Comparing the Toyota Hilux Double Cab (R999 900) and Volkswagen Amarok (R1 259 700) – see how price, engine, warranty and safety stack up below.
The instalment, the fuel bill and the five-year figure — worked out on your deposit, your rate and your driving. Every specification below comes from a verified record.
The five-year figure is finance instalments and fuel only — it does not include servicing, insurance, tyres or depreciation. It is a cost-to-buy-and-run comparison, not a full cost of ownership.
Fuel costs aren't shown — and that's the finding, not a gap in our data. Toyota Hilux Double Cab does not state which test standard was used; Volkswagen Amarok reports NEDC. Figures from different test standards can't be compared directly, so we withhold the fuel cost rather than publish a misleading one.
Fuel cost and total cost-to-own are not shown for this comparison — see note above.
Engine and drivetrain
Fuel type
Diesel (50ppm)
Diesel (50ppm)
Engine
2.8 L
3.0 L
Power
150 kW−34 kW
184 kW
Torque
500 Nm
Not published
Transmission
Automatic 6-speed
10-speed automatic
Drivetrain
4x4
4x4
Gears
6
10
Fuel and range
Consumption
7.5 L/100km
8.4 L/100km+0.9 L/100km
Tank size
80 L
Not published
CO2 emissions
197 g/km
Not published
Space and practicality
Seats
5
5
Doors
4
4
Braked towing
3 500 kg
Not published
Ground clearance
312 mm
Not published
Length
5 320 mm
5 350 mm
Most manufacturers don’t state which measurement standard they use, so boot figures are approximate for comparison.
Ownership and cover
Warranty
3 yr / 100 000 km
4 yr / 120 000 km
Included plan
Service plan — 9 services / 90 000 km
Maintenance plan — 5 years / 100 000 km
Service interval
10 000 km / 12 mo
Not published
Spare wheel
Full-size
Full-size
Service network
~179 authorised service points, as at 18 August 2026 In all 9 provinces. Service-manager contact present per pin in Toyota's own dealer locator.
~129 authorised service points, as at 18 August 2026 In all 9 provinces. Service & Parts department modelled per pin in Volkswagen's own locator.
Safety and off-road
Safety rating
5 stars (ANCAP 2025)
Not published
Airbags
7
Not published
What we haven’t verified yet
Blank cells are figures the manufacturer doesn’t publish for South Africa, or that we haven’t confirmed against an official source. We leave them empty rather than estimating them. A third kind of blank is different again: some fields don’t apply to a vehicle at all — an electric car has no fuel tank — and those are named separately below and left out of that vehicle’s verified count, which is why the counts on the cards above can be out of different totals.
Cost-to-own figures are illustrative only: a standard reducing-balance loan calculation using the deposit, trade-in, balloon, interest rate, term and driving assumptions above, plus fuel at the price you set. They exclude insurance, licensing and servicing, and are not a loan quote — get a real quote from our Finance Calculator. Specifications shown are the fields we’ve verified against official South African sources for each vehicle; anything not shown is marked “Not published” rather than estimated.
