It has been always known that Land Cruiser is a rough off road vehicle, but it beautifully evolved into a luxury vehicle while maintaining its place in the solid cars that you can always depend on no matter where you are. Whether in the deserts or mountains Land Cruiser was the key, now even if you are in the urban jungles or soccer fields, that’s your car!
The Land Cruiser still has ability to go virtually anywhere and its luxury status places it squarely into a small niche of vehicles that function as the arch-rivals for eco-friendly vehicles like the Toyota Prius. In looks, the Toyota Land Cruiser isn’t all that different from the far cheaper Sequoia or the Land Cruiser’s near-twin, the Lexus LX 570. Unlike the Range Rover, its shape is hardly iconic, and the base price is extraordinarily high.
With a hulking 5700-pound body, it has a 381-horsepower and V-8 cylinders. With a four-wheel drive with a locking differential that combines with rugged suspension design to provide hardcore off-road ability. It will both accelerate the 5700-pound Land Cruiser to highway speeds and beyond (though with a prodigious consumption of gasoline) and slip and slide over slick rocks far from any highway at all.
However, this off-road talent compromises its usefulness as an urban utility vehicle. Critics said that the steering is loose, the ride can be unsteady unless it’s fully loaded with up to eight passengers in which 3 of them ride in third row seats (that fold up to the sides of the cargo area) not into the floor like most new crossovers, because that’s where the rear axle is located.
The price of the Land Cruiser 2015 is around 190,000 Dhs in the United Arab Emirates though it isn’t a luxury icon like the Land Rover Range Rover, and it’s slightly more expensive than the more practical Toyota Sequoia for example. But still the Land Cruiser returns in 2015 with virtually every previous option now as a standard one. To go with its standard 10 airbags, CD player, and leather upholstery, the Land Cruiser now gets a power moonroof, heated front and rear seats, a rear-seat DVD entertainment system, push-button start; Bluetooth; a rearview camera and parking sensors; a navigation system; HD radio; and Entune, the Toyota connectivity offering that enables mobile apps for use with its audio system, whether it’s streaming Pandora audio or on-the-go Facebook updates all instructed by voice commands.
