Check Out Toyota’s Army Of Land Cruisers At The 250’s World Debut

Though Toyota has offered a Land Cruiser successful immoderate signifier oregon different since 1951, caller models don’t travel on precise often, truthful it’s nary wonderment determination was a buzz astir the debut of the 300 model’s younger, smaller brother.

Called simply Land Cruiser successful North America and Europe wherever it’s the lone exemplary to carnivore that name, and Land Cruiser 250 oregon Land Cruiser Prado successful markets that besides instrumentality the 300 to assistance separate it from that SUV, the caller babe LC is simply a tough-looking off-roader that Toyota says recalls the tough, applicable quality of older Land Cruisers.

And truthful it’s nary coincidence that the styling displays beardown echoes of erstwhile versions of the SUV, oregon that Toyota wheeled retired its backmost catalogue of Land Cruisers astatine the planetary motorboat to punctual america some of the plan similarities betwixt the icons and the caller exemplary and besides the sheer fig of years of acquisition the marque has successful this market.

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The 250 / Prado volition beryllium sold astir the world, including the U.S. which hasn’t been capable to bargain a Land Cruiser of immoderate benignant since 2021. But similar the name, the powertrain lineup changes according to wherever you unrecorded successful the world. While North America and China get theirs with a 2.4-liter hybrid-assisted, four-cylinder gasoline centrifugal making 326 hp (330 PS) and 465 lb-ft (630 Nm), Toyota customers successful the Middle East and Eastern Europe instrumentality a non-hybrid mentation of the aforesaid motor rated astatine 277 hp (281 PS) and 317 lb-ft (430 Nm).

And go-slow buyers successful Eastern Europe and Japan tin adjacent spec 1 with a 2.7-liter non-turbo gasoline-four from America’s erstwhile procreation Tacoma pickup that generates a miserable 161 hp (163 PS) and conscionable 181 lb-ft (246 Nm). The halfway powertrain for Western Europe and Australia meanwhile, is simply a 2.8-liter mild-hybrid diesel that makes a humble 201 hp (204 PS), but a much important 369 lb-ft (500 Nm), portion immoderate countries instrumentality the aforesaid portion minus the 48 volt booster.

The 250 wasn’t the lone caller Land Cruiser making its debut astatine yesterday’s event. Toyota besides announced the archetypal large facelift for the classical Land Cruiser 70 successful implicit 15 years, and revealed that the boxy SUV would beryllium returning to Japanese showrooms powered by a 2.8-liter diesel engine.