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Battle of the SUVs has just got hotter
Ford has fired its salvo against Toyota with its locally assembled Everest, and Toyota has returned fire by slightly updating its Fortuner
The battle lines have been boldly drawn in the sand. The large sport utility vehicle (SUV) market is something of a fracas at the moment with the Ford Everest — which is now being built in SA — and the Toyota Fortuner, which has received a minor update, continuing to stab at each other to be the leader. And whether Chevrolet has done enough to its Trailblazer to weigh in on the fight remains to be seen. Toyota has been a dominant force in this segment with its Fortuner, but do the latest updates tell an untold story and should we be reading between the lines? Is the mighty Fortuner under siege, quivering in its boots as the competition strengthens its arsenal? Well, we reckon it would be a futile move for Toyota to rest on its laurels. The new updates, just months after the release of the latest generation Fortuner, mean it is taking the opposition quite seriously this time around. Rather expensive It has been somewhat of an uphill battle for Ford’s Everest (which was initially impo...
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