2025 Toyota HiAce gets safer but pricier

The 2025 Toyota HiAce has received improved safety technology and enhanced levels of standard equipment, but Australia’s best-selling delivery van has also been hit with a hefty $2994 price rise across the entire line-up.

The updated 2025 Toyota HiAce delivery van is in dealers now. It gains a front centre airbag that raises the total count to either eight or 10 depending on variant and swaps to electric power steering.

The latter change allows Toyota to introduce more sophisticated drive assist measures like lane-keep assist.

The bad news is a prices rise of $2994 across the range, with the entry HiAce long-wheelbase cargo van now priced from $51,880 plus on-road costs.

To help offset the rises, the Toyota commercial gains safe exit assist, adaptive cruise control, a new 7.0-inch digital instrument cluster and a pair of durable black side mirror caps.

Choose the automatic transmission version and Toyota has added an electric handbrake and an adaptive cruise control that works from a complete stop to highway speeds.

Like before, the HiAce is offered as a long-wheelbase cargo van in manual or auto and an auto-only barn door version, plus a long-wheelbase crew van and a super-long-wheelbase cargo van.

More welcome additions include two new wipers on vans fitted with the barn doors and two side rear airbags on the crew vans.

Along with being safer, Toyota claims the addition of the new electric power steering has made manoeuvring its van "easier and more comfortable than ever before".

The Japanese firm says it's greener too, with a switch to the cleaner R1234yf refrigerant that has significantly lower global warming potential than regular gases used in air-con systems.

It's thought Toyota Australia will also upgrade its 12-seater HiAce Commuter minibus in the coming months

Like before, all versions of the rear-drive Toyota HiAce come with a 2.8-litre four-cylinder turbo-diesel that produces 130kW and 420Nm with the six-speed manual and 130kW/450Nm with the six-speed auto.

As unwelcome as the $3000 price hike is for the 2025 Toyota HiAce, the safety boost will be warmly appreciated by any fleet managers who are ordering the Japanese van in the near future.

That should ensure it maintains its commanding lead as the best-selling light commercial van Down Under.

Last year an incredible 6535 Toyota HiAce vans were snapped up by tradies and business, a long way ahead of its next closest rival, the Ford Transit Custom (1871).

How much does the 2025 Toyota HiAce cost?
LWB cargo van manual tailgate – $51,880 (+$2994)
LWB cargo van automatic tailgate – $53,880 (+$2994)
LWB cargo van automatic barn door – $54,630 (+$2994)
GL LWB cargo van automatic tailgate – $54,880 (+$2994)
GL LWB cargo van automatic barn door – $55,630 (+$2994)
LWB crew van automatic tailgate – $56,880 (+$2994)
SLWB crew van automatic tailgate – $62,440 (+$2994)
SLWB crew van automatic barn door – $63,190 (+$2994)
* Prices exclude on-road costs

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