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By redesigning the 2024 Land Cruiser, Toyota reinforces its commitment to off-road excellence. In this episode, we share our first impressions of the new Land Cruiser, highlighting its hybrid powertrain, nostalgic design elements, and off-road capabilities. We also explore how Consumer Reports' new CR Recommended initiative enhances value for car buyers. Additionally, we look at whether front-wheel-drive EVs offer any real benefit.
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SHOW NOTES
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00:00 – Introduction
00:16 – Overview: 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser
03:09 – Land Cruiser’s History
04:38 – New and Different
06:56 – Driving
09:45 – Things We Dislike
14:18 – The Ride
15:08 – Interior
15:48 – Controls
16:27 – Visibility
17:03 – Do We Like It?
18:59 – Would We Buy It?
23:33 – Question #1: What is CR Recommended?
28:19 – Question #2: Are there any significant benefits to using a front-wheel-drive configuration for EVs?
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First Drive: 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser Is a Charming Throwback With a Touch of Modernity
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For me, Any vehicle over $40k better have leather or leatherette seats. No cloth 🙄
I hate leather, I rather have cloth
LC in Asia is so different than this blasphemy.
I know.
Asia, South America, Africa, & Australia get the REAL Landcruisers!
I’m jealous, but I’m happy for Your good fortune.
I’m sure CR predicted reliability would be high for the 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser while so far I see 12 members in LC owners forum experiencing the vehicle going to limp mode with errors on dash like “Drive start control malfunction”, :Hybrid system malfunction”, “System malfunction visit your dealer”. There are pics showing the errors on dash and vehicle towed. Toyota really need to rethink about reliability.
CR has changed and not for the better. They are biased towards vehicles and brands that get better MPG’s, have hybrids, smaller turbo engines, etc. in my opinion of course. 😂
You can find 12 drives on any vehicle with issues on any message board. Hell go on a Honda accord message board and there are issues. Not saying it will be great, but damn there are problems with ALL vehicles at times. My last 2014 Tacoma had 3 warranty repairs before 36k miles.
@@magnoliap5824They’re not “biased” – all three of the things you mentioned only affect MPG and, possibly, the smoothness of the powertrain. The cars are rated in all categories, not just those. If you’re too lazy to read their full road tests then that’s your fault. None of you armchair experts seem to know what the term bias even means.
I’d hold off and buy the 2nd or 3rd year of it.
When CR rated the first Tesla at over 100% I lost all a lot of respect for them. Then reading cars don’t qualify becouse of there own personal biased about not all models have safety features I lost all confidence in them.
Now there no more than entertainment.
I’m keeping my 1994 FJZ80 until the day I die!
I’ve always driven small cars and think giant SUVs are dumb in suburbia. But where I live, everyone drives gigantic vehicles now, and there is literally zero enforcement of traffic laws. I saw two people run red lights right in front of cops today just on my commute home, and the cops did nothing. Soooo if I decide to join the vehicular arms race, I’ll probably get a LC.
I love the looks of this and I think that’s what is going to sell it. I’d like Toyota to put the same plugin hybrid system they have in the Rav4 Prime with maybe a bigger battery and a little more horsepower. Forget about pretending that you are going to take it off road and call it the Land Poser or the Faux Cruiser. My guess is the vast majority of people will buy this and drive it on city streets 100 % of the time and all the off road capability will go to waste, so why not make a version that allows people to drive electric most of the time? I mean in addition to the regular Land Cruiser of course.
The only reason it’s cheaper is its a PRADO. Toyota out here passing off Discoverys as Ranges. I respect the utilitarian models more than the ultra luxe but cloth seats for 60K?
For the wealthy family that has a compound with bad roads…
I think I will do fine coming from my FJ62😂
Awesome job CR!
They did this with 4Runners too. I never understand ppl complaining that a truck based suv drives like a …..truck. Huh? It’s body on frame, it has a direct pickup sibling, yet they always seem so shocked that it’s ’truck like’
We know. We want that…
I bought my first Toyota in 1981. I’ve completely lost confidence in the company at this point, though.
What happens if a CR Recommended car has reliability go from OK to awful? How does CR stop the advertising?
I will stick with my 2019 4runner thank you
Okay Boomer
I really liked the style of the original Land Cruiser. My dad almost bought one in 1970, but at 3000 dollars plus, it just was too expensive. How I have hated how it has evolved into a monstrous gas guzzling tank, not worthy of backcountry trails. And it is still too expensive. Where is the Jeep-like vehicle that Toyota has left so far behind? Toyota with its resources could build a better Jeep than Jeep could. Why do we have this redesign?
I honestly think the squared headlights are the ones to get. The round version looks too outdated.
These Boomers are unbearable to listen to.
LC a “pretty iconic model”? lmao. it’s the #1 auto manufacturer’s longest standing model of all time. it’s a global platform unlike the bronco and jeep which pale in comparison.
A base Lexus GX is only 65k and comes with a big V6. I don’t know why anyone would want to buy a 4-cylinder Land Cruiser over a GX for similar money.