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Toyota Confirms Four-Year Wait List for New Land Cruiser (motor1.com)
19 points by teleforce on Jan 24, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments



Why somebody wants an inferior, and downgraded version of a 12 years old SUV?

By all reviews, 300 greatly miss on offroad features, and its performance went down accordingly.


4Runner/Fortuner/Hilux are all significantly capable vehicles, just slightly less heavy duty than the land cruiser. They aren’t built to circumnavigate Africa quite as much (or to serve the ego of whatever local UN office is prading it around in a developing country) but will do most everything else off road for half the price, and with a healthy aftermarket of higher end components if you want to enhance capabilities


Are people actually buying new landcruisers for African off-roading adventures? The 70's-80's models make sense but a bulky 2022 SUV that costs 90k before all other (necessary) upgrades, with an automatic gearbox and highly computerised system seems like a nightmare to take on such trips.


> 4Runner/Fortuner/Hilux are all significantly capable vehicles, just slightly less heavy duty than the land cruiser.

Yep, and with downgrade 300 turns in a just 2 times more expensive version of 4Runner for no extra benefit.


I know this trick from my file manager, when it is transferring files. It does this when it wants me to switch USB...ports.

...Ah, I know, Toyota is dropping hints about tariffs and subsidies!

Maybe?

https://www.electrive.com/2022/01/19/toyota-close-to-hitting...


maybe




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