Toyota axes 70 Series Land Cruiser V8, last deliveries due in 2025

Toyota Australia currently announced that the everyday V8 variations of its prolonged-running 70 Sequence Land Cruiser are being phased out.

The importer is accepting “no extra orders,” says Toyota Australia Vice President Gross sales, Advertising and Franchise Operations, Sean Hanley. Orders for V8 70 Sequence internet now been paused for 2 years.

Final production for all variations of V8-powered single-cab and double-cab WorkMate and GX opt-ups, Wagon and ‘Troopy’ 70 Sequence automobiles will occur in September.

Customer deliveries of the above variations are anticipated by the atomize of this three hundred and sixty five days or Q1 2025.

Namely, V8 production of the GXL-grade seventy 9 Sequence pickup, in both single and double-cab physique kinds, will continue for a little time into 2025. Deliveries for these variants will finalise in the fourth quarter of 2025.

In accordance to Toyota Australia, Australians internet bought 346,742 examples of the 70 Sequence since its 1985 introduction, with “nearly half” of gross sales – specifically 171,100 units – powered by the 1VD-FTV 4.5-litre diesel V8 that became launched in 2007.

The 70 Sequence will continue to be offered with 1GD four-cylinder turbo-diesel for the foreseeable future in both present automated and newly launched five-tempo manual guises.

Many present 70 Sequence instruct holders keep to fail to be conscious V8

A variety of the present instruct holders who had been ready for years for shipping of their V8 Sequence are keep to miss out, because the latest instruct monetary institution for zigzag-eight 70 Sequence outstrips the latest and final allocation for Australia.

When requested by native media exactly how many instruct holders will fail to stable a V8 Land Cruiser, Handley spoke back that “plenty will miss out” without quoting any explicit numbers.

Toyota Australia has been “planning this [cessation of V8 70 Series] for a prolonged time,” says Hanley, with the resolution to “drawl down the curtain on the V8 … inevitable resulting from changing regulations and neighborhood expectations”.

Hanley says that the resolution to axe the V8 became no longer straight associated to the federal authorities’s latest New Vehicle Emissions Requirements mandates.

New excessive-torque five-tempo manual for four-cylinder 70 Sequence

The 70 Sequence is determined to continue gross sales in Australia, now with the addition of a five-tempo manual possibility.

The four-cylinder’s newly launched H153F manual transmission is essentially essentially based entirely off of the outgoing V8’s H150F unit albeit adaptive for use in the back of the 150kW 1GD four-cylinder engine, which gives 20Nm higher than the zigzag-eight.

Technical changes consist of shorter first-, 2d- and third-gear ratios besides a taller-ratio fifth gear to “purple meat up gasoline economic system” on the commence aspect road.

Varied changes consist of a triple-synchro mechanism for the fundamental gear and a revised take hang of flywheel.

Hanley forecast that this would presumably be “a little market for manual transmissions” in 70 Sequence transferring forward, with projections that patrons will continue to favour the automated replacement in the 70 Sequence vary.