FLASH AND PRACTICAL

The top-spec Prado Kakadu isn’t just loaded with luxury and convenience kit, it’s also very different mechanically to lesser Prados.

THE Prado Kakadu will set you back $84,490, plus on-road costs. For that price it comes fully loaded with a vast array of luxury, convenience, safety and special mechanical features, with only premium paint an extra cost. Compare that to the Discovery SDV6 SE, which starts at the same price but needs a boot-full of options to come up to what the Kakadu has standard. The significant mechanical features that set the Kakadu apart from the rest of the Prado range include a rear diff lock, terrain-specific settings for the 4x4 system, height-adjustable rear suspension, variable suspension damping and what Toyota calls ‘Crawl Control’, which is like hill-descent control but works both on flat ground and up hills. Importantly, the Kakadu has Toyota’s Kinetic Dynamic Suspension System (KDSS) as standard, although this…

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4x4 Magazine Australia (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2016

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