKARTA - The New Hilux Box has been launched in early March 2023. PT Toyota Astra Motor, as a Toyota car distributor in Indonesia, claims that the Hilux Box can provide greater transport power and is a solution for consumers in managing their business.

Henry Tanoto, as vice president director of PT Toyota Astra Motor, said in his official statement, Hilux was introduced with two types, namely a dry box and a refrigerated box. This aims to increase the options for consumers who run the business.

"The presence of Hilux with this box can be a new solution to facilitate the business needs of consumers. Moreover, the Hilux Box has a greater capacity so that it can increase competitiveness in distributing both dry and frozen food throughout Indonesia," Henry said in his release.

Each of these hilux pickups has a diameter size. For the dry box, it has a length of 4,930 mm, a width of 1,800 mm, and a height of 2,166 mm. Meanwhile, the refrigerated box has a slightly larger size, a length of 5,060 mm, a width of 1,800 mm, and a height of 2,300 mm. As for the box size, these two types are of the same size, namely 2,100 mm long, 1,800mm wide, and 1,500 mm high.

Not only type, Toyota also offers two choices of engines on the New Hilux Box, namely gasoline and diesel. This car also has an emission standard of Euro4.

For gasoline, this pickup car is installed with 1TR-FE 1.998 cc 4-cylinder Dual VVT-i engine which produces a power of 139 PS at 5.600 rpm with a torque of 18.7 Kgm 4,000 RPM. As for diesel, equipped with a 2GD-FTV 2.393 cc engine on the 4-cylinder VNT Intercooler which produces 149.6 PS power at 3.400 rpm with a powerful torque of 35 Kgm in a round as low as 1.400 2.800 RPM.

Quoted from the Toyota Astra Motor website as of March 17, the cheapest variant is on the New Hilux Dry Box Gasoline M/T priced at IDR 309 million, and the highest variant of the New Hilux Refrigerated Box 2.4 Diesel M/T is IDR 412 million.