The long-awaited Toyota Fortuner facelift will be launched in the Indian market tomorrow. The company will also introduce the new Fortuner Legender variant, which has significantly different design elements compared to the facelift model. The new Fortuner Legender has already been snapped during a TVC shoot, revealing most of the design changes.
Fortuner Legender Design Changes
The 2021 Toyota Fortuner facelift comes with cosmetic design changes in the form of sleeker headlamps, more prominent and large mesh-pattern grille, new fog lamp enclosure, and re-shaped front bumper with new silver skid plate. The SUV also gets new LED lighting system, which has LED headlamps with LED DRls and slimmer-looking LED tail-lights. The SUV rides on newly-styled 18-inch alloys.
The Toyota Fortuner Legender also gets newly styled headlamp unit with LED tech and LED DRLs, which resembles the one available in the Toyota Yaris. There is black eye-brow-like treatment on the top of the new lamp, which connects well with the slimmer grille. It comes with wider air-dam with blackened treatment for mesh pattern, new skid plates, LED fog lamps and Lexus-like sequential turn signal on the lower side of the bumper. This model rides on new and bigger dual-tone alloys, which could be 20-inch in size. This variant also gets still footsteps, and chrome treatment under the side window, and black-treatment for ORVMs, pillars and roof. It has new tail-lamps with LED bar and new bumper, roof-integrated spoiler and shark fin antenna.
Fortuner Legender Interior Changes
The Fortuner Legender comes with dual-tone interior scheme, featuring dual-tone upholstery with contrasting stitch, ambient illumination, dual rear USB and wireless smartphone charger. It comes fitted with a large 9-inch touchscreen infotainment system with connectivity option. The regular Fortuner facelift now fitted with an 8-inch touchscreen infotainment system, which replaces the 7-inch unit in the current model. The new Toyota Fortuner 2021 gets updated instrument console, 8-way electrically adjustable driver and co-driver’s seats, a 9-speed JBL audio system and a 360 degree camera. The Legender variant also gets 7 airbags and several safety features.
Engine Specs
The new Fortuner will be offered with two engine options – a 2.7-litre 4-cylinder turbocharged petrol and a 2.8-litre turbocharged diesel. The turbocharged petrol engine is capable of producing 164bhp of power and 245Nm of torque. On the other hand, the turbo-diesel engine offers 201bhp of power and 500Nm of torque. Transmission options will include a 6-speed manual and a 6-speed torque convertor automatic. The Legender variant will be offered with a 6-speed automatic gearbox and 2WD (two-wheel-drive) system only. The top-end trims will be exclusively offered with 4WD (four-wheel-drive) system.
