How Toyota Got the 2024 Land Cruiser So Wrong — Full Review & History — Jason Cammisa on the ICONS скачать в хорошем качестве

How Toyota Got the 2024 Land Cruiser So Wrong — Full Review & History — Jason Cammisa on the ICONS

This is the definitive on- and off-road review of the J250-series Toyota Land Cruiser, putting its challenges into perspective by explaining how it fits into the 70-year Land Cruiser lineage, together with the 2024 Lexus GX550. === Join the Hagerty Driver's Club: https://bit.ly/Join-HDC-Cammisa-ICONS Visit the Land Cruiser Heritage Museum: https://landcruiserhm.com/ === The new J250-series Toyota Land Cruiser isn't smaller, but it is less costly than the J200 it replaced. It's also a major departure from all of the previous Land Cruisers that have cemented the brand's reputation. For the first time, a U.S.-spec Land Cruiser stems from the "Prado" sub-brand of lighter-duty Land Cruisers. And for the first time, it the nameplate is also sold as the Lexus GX. It's also a 4-cylinder hybrid, another first for the Land Cruiser, and that powertrain presents some cargo-space challenges, as the battery is incompatible with a third-row of seats and takes up cargo space. Cammisa takes to Salt Lake City's "Land Cruiser Heritage Museum" and drives an FJ40, a HJ61, an HDJ81, and both the TJH250 Land Cruiser and the VJA252 Lexus GX550. The history starts with the original Toyota-Jeep BJ, using Toyota's B-Series six-cylinder, a copy of the Chevrolet Stovebolt Six from the late 1920s. After a big update, the BJ became the FJ20, which were the first Land Cruisers sold in the U.S. (for the 1958 model year.) It continued on as the FJ40, which was sold for nearly 40 more years! But the vehicles we know in America as the Land Cruiser are from a different branch of the Family Tree: the Land Cruiser Station Wagon. This began with the 1970s FJ55, known as the Iron Pig — but the formula finally gelled with the 1980 FJ60. And then the later 80-series, which is the archetype of Land Cruisers as America's Stealth Wealth SUV. It was replaced by the 100-series and 200-series Land Cruisers, which didn't sell particularly well, and so their replacement, the 300-series Land Cruiser, is sold in America only as the Lexus LX600. It seems the Land Cruiser formula works better with a Lexus Badge on it — capability and luxury together. But Toyota has a branding problem: the 4-cylinder Land Cruiser, the 6-cylinder GX550, and the LX600 are now all the same vehicle. Technically the LC and the GX are J250 while the LX is a J300 Land Cruiser, but the vehicles share wheelbase and most equipment. Meaning the lines between Land Cruiser and Lexus have blurred, melding completely with the Prado lineup. What is clear, however, is that the Lexus GX550 solves most of the J250 Land Cruiser's problems. Learn more about it in this feature-length, stunningly beautiful history lesson and review. ==== Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications! http://bit.ly/HagertyYouTube Visit our website for an insurance quote, to join Hagerty Drivers Club, and for daily automotive news, cars stories, reviews, and opinion: https://www.hagerty.com Contact us: Suggestions and feedback - [email protected] Press inquiries - [email protected] Partnership requests - [email protected]