New Toyota Hilux AT35 is ready for some snow

This is the new Toyota Hilux AT35. It is the most current in a lengthy line of modified off-road vehicles to appear from Arctic Vehicles – and Toyota claims the engineering firm’s chassis and drivetrain enhancements have created it the most able version of the Hilux still.

The AT35 offer is available to order now, priced from £18,780 additionally VAT. On the other hand, the improve can only be specced on the variety-topping Hilux Invincible X Double Cab automatic product – so, if you want the offer on a new Hilux, you need to have a overall of £63,000 to pay out for it.

Chassis tweaks about the common Toyota Hilux consist of adjustable anti-roll bars, uprated Bilstein dampers and new suspension springs. The decide-up’s entrance and rear differentials also have new gearing, which must make it less difficult to push off-road.

Arctic Vehicles has also massaged the Hilux’s human body and frame to make area for some new seventeen-inch alloy wheels wrapped in chunky 35-inch BFGoodrich KO2 all-terrain tyres. All of these tweaks have provided the Hilux an added 65mm of floor clearance, when strengthening its technique and departure angles by nine and a few degrees respectively.

It is isn’t all go and no demonstrate, while. Arctic Vehicles has created a several cosmetic tweaks, fitting broader side techniques, some distinctive badges and broader wheel arches to protect the new wheels. There’s a new rear bumper, way too, showcasing a two-inch receiver hitch that can swiftly take attachments these as tow balls, winches and techniques.

As it is based mostly on the Invincible X variant, the Hilux AT35 also will come as common with an 8-inch infotainment process, perforated leather upholstery, an ambient lighting process and an electrically adjustable driver’s seat. Consumers also get the common decide-up’s upgraded JBL stereo, which comprises a 224mm subwoofer and an 800W amplifier.

Toyota and Arctic Vehicles do give a several optional extras for the AT35, these as entire underbody defense, a grille-mounted light bar and a Truxedo load bed protect. The decide-up’s tyres can be swapped for BFGoodrich KM3 mud terrain alternatives – and the pair can also source an on-board inflation/deflation kit with a twelve-volt compressor mounted in the engine bay.

The Hilux AT35 is powered by the same turbocharged two.8-litre 4-cylinder diesel engine as the not long ago up to date common decide-up. It has an output of 201bhp and 500Nm of torque – which means it retains the same 3.five-tonne towing capacity as the common decide-up.

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