The Toyota Land Cruiser is at the moment absent from the US market, however a high-ranked Toyota govt mentioned that the historic nameplate will seemingly make a return sooner or later.

Motortrend spoke with Jack Hollis, govt vp of gross sales at Toyota Motor North America. When requested a few attainable return of the Land Cruiser within the US, Hollis mentioned: “Will we ever? I’d say seemingly sure”.

Whereas Hollis didn’t reveal something in regards to the timing of a attainable US launch, he went on to elaborate: “Clearly, the Land Cruiser is such an essential a part of our heritage and has achieved such an incredible job. And I’ll be it, completely. Have I seen designs, ideas, and hopes, sure. However nothing to announce. It’s nonetheless a methods off”.

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Studying between the traces, the chief vp of gross sales is probably going speaking a few new Land Cruiser and never one of many present fashions which can be provided elsewhere on the planet.

Talking of the present vary, the Toyota Land Cruiser Sequence 300, launched in 2021, has been an absolute hit by way of gross sales, with lengthy ready lists and excessive asking costs within the used automotive market. The automaker determined to not carry the brand new era stateside, leaving People with the only real choice of its premium brother – the Lexus LX.

One other member of the Land Cruiser household is the smaller Prado (Sequence 150) which is rumored to get a brand new era in 2023 or 2024 because it stays largely unchanged since 2009. Once more, the US didn’t get the Prado in favor of the carefully associated Lexus GX, however issues might change with the mannequin’s subsequent era.

When Toyota introduced it could drop the Land Cruiser from the US lineup after 2021 MY, a window of hope was left open. Again then, the automaker prompted “lovers and intrepid adventurers to remain tuned for future developments”. Whereas this doesn’t affirm {that a} new Land Cruiser is coming, it’s definitely a touch.

Regardless of the future holds, Toyota followers hope that the Land Cruiser will retain the body-on-frame recipe. Electrification appears inevitable in some unspecified time in the future, however it could seemingly begin with hybrid variants of the present petrol and diesel engines earlier than a Land Cruiser with a totally electrical powertrain arrives. In any case, US consumers who’re enthusiastic about a Land Cruiser have to be armed with endurance.