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Wait times for Australia's top-selling family SUV have continued to ease as supply for the Australian market increases.
The wait time for Australia’s best-selling family SUV has lessened with Toyota currently estimating an average wait time of three months or less for the RAV4 hybrid.
The drop is significant compared to this time last year when customers were beginning to cancel orders as wait times for the popular hybrid model pushed two years, depending specification.
However, Toyota Australia has since worked to reduce the order bank and secured more supply to free up stock.
In March this year, Toyota registered over 5000 new RAV4s with bolstered Australian supply and wait times eased for the Hybrid variant to 12 months.
The following month, Toyota Australia claimed wait times had halved again to just six months for the RAV4 Hybrid with production ramping up, and then in mid-2024, that delivery time was down to just four months.
As it sits now, approximate wait times can "vary depending on a customer’s location and the vehicle specification they have chosen," as stated by Toyota, but the expectation is for customers to take home a new RAV4 Hybrid within three months of placing an order.
The new estimate comes as Australian new-vehicle deliveries continue to slow from the record pace of 2023, with October 2024 figures down once again.
RAV4 sales, however, continue to soar with the medium SUV taking the top spot for five of the 10 months this year. While October numbers were high at 4,841, July remains a record month with 5933 examples delivered.
The RAV4 is currently 2024's second best-selling model in Australia with two months of sales data still to report, sitting at 48,073 sales (up a massive 92.4 per cent over the period last year) and is more popular than the HiLux ute (46,594 sales year-to -ate) but behind the Ford Rnager (53,119 sales YTD).
Those in the market for a Toyota bZ4x, Fortuna, and Hilux can expect equivalent wait times of three months or less.
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