Toyota to reopen order books for Fortuner on July1

All the loyal fans who have been waiting for close to six months to book their beloved Fortuner can finally run to Toyota dealerships and book theirs as soon as possible. Going by the record, its only a matter of weeks before bookings are closed again. Bookings will officially reopen on July 1, 2010 after being closed way back in January. However, the bad news is that your Fortuner will only be delivered between October-December 2010. At this point we assume that you are thinking “Better late than never”. True. We second you.

Launched in August 2009, the Fortuner has sold a mind-boggling 8500 units capturing 60% of the market share and literally stripping the CR-V and the lot of any sales at all. Toyota have also increased their production capacity to produce 950 units of Fortuner per month from 500.

Let’s hear what Sandeep Singh, deputy managing director-Marketing has to say,

“We would like to thank our customers for the extremely encouraging response till date. The resounding success of the Fortuner in India also meant a backlog of customer orders and high waiting periods. We have now increased the production of the vehicle to more than 950 units to clear the present backlog of less than 4000 customer orders by this September. We are happy to reopen the bookings from the 1st of July for a limited period, and will start deliveries of the vehicle from October until December 2010.”