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The official car of “it’s a land cruiser in other countries, so it’s a land cruiser here too”
I have one of these and that was my logic lol. I absolutely love it.
it's not just a land cruiser prado
it's a cooler land cruiser prado
rest of the prados gets 3.0 and 2.8 diesels, 2.7 gas and if you're fancy, 4.0 gas
My Tacoma has a 2.7. It’s a motor I guess
I've driven a Hilux with the 2.7, it's pretty slow but good enough when you rarely crack 40mph because your city has no highways.
It’s quite happy how it’s geared at 55mph. You have to push it to maintain 70
For years I thought this engine was complete dogshit, now I think it's utterly reliable dogshit.
Before the LX, this was Lexus' contribution to the Karenmobile market.
These are also riding high on the wave of Toyota 4x4 Overland Fetishism
I love it. These things don’t look like it but they’re built like tanks. I traded my clapped out 01’ 4Runner with a busted T-case straight across for an 09’ GX470 rebuilder about a year ago (valued at roughly $3k). The GX had been put through a fence in a blizzard and lived a hard life on a ranch. Clean title but needed a headlight, bumper, tires and a lot of overdue preventative maintenance. I did it all myself for about a grand and now a year later, I went and looked at a Tacoma and was offered $10k trade in for the GX thanks to its deceptively clean carfax. Apparently, clean 08-09 470s are suddenly worth their weight in gold here in the Rockies. Shits nuts.
I remember before I picked mine up, I looked on cars.com to study up and there were roughly 1,100 listed for sale. As of writing this, there are 261 listed and the cheapest 08-09 is this fella, that looks remarkably similar to mine when I bought it.
https://www.cars.com/vehicledetail/detail/811779321/overview?aff=share_other
$9k for what’s left of that GX is insane.
The official Lexus of rusted frames and coffee stained interior trims
The front with those headlights and grill looks disproportionate to the whole car, maybe I'm just used to LX/Land Cruiser
The official car of neutered masculinity, and the impotence that came with age and responsibility. When once you drove to MOAB in your rigged 4Runner, now you drive the even more surburbanized GX. Sure, you COULD do all the exact same things with this truck like with a 4Runner, but you have to pick up your sentient semen from Soccer practice , and talk your Karen of a wife down from going atomic at the cashier of an under-stocked JC Penney.
The official car of the Asian dad who chauffeurs his 2 kids around while working from home
The karin mobile
An Escalade would be more of a Karen-mobile than this
But they're so comfy and reliable. Why does "Karen" get to have all the fun?!
Cos Karen used to be hot and married up.
Lexus Land Cruiser Prado.