SALT LAKE CITY — Toyota’s honored Land Cruiser nameplate rejoins the model’s Canadian and U.S. lineups subsequent yr in a trimmed-down and less-expensive kind a lot nearer to the off-roader’s roots than its bloated predecessor, which had advanced to overlap comparable body-on-frame Lexus fashions.
The 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser can be smaller, extra nimble and geared up with a hybridized turbocharged powertrain, a number of infotainment and driver help options and a boxy look that evokes its early heritage.
Imported from Japan and primarily based on the Land Cruiser Prado that Toyota sells in Japan and different international markets — badged within the U.S. because the Lexus GX — the U.S. model of the Land Cruiser will begin within the mid-$50,000 vary in the USA, Toyota stated. As compared, when Toyota suspended U.S. gross sales of Land Cruiser in 2021 after a 63-year run, the low-volume off-roader began south of the border at US$86,880, together with transport.
Toyota final bought the car in Canada in 1989. And Toyota Canada stated in a information launch solely that pricing of the brand new era of auto can be “at a extra accessible worth level.” Toyota Canada added that “producer’s recommended retail pricing can be introduced nearer to its on-sale date.”
“This icon belongs in our lineup,” Toyota division head Dave Christ stated in a written assertion. “For 2024, Land Cruiser returns to its origin with a heritage-inspired design paired with the legendary functionality and sturdiness Land Cruiser is thought for, and it’ll take much more prospects on adventures throughout the globe because it has completed for generations.”
The 2024 Land Cruiser is 4.4 inches (111.7 millimetres) narrower than the earlier model bought in America and 1.2 inches (30.4 mm) shorter, and it’s constructed on the automaker’s international F1 body-on-frame platform. With floor clearance of as much as 8.7 inches (220.9 mm), it has an method angle of as much as 31 levels, max departure angle of twenty-two levels and a breakover angle of 25 levels.
Beneath the hood, it will likely be powered by a turbocharged 2.4-litre engine mated to an eight-speed automated transmission that has an built-in 48-hp electrical motor and small, separate battery. The iForce Max hybrid powertrain generates as much as 365 hp and 465 pound-feet of torque. Gasoline economic system can be revealed sooner or later.
Toyota will unveil a double-wishbone entrance suspension with twin-tube shocks, with a multi-link and coil spring setup within the rear. The 2024 Land Cruiser will function full-time four-wheel drive with an electronically managed two-speed switch case and centre-locking differential.
Toyota says the 2024 Land Cruiser can be able to towing as much as 6,000 kilos (2,721 kilograms).
By way of security, the Land Cruiser will come normal with Toyota Security Suite 3.0, the automaker’s suite of driver help applied sciences that features lane holding, dynamic cruise management, automated high-beam headlights and pre-collision help with pedestrian detection.
The 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser will arrive in dealerships within the spring.