There’s a new Toyota Land Cruiser, and in case you’re like us, you are very enthusiastic about it. It seems nice and the specs are compelling. It is also essentially completely different from the final Land Cruiser. Apart from being solely powered by a turbocharged hybrid powertrain, it’s significantly smaller and cheaper than earlier than. That acquired us pondering: Toyota already has a smaller, cheaper off-roader that readily handles household transport. How does this smaller, cheaper Land Cruiser evaluate to the already smaller, cheaper Toyota 4Runner?
We dug into the specs and thru collectively a pair of charts to offer the reply. First, let’s check out the scale: wheelbase, size, width, peak and floor clearance (all in inches), in addition to the method, departure and breakover angles (all in levels). Word that the 4Runner numbers are for many four-wheel-drive fashions. The TRD Professional, Restricted and TRD Sport may theoretically be completely different.
As you may see, the brand new 2024 Land Cruiser could also be smaller than its predecessor, nevertheless it’s nonetheless greater than the present 4Runner. If we have been to make an informed guess, it appears probably that the next-generation 4Runner will probably be similar to the present one so it does not run into the Land Cruiser’s territory. We additionally would not be shocked if it was a bit smaller, since these on the lookout for their Toyota off-roader to function household transport could also be more likely to look towards the Land Cruiser anyway.
Right now’s 4Runner has higher clearances than the brand new Land Cruiser, and if the next-generation holds the dimensional line as we suspect, it might too. It has better floor clearance than the Land Cruiser in addition to superior method and departure angles. I strongly suspect that the 4Runner would have a breakover benefit of about 2 levels, however Toyota does not publish a determine for the 4Runner and its determine for the Land Cruiser does not equal what the standard breakover angle calculation would quantity to, so let’s simply go away it at TBD.
As for the powertrain, the Land Cruiser torpedoes the 4Runner, however then that would not be arduous to do. The 4Runner’s 4.0-liter V6 and five-speed automated combo is likely one of the most antiquated powertrains in the marketplace (I am struggling to think about one thing ye older), whereas the i-Drive Max Hybrid system is Toyota’s newest and biggest. As you may see, energy and torque aren’t remotely shut. The Land Cruiser must be fairly fast, whereas the 4Runner is kind of gradual (particularly with the heavier TRD Professional).
Toyota didn’t launch gas economic system figures for the brand new Land Cruiser, but when they are not superior to the 4Runner’s 17 mpg mixed, we might be shocked. That stated, we have discovered the i-Drive Max hybrid system to vastly underperform its gas economic system estimates within the Sequoia and Tundra. Although the estimates say the Sequoia ought to get 20 mpg mixed with four-wheel drive, we noticed real-world figures nearer to fifteen mpg mixed. A number of Tundras have equally been about 5 mpg off its estimates. We’ll have to attend and see whether or not the Land Cruiser follows this development.
Ultimately, the Land Cruiser seems sensational, the specs are intriguing, and it solely makes us extra desirous to learn the way Toyota will redesign the 4Runner to suit into its revised off-roader lineup.
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