Toyota’s small four-wheel-drive may be new, but its old engine isn’t clean enough to be sold in LandCruiser-loving Australia.

Emissions standards will bar the compact, petrol-only Toyota LandCruiser FJ off-roader from Australian showrooms for the foreseeable future.

It is not the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard – the targets penalising brands for selling too many high-CO2 vehicles – holding the Toyota 4WD back, but rather new Euro 6d legislation mandating the nitrogen oxide and other gases legally allowed to emerge from car exhausts.

The LandCruiser FJ is powered by a 2.7-litre non-turbo petrol engine, a 20-year-old unit that, in its current form in the HiLux Workmate in Australia, is only compliant with less stringent Euro 5 rules.

Government approval documents for the next HiLux, see

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