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What You Can Expect from Illawarra Toyota & Hino.
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What To Expect
- A friendly reception and prompt attention.
- A thorough consultative interview to ensure all your requirements are fully understood.
- Complete transparency. We will give you our recommendations upfront once we have a proper understanding of your situation and requirements .
- All prices will be clearly illustrated and explained.
- Assurance that you will be treated with the greatest respect always and that any service will be performed to the highest standards every time.
- Only state-of-the-art Toyota approved technical equipment and genuine Toyota Parts will be used to service and care for your vehicle.
Owner Tony White is the driving force behind one of Australia's fastest growing automotive dealer groups, and with the help of the management team, the determination to succeed will drive Illawarra Toyota & Hino to even greater success in the years ahead.
About Toyota
Toyota Motor Corporation Australia (Toyota Australia) is one of Toyota Japan's global manufacturing centres with a long term commitment to the domestic and export markets.
The company
After 50 years in Australia, Toyota has grown to be one of Australia's leading automotive companies. But Toyota's focus is looking ahead. 50 years experience is just the foundations for a bigger and brighter future for everyone.
Toyota Australia's origins go back to 1958 when Theiss Brothers began importing the first LandCruiser models for work on the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric scheme and sold the first Toyota LandCruiser in 1959. Assembly of Toyota cars began in the Melbourne factory of Australian Motor Industries (later AMI-Toyota) in 1963 and within a decade the Corolla and Corona (replaced by Camry in 1987) were well established in the market.
The commercial vehicle business became Theiss Toyota in 1971 and achieved commercial leadership in 1979. Meantime AMI Toyota began investing in an engine and stamping plant to consolidate its position as a high local content vehicle manufacturer.
In 1988 Toyota's local operations were unified to form Toyota Motor Corporation Australia and work began on restructuring and strengthening the group as a major step towards achieving international competitiveness and building vital export business. Toyota in 1994-95 consolidated vehicle production at its new world-ranking Altona plant in Melbourne.
Mission & values
We deliver outstanding automotive products and services to our customers, and enrich our community, partners and environment
Our four core values
- Customer first
- Respect for people
- International focus
- Continuous improvement and innovation.
About Hino
At the heart of Hino’s technology and design lie the needs of its customers.
Hino prides itself on engineering vehicles with inherent quality, durability and reliability - transport solutions with features that make your working life easier.
Hino’s R&D record has been put to the test at the most daunting of truck challenges, the Paris-Dakar Rally, with Hino trucks finishing every running of the 9000 kilometre endurance event since 1991.
Hino goes beyond researching and developing breakthroughs in basic truck and bus performance – it actively studies how to make its vehicles better for people and the environment in areas such as reduced emissions, quieter operations and improved levels of safety and comfort.
Hino has already implemented the Hybrid Inverter-controlled Motor & Retarder (HIMR) system, which uses a diesel and electric motor. This system has been applied to low-polluting buses used in major Japanese cities and national parks, and is soon to be introduced in Australia. Hino is also actively researching and developing trucks and buses that use Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), hydrogen and other forms of alternative energy.
Other breakthroughs in engine and vehicle development include the J Series engines – Hino’s latest midsize engine series. J Series engines are the world's first same bore stroke four, five and six-cylinder units to have high output and low energy consumption. In this series, the J-1A engine was the first in the world to use the common rail electronically controlled fuel injection system. In addition to significantly reducing NOx emissions, the J-1A also reduces noise and vibration levels.
Hino uses automatic driving robots, vehicle vibration mode analysis equipment and vehicle vibration durability test equipment to evaluate everything from vehicle start-up acceleration and fuel consumption to cooling performance and driveability.
To accurately measure performance, test drives are conducted on Hino proving grounds and public roads, and collision tests are performed to maintain the highest standards of safety.
