HiAce
Also known as: Toyota HiAce, Hiace
Toyota's cab-over light van and the dominant Sprinter-class conversion base across Australia, Japan and Asia — not sold new in the United States or Canada.
Official source: Toyota Australia — HiAce Spec Table (August 2025, PDF) →
Toyota's cab-over-engine light van and the dominant Sprinter-class conversion base across Australia, New Zealand, Japan and much of Asia and Latin America. The HiAce is not sold new in the United States or Canada: U.S. safety and emissions certification requirements, combined with the 25-year rule restricting import of vehicles never certified for the American market, have kept every generation off North American roads.
The current (H300, 2019–present) generation is offered in Australia in LWB (Long Wheelbase, 3,210 mm / 126 in.) and SLWB (Super Long Wheelbase, 3,860 mm / 152 in.) forms. Both use a 2.8-litre turbodiesel with rear-wheel drive — Toyota's spec sheet lists a leaf-sprung rigid rear axle, the layout used on rear-drive vans, not a front-wheel-drive platform. LWB cargo volume is 6.2 m³ and SLWB 9.3 m³; Toyota quotes the same 1,760 mm maximum internal width for both.
Toyota's published gross-vehicle-mass and kerb-weight figures put payload at roughly 935–1,100 kg (about 2,060–2,425 lb) depending on grade. That 1,760 mm maximum width narrows considerably once the wheel arches intrude: an independent cargo-bay measurement put the usable width between the arches on the current body at 1,268 mm (about 50 in.) — the figure that actually decides whether a mattress fits crossways.
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