Perodua Bezza vs Toyota Hilux Comparison

The current form of the Perodua Bezza was introduced in 2020 – almost five years ago. This particular version itself is a mild facelifted version of the original car that debuted in 2016. That makes the Perodua Bezza almost a nine-year-old car with minimal design changes, and that age has now begun to show up.

The front profile of the Perodua Bezza looks pretty basic, with the sedan getting a sleek hexagonal grille with a glossy black and silver finish in G variants and a glossy black and chrome finish in the X and AV variants. The trapezoidal headlamps attached to the sides of the front grille have an all-LED arrangement as standard. The X and AV variants also get rounded halogen fog lamps within the inverted L-shaped black housings on the corners of the front bumper. 

The Perodua Bezza looks simple even from the side, where the sedan gets dual-tone side skirtings and chrome-finished door handles as standard. The rearview mirrors of the sedan come integrated with turn indicators and have electrical adjustability, while they also feature electrical foldability in the AV AT variant. While the G MT and G AT variants have 14-inch silver alloy wheels, the X AT and AV AT variants have 15-inch machined alloy wheels.

At the back, the simple-looking rear profile of the Perodua Bezza has trapezoidal tail lamps with LED inserts on the sides of the trapezoidal boot lid, which has a sleek chrome bar running across its width above the license plate housing. The Bezza is available in six colour schemes – Garnet Red, Granite Grey, Sugar Brown, Ocean Blue, Glittering Silver and Ivory White. 

Pros and cons:

Pro: Alloy wheels are offered as standard

Cons: Overall design language now feels dated

The previous generations of Toyota Hilux have built up a huge stature for themselves when it comes to unshakable reliability, with tough build quality all over it. Thankfully, that very trait has been passed to this very version of the Toyota Hilux as well, with the current generation model possessing even tougher in feel body panels.

Compared to the previous generations of the Toyota Hilux which were blamed for not being modern and impressive in their looks in and out, the current generation model manages to solve that problem to a huge extent. The Hilux looks quite butch on the outside, and at the same time, the interior cabin layout shared with that of the Fortuner SUV give the Hilux some premium feel on the inside as well.