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Can a Toyota HiLux Rogue 4x4 tow
a Golf Caravans Savannah 578?

The Toyota HiLux Rogue 4x4 (double-cab pick-up auto, V-Active 48V) (2025) is rated to tow 3,500kg braked.

Yes, this pairing is inside the published ratings

The Golf Caravans Savannah 578's published ATM of 2,420kg sits 1,080kg under the Toyota HiLux's 3,500kg braked towing rating.

Braked towing rating
3,500kg
The HiLux, manufacturer published
Towball rating
350kg
The HiLux, our estimate at 10% of the braked towing rating
ATM
2,420kg
The Savannah 578, maximum loaded weight, manufacturer published
Ball weight
215kg
The Savannah 578, manufacturer published

Important checks

  • The towball limit we hold for the Toyota HiLux is our estimate at 10% of the braked towing rating. Check the compliance plate or the owner's manual for the Toyota HiLux's own figure before you rely on this check.

This is a guide off the makers' published figures.The legal numbers are the compliance plates on your car and the van. Weigh the loaded rig at a public weighbridge to know for sure, then read the ticket.

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This pairing works - now get the safety gear

A van with electric brakes needs a brake controller in the car. You also need towing mirrors if the van blocks the view in your car's own mirrors.

Not sure which brake controller suits your car, or whether it already has one built in? Read the brake controller guide

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What towing this pair needs

  • A brake controller in the car. Coupled up, the Golf Caravans Savannah 578 puts about 2,205kg on its wheels, and Australian law needs a controller above 2,000kg GTM (Gross Trailer Mass).

    How to choose one →

Figures come from the makers' published specs for this exact pairing.

Before you tow

Towing weights are enforced against the plates on the two vehicles. The comparison above puts the Golf Caravans Savannah 578's published weights next to the Toyota HiLux's published ratings, so you know which numbers to look for on those plates.

Always check your compliance plate

Online databases use factory-standard specs. They do not know about the bullbar on your car, a suspension upgrade, or how much you are carrying. Each one changes your real limits.

How to find it

Open your passenger or driver door. Look for a silver or black metal plate riveted to the pillar.

Where the plate is and how to read it

Why the numbers move once you load up

The figure most often left out of the sum is payload, which is everything you add after the vehicles leave the factory.

  • Bullbar and winch: both add weight to the front of the car, and it comes out of your payload.
  • Passengers: everyone in the car, including the driver, comes out of its payload.
  • Ball weight: the weight the van puts on the towball comes out of your car's payload as well as its towing limit.

Work out what this van is allowed to carry, then check the figures before you pack it.

Learn to tow on a course

An instructor can teach you to hitch up, reverse and handle a loaded van before your first trip.

  • Tow-EdNSW, ACT, Queensland, South Australia and Victoria

    A nationally recognised one-day towing course, in your own car and van or a hired trailer.

  • RACQMount Cotton, south of Brisbane

    A caravan workshop on a closed course, with a weight check of your rig.

  • RAASouth Australia, at a place you choose

    Safe caravan and trailer use, taught in your own rig.

  • RACPerth, WA

    Tow Safe sessions on reversing and hitching, with the car and van supplied.

Toyota HiLux

Rogue 4x4 (double-cab pick-up auto, V-Active 48V) (2025)

Specs apply to 2025+ models
Tow capacity3,500kg
Ball weight limitOur estimate at 10% of tow capacity350kg
GCM (car and van together)6,300kg
Room left under GVMGVM (gross vehicle mass) is the most the car may weigh, loaded.3,120kg GVM, less 2,135kg kerb weight and the van's 215kg ball weight.Passengers, luggage and accessories must fit in what is left.770kg

Golf Caravans Savannah 578

Price on application

Golf Caravans Savannah 578
ATM (max weight)2,420kg
Ball weight215kg

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Every figure here describes the two vehicles as they left the factory. Anything fitted since then changes the numbers, and the plates on your own car and van are the ones that count.