Here’s the tragedy of the Land Cruiser Series 70: It was never sold in the United States. The toughest and most rugged of the whole Land Cruiser lineup is an icon in Australia and South Africa, exactly where they’ve been on sale constantly for 30 years. And for 20 of those years, you could walk into a Japanese Toyota dealer and plunk down a pile of yen for a Series 70 pickup or SUV.
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Even though the Series 70 soldiered on in other markets, for 10 years, Japanese enthusiasts begged the business to bring back the stalwart truck. For the Land Cruiser’s 30th anniversary, Toyota is going to. There’s a single catch and one silver lining. The catch is that they’ll only be sold for a year in Japan, and then it is off into the sunset, once again, for the 70. The silver lining is that, at existing exchange prices and excluding taxes, they’ll be the equivalent of $ 34,650 U.S. dollars, which seems like a steal. I can’t think about an SUV this large selling for significantly less than $ 50K in the U.S., ancient and bare-bones or not.
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Very good news for Japan, and the very same negative news as the past 30 years for Americans. Meanwhile, in Australia, they don’t know what all the fuss is about, because the variants of the Series 70 they get make the boring quad-cab pickup and regular SUV versions in Japan look like 4WD Camrys. In Australia, they offer snorkel-equipped 70s in a single cab pickup and a troop-carrying version that seats up to 11 people. And while the Japanese 30th Anniversary Edition tends to make do with the normal corporate 4-liter 1GR-FE V-6 identified in most of the company’s trucks, the Australian models get the stump-pulling 1VD-FTV turbo-diesel V-8 with 583 lb-ft of torque.
With a structure dating back to 1984, we’ll in no way see a brand new LHD Series 70 sold right here. But keep in mind, the 25-year rule means importing RHD versions from abroad is a true possibility.
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This story originally appeared on roadandtrack.com
30 Years New: Toyota Japan to Sell Brand-New Land Cruiser Series 70—for A single Year
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