New Toyota Land Cruiser Teaser Confirms Relation with Lexus GX
Toyota has released new teaser photos showing the upcoming Land Cruiser SUV.The Land Cruiser is poised to return to the U.S. after a brief hiatus.We expected that it would share a lot with the 2024 Lexus GX, and these photos furthers that suspicion.
The much-anticipated return of the Toyota Land Cruiser to the U.S. is quickly coming into focus—sort of. While we still can’t see as much as we’d like in the latest teaser photos Toyota has provided of the new SUV, these new images do appear to confirm that the upcoming 4×4 will be a close sibling to the recently revealed 2024 Lexus GX.
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Viewed side by side, the two models have a nearly identical profile, with an upright windshield, a side window line that kicks up near the rear door, and a squared-off rearmost pillar. The Toyota’s front end will likely look quite different than the Lexus’s, as we previewed in our recent illustration of the new Land Cruiser that shows what this new model could look like.
The teasers show the new Land Cruiser alongside a classic FJ40 model, meaning Toyota is sure to play up the nameplate’s off-road history. A TRD Pro model is all but certain, likely with many of the same rugged styling tweaks and mechanical upgrades as the GX’s Overtrail trim level. The two are also expected to share powertrains, which means a 349-hp twin-turbo 3.4-liter V-6 as standard and an unspecified hybrid drivetrain coming later on.
Toyota says that the Land Cruiser is “on the horizon,” so we may see it in full by the end of this year. The Land Cruiser was previously discontinued in the U.S. after the 2021 model year, but it hasn’t taken long for Toyota to revive the nameplate on our shores.
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Despite being raised on a steady diet of base-model Hondas and Toyotas—or perhaps because of it—Joey Capparella nonetheless cultivated an obsession for the automotive industry throughout his childhood in Nashville, Tennessee. He found a way to write about cars for the school newspaper during his college years at Rice University, which eventually led him to move to Ann Arbor, Michigan, for his first professional auto-writing gig at Automobile Magazine. He has been part of the Car and Driver team since 2016 and now lives in New York City.
