Look for the new Cruiser to be smaller and more affordable than the big one that exited our market two years ago.
, Tundra, Sequoia, and Lexus LX600, would not be sold here like so many of its predecessors dating back decades. That is not, however, where the Land Cruiser story ends here in the US of A.Toyota executives have dropped several hints
regarding its reintroduction here—only it won't take the form you're expecting. The full-size J300 is out, largely for the same reasons it wasn't brought here in the first place: It's too expensive, sold in too few numbers, and overlaps rather heavily with its Lexus LX sibling . No, for the Land Cruiser nameplate's return to the U.S., Toyota is hoping to widen its appeal with a more wieldy size and a more palatable MSRP.
It's a pretty good guess that the next-generation 4Runner, which is switching to the Taco's TNGA-F architecture, will stay roughly the same size and drop its available third-row seat while more directly attacking adventure vehicles such as the four-door Jeep Wrangler and Ford Bronco . This would open up just enough airspace for the Land Cruiser, which would be adapted from the global Toyota Prado—another soon-to-be-redesigned future TNGA-F adoptee—much like the 2024 Lexus GX.
Certain versions of the new Tacoma pickup ride on an old-school leaf-spring rear suspension, but the new Land Cruiser will get the multilink, coil-sprung setup from the off-road variants. The more powerful 326-hp hybridized turbo I-4 engine might also be borrowed from the Tacoma, at least for entry-level Land Cruisers, though it's also possible Toyota could install the twin-turbo V-6 from the Tundra and Sequoia, again with or without hybridization for close to 400 hp.
, it market the first time the model hadn't been offered here in the U.S. for some 60 years. At the time, when Toyota announced that the new model wouldn't be coming to the U.S., it left the door open a crack that it would return at some point, but was very vague.
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