Is Toyota building a mini Land Cruiser?

There has been rather lots of mutter surrounding the Land Cruiser nameplate currently, particularly with the announcement of the brand new-technology Toyota Land Cruiser Prado, but now there are rumours that an glorious smaller version of the neatly-known Land Cruiser may also very neatly be coming.

Toyota may also soon be focusing on the more inexpensive price four-wheel force market, constructing a competitor to rival the widespread and rather irregular Suzuki Jimny off-roader.

This is in a position to mean that the Land Cruiser lineup may also in the future comprise the rumoured new mannequin, Prado and 300 Series, along with the 70 Series Land Cruisers – that’s before you rely the more luxurious Lexus variations such because the GX and LX.

Toyota may also get total dominance in the 4wd wagon sector with this form of lineup.

Basically based completely on Easiest Automotive Net, the mini Land Cruiser may also very neatly be known as the Land Hopper, a title which has been now no longer too prolonged ago trademarked in Japan.

The auto’s size is estimated to be very linked to the recent Toyota Corolla Unfriendly little SUV, so round the ballpark of 4460mm prolonged automobile with a circa 2640mm wheelbase.

More electric Toyotas are enviornment to shut in the next couple of years, so we may also watch an EV or turbo-diesel mini Cruiser by the conclude of the last decade.

A brand new platform from Toyota is expected round 2026 that may also merely change the recent E-TNGA architecture that underpins the recent BZ4X midsize SUV, as neatly because the upcoming Subaru Solterra.

The mini Land Cruiser may also come sooner in preference to later

Even supposing it may most likely also start on a new platform, the mini Land Cruiser may also very neatly be coming as soon as 2024, per a separate document by Magazine X.

Being so soon, it’s attainable that the little-sized Land Cruiser may also very neatly be constructed as an different on the TNGA-Okay platform (Kluger, RAV4, Camry) to accommodate each and every hybrid-combustion and standard combustion powertrains.

We’ve viewed what may also very neatly be the mini Land Cruiser already

Insensible in 2021, Toyota launched an wide array of electric automobile concepts, one of which was as soon as a visual combine between the FJ Cruiser and the Land Cruiser automobile but some distance more the dimensions of a Suzuki Jimny.

This belief primitive a actually an identical entrance conclude secure to the freshly-launched Land Cruiser Prado, with rugged looks and, importantly, an off-avenue focal level.

A cold characteristic of the belief was as soon as the employ of a aspect-constructed-in ladder intention to attend with lifting things on and off the roof racks.

Sadly, more knowledge about battery size and electric motor outputs had been now no longer published at the time.

What may also energy the Mini Land Cruiser?

Even supposing the Thought Cruiser was as soon as an EV-only proposition, the prolonged trudge mini Land Cruiser may also potentially additionally be powered by a little displacement petrol engine, or a little turbo-diesel engine for bigger torque when off-roading.

Easiest Automotive Net reports that the micro four-wheel force may also employ the Corolla’s 1.8-litre engine, or potentially the 2.0- or 2.5-litre Toyota engines primitive in the RAV4.

If launched in Australia, on the different hand, it’s likely that Australian merchants would like a turbo-diesel engine, so in all likelihood the Hilux’s lesser known 2.4-litre turbo-diesel engine may be a approved match for our market.

The Hilux’s 2.8-litre turbo-diesel engine may also very neatly be on the playing cards additionally, but may also very neatly be restricted by enviornment obstacles in the engine bay.

Appealing Toyota’s ardour for its sequence-parallel hybrid intention, a variant with petrol or diesel energy mated to an electric motor and battery is on the total a probability, but it no doubt’s some distance too early to precisely mutter which system Toyota may also run with the automobile.

Easiest Automotive Net is predicting that the little-sized Land Cruiser may also fee as runt as four million yen (ADU$41,000) when it goes on sale, placing the automobile very extraordinary in Suzuki Jimny territory.