Toyota Avensis Saloon, T27

Deliberately unexciting, and built to a standard the European mid-size cars of this era mostly didn't reach.

Overview

The T27 is the sedan Toyota Avensis, built 2009–2018 and facelifted in 2015. 4 standard engines are documented here, each with its own issue list, inspection sequence and price band. Asking prices across the standard range run €2,900–€9,300, and 1 of the 4 carry a risk level of 4 or 5; the facelift cars sit at a premium over otherwise identical pre-facelift ones. The 1.6 Valvematic 1ZR-FAE is both the cheapest way in, from €3,700, and the lowest-risk engine of the range, which makes it the obvious starting point. Prices are illustrative placeholders rather than a sourced market sample. See the methodology.

Body stylesedanProduction2009–2018
Platform siblingsT27 Tourer wagonFacelift (LCI)2015
What changed at the 2015 facelift
New nose, lights and interior; 1.6 D-4D replaced the 2.0 D-4D in some markets; Revised suspension and sound insulation. The engine changes are the ones that matter, a car built in the changeover year can carry either engine, so check the engine code on the block rather than the registration date.

Engine matrix: pre-facelift, 2009–2014

The 4 variants sold before the 2015 facelift. Power and years come from the variant records; prices are illustrative, not sourced.

4 of 4
Badge↕EngineFuelYears↕Power↑Torque↕Risk↕IssuesPrice band↕Good buy↕Verdict
2.0 D-4D1AD-FTVdiesel2009–2014126 PS310 NmR23€3,250–€8,100€4,150BuyView
1.6 Valvematic1ZR-FAEpetrol2009–2014132 PS160 NmR11€2,900–€7,200€3,700BuyView
2.2 D-4D2AD-FTVdiesel2009–2014150 PS340 NmR44€3,050–€7,650€3,950CautionView
2.0 Valvematic3ZR-FAEpetrol2009–2014152 PS196 NmR12€3,400–€8,550€4,400Strong buyView

Engine matrix: facelift / LCI, 2015–2018

The 4 variants sold from the facelift on, priced at a 9% premium over the pre-facelift car.

4 variants from the facelift on, carrying a real market premium of roughly 9% over an otherwise identical pre-facelift car. Variants appearing in both tables were sold either side of the changeover, the build month decides which one you're looking at, not the model year.

4 of 4
Badge↕EngineFuelYears↕Power↑Torque↕Risk↕IssuesPrice band↕Good buy↕Verdict
2.0 D-4D1AD-FTVdiesel2015–2015126 PS310 NmR23€3,550–€8,850€4,550BuyView
1.6 Valvematic1ZR-FAEpetrol2015–2018132 PS160 NmR11€3,150–€7,850€4,050BuyView
2.2 D-4D2AD-FTVdiesel2015–2015150 PS340 NmR44€3,350–€8,350€4,350CautionView
2.0 Valvematic3ZR-FAEpetrol2015–2018152 PS196 NmR12€3,750–€9,300€4,850Strong buyView

Market availability varied by country; check the engine code stamped on the block rather than the badge on the boot. · Compare every engine side by side →

Model-year availability

Which engines were on sale in which year, from the year ranges in the variant records. Availability varied by country.

Variant09101112131415161718
2.0 D-4D 1AD-FTV●●●●●●◐
1.6 Valvematic 1ZR-FAE●●●●●●●●●●
2.2 D-4D 2AD-FTV●●●●●●◐
2.0 Valvematic 3ZR-FAE●●●●●●●●●●

● full year · ◐ arrives or leaves mid-generation. Years from 2015 in the accent colour are facelift (LCI) cars. Verify the engine code, not the model year.

Rating map, price against risk

Good-buy price plotted against risk level for every standard engine, so the value corner is visible at a glance.

Every standard engine in the chassis, plotted at its good-buy price against its risk level. Cheap and low-risk is the top-left; expensive and fragile is the bottom-right. M cars are excluded, they would stretch the price axis and tell you nothing about the rest.

cheap · low risk€3.8k€4k€4.3kR1R2R3R4R5good-buy price →risk ↓1.6 Valvematic 1ZR-FAE: Buy, risk 1, good buy €3,7001.6 Valvematic2.0 Valvematic 3ZR-FAE: Strong buy, risk 1, good buy €4,4002.0 Valvematic2.2 D-4D 2AD-FTV: Caution, risk 4, good buy €3,9502.2 D-4D2.0 D-4D 1AD-FTV: Buy, risk 2, good buy €4,1502.0 D-4D
Buy / strong buy Buy with conditions Caution / avoidLeft is cheaper, up is safer. The top-left corner is where the value is.

Prices across the range

Where the money sits across the whole chassis. Every figure here is an illustrative placeholder, not a sourced market sample.

Every standard engine on one euro axis: the bar spans the 10th to 90th percentile of asking prices, the tick is the median and the green marker is the good-buy figure. GR cars are excluded; they sit an order of magnitude above the rest.

Cheapest good buy€3,7001.6 Valvematic 1ZR-FAE
Median good buy€4,150across 4 engines
Dearest good buy€4,4002.0 Valvematic 3ZR-FAE
Full range€2,900–€9,300P10 to P90

Every standard engine · cheapest first · 2.0 Valvematic 3ZR-FAE highlighted as best value

€4k€6k€8kGood buy
1.6 Valvematic 1ZR-FAE€3,7002.2 D-4D 2AD-FTV€3,9502.0 D-4D 1AD-FTV€4,1502.0 Valvematic 3ZR-FAE€4,400

at or under the good buy · good buy · median · bar spans the 10th–90th percentile

Chassis-wide issues, every engine inherits these

Faults recorded against the bodyshell and running gear rather than one engine, so every variant on this page inherits them.

Very little recorded against the bodyAvensis platform€150–€400
Nothing widespread. Ordinary wear on the suspension and interior of a car that often worked as a fleet vehicle. This generation has no endemic body or electrical fault of the kind that defines its European rivals. What turns up is ordinary age and use, which is why the engine choice matters more here than the chassis does.
Check: Check the rear suspension and the boot floor on a ramp for signs of a hard-working life, and look at the interior wear against the stated mileage.
InterioruncommonDetectable at viewingevidence: documented150–300k km

Written once against the chassis and shown on every variant page below, so nothing here is repeated 4 times: GR cars included, since the bodyshell and electronics are shared.

Buying summary

Our read on the chassis, built on the records above rather than added to them.

Buy the petrol. The 1.8 and 2.0 Valvematic engines are chain-driven, undramatic and close to fault-free, which is the whole reason to choose this car. The diesel needs care, because the 2.2 D-4D can warp its cylinder head and Toyota extended warranties in several markets to cover exactly that. On any diesel, ask about journey type, since the particulate filter punishes short trips. A petrol Avensis with a full history is one of the lowest-risk cars in this database.

Cheapest and dearest in this chassis

The ends of the range by good-buy price. Useful for sanity-checking anything you're quoted.

Lowest entry price

1.6 Valvematic 1ZR-FAE : from €2,900, risk 1

2.2 D-4D 2AD-FTV : from €3,050, risk 4

2.0 D-4D 1AD-FTV : from €3,250, risk 2

Lowest risk

1.6 Valvematic 1ZR-FAE : risk 1, good buy at €3,700

2.0 Valvematic 3ZR-FAE : risk 1, good buy at €4,400

2.0 D-4D 1AD-FTV : risk 2, good buy at €4,150