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.”