so it sells many well-thought-out
desirable practical models and the 2017
land cruiser is not one of them
I'll tell you I think that but first a
little perspective it's big but the land
cruiser is not the largest SUV from
Toyota that would be the sequoia which
similarly seats up to eight now exterior
size of this vehicle a little bit closer
to the Highlander and 4runner which also
seat seven or eight first i'll give you
a look at one of the strongest aspect of
land cruiser it comes with a trailer
hitch receiver that is standard as our
for and 17 wiring harness connectors
inconveniently located under the bumper
what that gives it is a maximum towing
capacity of 80 100 pounds which is
really good
now the cadillac escalade can get as
much as 200 pounds higher but the lexus
lx570 which is essentially the same
vehicle as this is 1100 pounds lower the
land cruiser is the most capable of all
of Toyotas trailering vehicle but once
you get past that the downside start
coming fast and furious one major
downside is how it drive it's very
tricky at a time when even pickup trucks
aren't that truckee now understand some
people like a truckie field but it
actually goes beyond that there's some
outright failing such as poor body
control especially when you hit the
brakes there's really bad nosedive it
makes you seem like a bad driver like
you're breaking late even when you're
not even a crawling speeds when you tap
the brakes when you're parking the nose
pitches down dramatically
now you don't need an adaptive
suspension to combat this kind of
behavior but it can't hurt and one is
not available even though this is a
luxury vehicle yes I said luxury even
though it's a toyota well what else
could explain its price tag 80 5870
dollars every time i say it i can't
believe it
there's Alexis version of this vehicle
that's just under five thousand dollars
more
and aside from being Alexis it has
suspension with adaptive shock absorbers
and height adjustable springs
I don't even know why we're having this
conversation
so how luxurious is this luxury vehicle
it's not bad
the seats are comfortable to standard
leather and the materials are nice but I
don't know if their luxurious the
invitation metal is among the more
convincing versions I've seen but it's
not genuine
same thing with the wood trip the
dashboard isn't wrapped in leather or
even vinyl and the headliner material is
not woven the lexus LX is definitely
more luxurious the lecture 7 have the
Land Cruisers emphasis on off-roading
the land cruiser has standard skid plate
for the radiator the front suspension
the transfer case and the fuel tank and
as full-time four-wheel drive with a
transfer case with a low-range a locking
center differential there's terrain
select mode a crawl feature and off-road
turn assists and there's also a
360-degree camera system with a nice
acceptable button right here for when
you're nosing into a parking space or
when your off road
it gives you different views including
looking right down at your wheel now if
off-roading in a big expensive luxury
vehicle sounds weird to you
for what it's worth the land rover range
rover of direct competitor on price does
the same thing but that one as a
variable hi suspension is now if you're
looking for maximum cargo volume the
land cruiser does have 10 cubic feet
more than the Range Rover but it has
less total volume than all the other
models i mentioned including the
forerunner and the highlander when their
seats are folded down and talk about
folding down seat
here's a weird part this is how the
third row seat fold down they actually
fold up and you see the second wrote the
film fold flat to the floor either they
tumbled forward
none of these seats are really removable
that's why you end up without very much
room for such a big SUV all of the
features in the land cruiser our
standard from the v8 engine with its
rock-bottom gas mileage to the back seat
entertainment system which has nice big
free
jeans and a couple of different inputs
down here and plays DVD discs but not
blu-rays I'm actually not sure what type
of shoppers going to buy a land cruiser
crossing almost eighty six thousand
dollars the highlander starts at roughly
31.5 thousand of the four runner at
35,000 and course just 5,000 more and
you have yourself a lexus LX now 2015 22
sold about 2,700 these things in 2016
it went up to about 3,700 through it i
would have expected it to go the other
way
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