2026 Toyota bZ4X Touring Review: Toyota stretches its electric SUV with more space and more power, but can it fire up the brand’s EV sales?
Toyota has taken its electric SUV and stretched it. Literally.
The bZ4X Touring is 140mm longer than the regular bZ4X, bringing more space for passengers and a bigger boot.
But let’s face it, Toyota hasn’t exactly set the EV world on fire when it comes to sales.
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So can this wagon-flavoured newcomer turn things around?
2026 Toyota bZ4X Touring price and equipment
The bZ4X Touring is available as a single model priced at $69,990 plus on-road costs, positioning it as something of a flagship for the bZ4X family.
It gets the dual-motor all-wheel drive powertrain, but with a twist: whereas the dual-motor bZ4X makes 252kW, the Touring steps up to 280kW courtesy of a 167kW motor on each axle (the two can’t produce their maximums at the same time).
Energy comes from a 74.7kWh lithium-ion battery, with a claimed 488km of range on the WLTP cycle.
DC charging peaks at 150kW through a CCS plug, good for a 10-80 per cent charge in a claimed 28 minutes.
More impressive for a car pitched at touring duties is the 22kW three-phase AC charging, which drops a full charge to about 3.5 hours; most rivals top out at 11kW.
The bZ4X Touring gear list is generous.
There’s a 14-inch central touchscreen, a nine-speaker JBL sound system, dual wireless phone chargers, digital rear-view mirror and a 1500W inverter with a household three-pin plug for powering appliances – handy for camping duties or topping up a laptop.
The front seats are heated, ventilated and eight-way electrically adjustable, trimmed in synthetic leather in black or a khaki hue exclusive to the Touring.
There’s also a panoramic roof, powered tailgate, 20-inch alloys and roof rails rated to carry 80kg.
Servicing is required every 12 months or 15,000km (the km limit is short by EV standards) and costs $190 for the first five services.
After that, service pricing ranges from around $200 to more than $400.
2026 Toyota bZ4X Touring: What we think
The big sales pitch with the bZ4X Touring is space.
That extra 140mm is all at the rear of the car, so it gets a unique look – quite a different styling aesthetic to the back of the regular bZ4X – complete with a more vertical tailgate.
The payoff is a 603-litre boot, 151 litres more than the regular car. Plenty of space to pack a whole bunch in.
There are benefits elsewhere, too.
Because the Touring is more like a wagon in its roof profile, it holds that roofline for longer – so there’s more headroom for rear-seat occupants, making the back seat a more comfortable place to be.
Once you settle into the driver’s seat, though, the Touring is very similar to a regular bZ4X.
It’s a nice, open and airy cabin with decent space and a sensible layout.
The finishes and materials are a bit grey, a bit Toyota-sensible, but they get the job done while still having a bit of an upmarket flavour – some of the softer-touch finishes work well, and the fake leather on the seats is pretty convincing.
One quirk carried over from the regular car: the digital instrument cluster sits well forward, so you look over the steering wheel rather than through it.
For me, one of the big appeals with the Touring is that it is fairly normal. In many ways it looks and feels like other Toyota SUVs, whether it’s a RAV4 or anything else.
Instead of packing everything into the touchscreen, you’ve still got physical controls. To adjust the temperature there are separate dials – funkily incorporated into the corners of the instrument cluster – and there’s a proper volume dial. Little things that make it easier to live with.
Similarly, the driver assistance systems are not overbearing. They’re well tuned and well integrated, so you can just leave them on and let them do their job. That’s refreshing in an era when some cars are getting a little too beepy and bongy.
Then there’s the pace.
With 280kW the Touring is a genuinely quick car – the 0-100km/h claim is 4.5 seconds – and when you step on the throttle it responds immediately.
It’s good to drive, too. Yes, it’s carrying a bit of weight with the extra metal, but it sits nicely on the road, it’s pretty agile and you can have some fun if you want to.
The Touring also gets three off-road modes – Normal, Snow/Dirt and Deep Snow/Mud – plus downhill assist control, although with no spare wheel and modest clearance we wouldn’t go getting too adventurous.
Range-wise, the 488km claim puts it in the mix with other mid-sized electric SUVs, but it’s certainly not at the top end. It’s OK, basically.
One thing worth keeping in mind if you’ve got the Touring on your EV shortlist: don’t ignore the Subaru Trailseeker.
It’s essentially the same car. They come out of the same factory with the same body and the same features, with minor design differences between the pair.
2026 Toyota bZ4X Touring: Verdict
The bZ4X Touring is more of the same, but bigger – and usefully so.
The extra boot space, extra rear headroom and adventure-ready touches make a decent difference for anyone using it as a family car or needing extra space.
At $69,990 it’s not exactly a bargain, but it is well done in a Toyota sort of a way.
Safe and sensible, without rewriting the electric car rule books.
Score: 4/5
2026 Toyota bZ4X Touring specifications
Price: $69,990 plus on-road costs
Basics: EV, 5 seats, 5 doors, SUV, AWD
Range: 488km (WLTP)
Battery capacity: 74.7kWh
Battery warranty: 8 years/160,000km (70 per cent capacity); 5 years, extendable to 10 with annual health checks
Energy consumption: 16.8kWh/100km
Motors: 2; 167kW front and 167kW rear; 280kW combined
AC charging: 22kW, Type 2 plug
DC charging: 150kW, CCS combo plug
0-100km/h: 4.5 seconds
