First Look: 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser | The Each day Drive
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Toyota’s Legendary SUV Returns to North America.
By Sue Mead
The Land Cruiser Heritage Museum, in Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah, was the perfect 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 large modifications, whereas protecting its heritage as a big ingredient on the similar time.
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The brand new ‘Cruiser is smaller, narrower, and certain nimbler. Plus, Toyota guarantees a number of latest options that can play nicely each on the freeway and on again nation trails.
A number of the high information, nonetheless, is a beginning worth that can 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 models for North America geared up with spherical heritage headlamps, two-tone paint, roof rack, rock rails, and an unique exterior design; the 1958 grade that can function the basic spherical headlamps and a Toyota heritage grill, and black cloth seats; whereas customary grades will probably be crafted with slim rectangular headlights paying homage to the basic FJ 62 off-roader.
“This icon belongs in our lineup,” says Toyota group vice chairman and basic 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 international truck platform that boasts a fully-boxed framed and laser welds. This similar 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 will assist the brand new Land Cruise ship considerably higher gasoline financial system than its predecessor.
Predictably, all Land Cruiser variants will come customary with AWD and a 2-speed switch case. A tow hitch may 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, computerized limited-slip differential, middle and rear locking differentials, and automobile 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 street by the numbers: the brand new Land Cruiser includes a most method 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-compulsory rock rails and full-coverage skid plates add extra off-road safety.
Different notable options embrace 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 coloration decisions: Ice Cap, Wind Chill Pearl, Underground, Black, Meteor Bathe, Path Mud, and Heritage Blue. The 2-tone Path Mud and Heritage Blue exterior colours function a Grayscape roof.
The 2024 Land Cruiser will probably be in-built Toyota Motor Company’s Tahara and Hino crops in Japan.
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