Toyota Land Cruiser Mini: everything you need to know 

Toyota Japan could very effectively be building an cheap Land Cruiser Mini 4 wheel power to focal point on the likes of the Suzuki Jimny limited off-avenue SUV, if reports are dazzling.

Per news from Eastern media outlet Easiest Automobile Web, a limited 4 wheel power with very same styling to the incoming Toyota Land Cruiser Prado could very effectively be published next year with hybrid or pure electric energy.

Nevertheless, it’s now not the principle time we’ve heard rumours of a limited Land Cruiser-model automobile, with old reports indicating it will costs as little as $42,000.

A Toyota Compact Cruiser EV Principle used to be published in 2021 with a host of styling affect from the likes of the past FJ Cruiser (itself a homage to ’Cruisers of old) and the contemporary Toyota Land Cruiser 300 Series. Invent cues can moreover be seen within the 2024 Prado 250 Series.

Earlier this year when Toyota published the contemporary Prado, a silhouette of what regarded as if it’d be the aforementioned idea, per chance in a more manufacturing-prepared invent.

Update: November 2023

The FJ Cruiser title isn’t tiresome after all.

Toyota has formally filed for the trademark title ‘Land Cruiser FJ’ in Japan which could very presumably find yourself because the respectable title of the so-known as Land Cruiser Mini.

The title Fj Cruiser used to be last conventional for the retro-styled Prado-primarily based entirely FJ Cruiser that used to be produced between 2006 and 2022, and sold in Australia between 2011 and 2017.

The FJ title is iconic within Toyota circles, and originated with the J40 Land Cruiser that used to be first created from 1960 till 2001.

In response to the fourth-skills Prado chassis, the model used to be effectively regarded for its off-avenue prowess and indestructible nature.

Nevertheless could the FJ title form its formula to a rugged but limited-sized future Land Cruiser? A few names had been floating spherical for the Suzuki Jimny competitor, equivalent to Rankle, Compact Cruiser or merely the Mini – none had been locked in formally excellent yet, even when.

Request to listen to more about the Land Cruiser Mini at the starting of 2024, as Toyota rolls out more future merchandise, both electric and combustion.

What’s going to lie under the Toyota Land Cruiser Mini?

Experiences from in some other country repeat that the compact Land Cruiser could within the muse be hybrid powered, with a 1.5-litre turbocharged engine mated to an electric motor.

Nevertheless, it’s more likely that the Toyota Corolla Pass’ 1.8-litre naturally aspirated or hybrid powertrains could very effectively be conventional as a change. The RAV4 midsize SUV’s engines could moreover be a consideration, with both 2.0-litre naturally-aspirated or 2.5-litre petrol hybrid engines on hand.

It’s unclear excellent yet what platform the Land Cruiser Mini will skedaddle upon, nevertheless reports from Easiest Automobile Web repeat that it on the total is a modified and shortened version of the TNGA-F frame platform that underpins the Land Cruiser 300 Series and even the Toyota Tundra and Tacoma devices.

Before all the pieces it used to be conception that the TNGA-C platform, chanced on under the likes of the Corolla, would be conventional because the unhealthy, even when that appears less likely now.

One other doable possibility is that the unnamed 4 wheel power would sit on an all-contemporary dedicated platform created as phase of Toyota 2026 platform plans.

Dimensions for a more cheap Land Cruiser Mini could sit spherical 4400mm lengthy, with a wheelbase of spherical 2600mm – very same to the contemporary Toyota Corolla Pass, nevertheless reports have moreover indicated it will very effectively be reasonably a little taller than the aforementioned city-SUV.

What about a really-electric Mini Land Cruiser?

Easiest Automobile Web states that there is an spectacular possibility of a BEV (battery electric automobile) variant at a later stage within the manufacturing cycle, which could skedaddle on its hold platform.

Ideally, a dual-motor electric setup could ogle the Land Cruiser Mini turn out to be a Suzuki Jimny killer, at the very least in a straight line.

It’s which that you can ponder of we could ogle a seek of an off-avenue idea at the upcoming Tokyo motor uncover in Japan which is made up our minds to debut numerous upcoming devices for the Toyota stamp.

Easiest Automobile Web has stated that it believes the title of the mini Land Cruiser to be the Rankle Mini, which sounds reasonably perhaps now not for our market, nevertheless we could ogle the return of the FJ title to the model, or even the J20 title from the mid 1950s.

Earlier reports have moreover indicated that the mini Land Cruiser could very effectively be known as the Land Hopper.

Request more recordsdata to come to gentle early in 2024 along with additional bulletins about the contemporary Toyota Land Cruiser Prado.

What’s going to the Land Cruiser Mini compete against?

Sized noteworthy smaller than its bigger siblings, the Toyota Land Cruiser Mini will be positioned in a market nearly of its hold, nevertheless Toyota is probably going to have the contemporary Suzuki Jimny in its sights.

Little-sized off-roaders are standard within the neighborhood, with the Suzuki Jimny promoting a critical 4251 objects up to now in 2023, a little of higher than the 4118 objects sold by this time in 2022. A five-door Jimny is soon to be released within the neighborhood.

The massive majority of diversified gentle SUV cars within the section are largely city carvers and never dedicated to off-roading.

Toyota could very effectively be playing the clear game by entering a gorgeous untapped market right here and across the realm with a recent off-avenue focused limited SUV.

How Chasing Vehicles would make a Toyota Jimny beater

In the looks division, Toyota’s little one Cruiser in our eyes would be very same to the Compact Cruiser idea and would retain the side roof ladder make. A sensible suspension steal would support form the car succesful off the overwhelmed course.

Constructed on a recent electric platform with dual electric motors and spherical 180kW/350Nm, the little one Cruiser would skedaddle on limited 15-trip wheels, have corpulent off-avenue rubber and have a starting trace of spherical $45,000 sooner than on-avenue costs.

A trace of spherical four million yen, or AUD$42,000, has been previously rumoured by Easiest Automobile Web.

With these reasonably grunty electric motors and a kerb weight within the convey of 1.7-tonnes the little one Land Cruiser, would possibly want to have a towing skill of spherical two-tonnes, sufficient to pull a pretty sized camper trailer or boat.

We’d prefer to hunt a manufacturing version automobile in Australia by early 2025, or at the most modern 2026 to coincide with Toyota’s contemporary electric platform debut.