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Toyota's best gets better “Wide Track” ute is so much more than ‘me too’

Sean Willmot has questions – and finds answers – during his drive of Toyota's wide track Hilux.

Question: When is an SR5 Cruiser Hilux not an SR5 Cruiser Hilux?
 Answer: When it is a wide track SR5 Cruiser.

This may seem a strange start to an article on Toyota's commercial flagship, but then when the idea of the wide track variant was first announced, other questions came to mind, the first of which was; “why?”

The SR5 Cruiser is the coolest of all the Hilux's, so did it need to be anything more than it already…was?

Toyota seems to think so, which gives rise to another starter for 10: is the wide track SR5 Cruiser the solution to a question only Toyota asked?

Well, that one's a little outside of our purview as commentators with less than direct communications between ourselves and

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