Is This The Fastest Toyota Hilux in Africa?

The Toyota Hilux is not known for blistering performance, but this supercharged Hilux double cab produced by local tuning firm, RGMotorsport, offers a lot more go than most bakkies…

The standard Toyota Hilux 4.0 V6 double cab Raider offers 175 kW and 376 Nm of torque and RGMotorsport, a local tuning company based in Johannesburg, got hold of the latest 4.0 V6 Hilux and supercharged it, arguably making it the fastest Hilux on the continent.

The idea of a Hilux with more than 300 kW seems incredible, but not for RGMotorsport.

Compared with the standard model's outputs, this supercharged V6 Hilux offers massive bumps in power, to 327 KW (+ 152 kW) and torque, to 545 Nm (+ 169 Nm). Those are impressive numbers for a bakkie and official acceleration figures were recorded at the Gerotek testing facility near Pretoria.

From standstill, this supercharged V6 Hilux automatic accelerates to 100 kph in only 7.6 seconds before reaching a top speed of 227 kph. Note that Toyota claims a leisurely 9.4 seconds for the standard V6 Hilux.

More impressive, however, is the supercharged Hilux’s in-gear acceleration where it’s capable of accelerating from 80 kph to 160 kph in only 12.2 seconds (10 seconds faster than the standard Hilux 4×2 Lux double cab). Acceleration from 60 to 120 kph takes just 6.0 seconds, which is notably quicker than the standard version’s 9.6 seconds.

The cost to convert a Hilux or Fortuner to this spec starts at about R105 000 and all RGMotorsport conversions come with a 6-month/20 000 km warranty.

Watch the supercharged Toyota Hilux in action below!