The Toyota Hilux Legend 55 & the salute to Super Steyn

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Published on 23rd October 2025 | Leave a response

Frans Steyn and the new Toyota Hilux Legend 55 carry a similar status and legacy in being world-class and winners, writes Mark Keohane.

Steyn is an iconic rugby figure in South Africa and the sport internationally and thanks to a collaboration with Toyota Hilux Legend 55 and the Keo & Zels show, we get to showcase and celebrate a player who won the World Cup, in 2007, as a 20 year-old and won the 2019 World Cup as a seasoned veteran.

Steyn spent half his career playing in France but finished his playing career at the Toyota Cheetahs, then immediately was appointed Director of Rugby at the Cheetahs and has extended his role to head coach of the Cheetahs, who played in the SA Cup, Currie Cup and will from December play in the EPCR has taken charge of the Cheetahs as head coach.

In celebrating the arrival of the @ToyotaSA Hilux Legend 55, we salute one of South Africa’s most legendary players — Frans Steyn, double World Cup winner and Bok great.#Toyota #Legend55 #ToyotaBakkiesSA #NotJustABakkie pic.twitter.com/EwJ2y3gvQs

— SA Rugby magazine (@SARugbymag) October 21, 2025

The Cheetahs are in a action on Sunday, 26th October against Georgia’s Black Lion in the second of a two-match Toyota Challenge Series.

Black Lion won last Friday’s match 39-38.

Steyn’s career is one of excellence and quality and it is fitting that the lad who made Grey College’s rugby fields in Bloemfontein his own as a schoolboy is now in charge of making the Cheetahs a professional force in rugby once again.

He played 78 matches for the Springboks, Steyn won the World Cup on two occasions in 2007 and 2019, and is the second South African player to have won the tournament twice, as well as the youngest World Champion in the history. He also won The Rugby Championship (previously named Tri Nations) twice.

RUGBY WORLD: 10 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT FRANS STEYN

Provincial / State sides
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
2009–2012	Racing Métro 92	59	(159)
2014–2015	Toshiba Brave Lupus	11	(47)
2015–2016	Toshiba Brave Lupus	10	(65)
2016–2020	Montpellier	102	(228)
2020–2022	Cheetahs	1	(0)
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
2006–2009	Sharks	18	(70)
2013	Sharks	2	(0)
2021–2023	Free State Cheetahs	18	(87)
Super Rugby
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
2007–2009	Sharks	38	(78)
2012–2014	Sharks	30	(167)
2015	Sharks	7	(38)
2020	Cheetahs	5	(0)
International career
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
2004–2005	South Africa U20	10	(64)
2006–2014	Springbok XV	3	(9)
2006–2022	South Africa	78	(168)
2007–2014	Barbarians	2	(0)
Coaching career
Years	Team
2025-	Cheetahs