2025 Toyota Prado GXL five-seat: Price confirmed for new variant with bigger boot

Pricing for a new version of the 2025 Toyota Prado GXL with five seats instead of seven has been confirmed for Australia.

The mid-spec LandCruiser Prado GXL is now available to order with five seats at $78,990 before on-road costs – $1000 less than the seven-seater – for a larger boot capacity, as the third row in seven-seat models does not fold flat into the floor.

Customer deliveries of the five-seat GXL are due imminently to join the rest of the new-generation Toyota Prado range, which launched in Australia in November 2024.

Due to the packaging of part of its mild hybrid system, the five-seat Prado also has an elevated boot floor, but it is not as high as the seven-seaters, which add a plastic storage box to match the folded seatbacks.

Seven-seat versions of the Prado lose around 50 litres of available storage with the third row folded and almost 70 litres with both rows of seating down compared to the five-seaters, according to official measurements from Toyota Australia.

Toyota Australia sales and marketing boss Sean Hanley told Drive in January customers had choice in the Prado's model line-up.

"In terms of the seating capacity that gets mentioned a bit, people have got choices in relation to that," he said.

"And they're making those choices in terms of our model line-up, whether they stick with the model they originally ordered or [are] moving to another one.

"So we are finding the Prado and customer demand is stronger than we believed it would be, and we think it's a really good car. It's doing its job very well."

The addition of the five-seat GXL sees the number of Prado variants with five seats expand from two to three – GX, GXL and Altitude – while the VX and Kakadu remain exclusively available with seven seats.

It is believed to be the first time the Prado GXL has offered the choice of five or seven seats in Australia in its almost 30-year history, rather than only being a seven-seater.

VFACTS new-car sales data shows 10,674 examples of the Toyota Prado have been delivered so far in 2025, making it Australia's best-selling large SUV ahead of the Ford Everest (7220) and Isuzu MU-X (4142).

• Prado GX five-seat diesel 4WD – $72,500
• Prado GXL five-seat diesel 4WD – $78,990 (new)
• Prado GXL seven-seat diesel 4WD – $79,990
• Prado VX seven-seat diesel 4WD – $87,400
• Prado Altitude five-seat diesel 4WD – $92,700
• Prado Kakadu seven-seat diesel 4WD – $99,990
  

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Jordan is a motoring journalist based in Melbourne with a lifelong passion for cars. He has been surrounded by classic Fords and Holdens, brand-new cars, and everything in between from birth, with his parents’ owning an automotive workshop in regional Victoria. Jordan started writing about cars in 2021, and joined the Drive team in 2024.

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