Toyota’s Legendary SUV Returns to North America.
By Sue Mead
The Land Cruiser Heritage Museum, in Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah, was the best location to stage the return of Toyota’s longest-running nameplate for near 150 members of the automotive press and Toyota executives. The 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser comes again to the North American market after a three-year hiatus, bringing some huge adjustments, whereas holding its heritage as a major ingredient on the identical time.
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The brand new ‘Cruiser is smaller, narrower, and certain nimbler. Plus, Toyota guarantees a bunch of latest options that may play nicely each on the freeway and on again nation trails.
A few of the prime information, nevertheless, is a beginning value that may start within the mid $50,000s vary; the previous-gen Land Cruiser was priced beginning within the $85,000 vary
The all-new Land Cruiser will probably be supplied in three fashions when it goes on sale within the spring: a First Version grade restricted to five,000 items for North America outfitted with spherical heritage headlamps, two-tone paint, roof rack, rock rails, and an unique exterior design; the 1958 grade that may characteristic the traditional spherical headlamps and a Toyota heritage grill, and black cloth seats; whereas customary grades will probably be crafted with slim rectangular headlights harking back to the traditional FJ 62 off-roader.
“This icon belongs in our lineup,” says Toyota group vp and normal supervisor, Dave Christ. “For 2024 Land Cruiser returns to its origin with a heritage-inspired design paired with the legendary functionality and sturdiness Land Cruiser is understood for, and it’ll take much more clients on adventures throughout the globe because it has finished for generations.”
The brand new Land Cruisers will probably be constructed on Toyota’s TNGA-F world truck platform that boasts a fully-boxed framed and laser welds. This identical fundamental structure is discovered below the newly redesign Lexus GX.
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Energy will come completely from the model’s 2.4-liter i-FORCE MAX 4-cylinder engine. The turbocharged hybrid powerplant is rated at 365 horsepower, and may assist the brand new Land Cruise ship considerably higher gas economic system than its predecessor.
Predictably, all Land Cruiser variants will come customary with AWD and a 2-speed switch case. A tow hitch will even be customary. Toyota says the brand new Land Cruiser can tow as much as 6000 kilos. Off-road lovers will benefit from the 8.7 inches of floor clearance, customary tow hooks, automated limited-slip differential, middle and rear locking differentials, and car stability management system.
A brand new double-wishbone entrance suspension with twin tube shocks is paired with a multi-link rear suspension with coil springs.
Off highway by the numbers: the brand new Land Cruiser includes a most strategy angle of 31 levels, max departure angle of twenty-two levels, and a breakover of 25 levels. An accessible in-cabin front-stabilizer-bar disconnect will enhance steering angles within the tough stuff, and non-obligatory rock rails and full-coverage skid plates add further off-road safety.
Different notable options embody an accessible 12.3-inch touchscreen that shows the most recent Toyota Audio Multimedia system and a Multi Terrain Monitor. Toyota’s complete Security Sense 3.0 suite is customary on all fashions.
The 2024 Land Cruiser will probably be supplied in seven exterior colour selections: Ice Cap, Wind Chill Pearl, Underground, Black, Meteor Bathe, Path Mud, and Heritage Blue. The 2-tone Path Mud and Heritage Blue exterior colours characteristic a Grayscape roof.
The 2024 Land Cruiser will probably be in-built Toyota Motor Company’s Tahara and Hino vegetation in Japan.
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