100 series USA version with cloth seats

[pagemaster]

Hey folks

I was just reading back in the old Edmunds.com road test files and I noticed that they mentioned that standard equipment for 1999 was cloth bucket seats, leather wrapped, front cup holders and front and rear heating....the leather package cost them $1850

Also..the third row seat was a option which also included power rear windows...

anyone ever seen one of these?

[rusty_tlc]

In my driveway this morning.
1998 though.

[Trunk Monkey]

I've never seen a 100 in person without leather and/or without the 3rd row.

[e9999]

as you can imagine, the LC was the flagship of Toy's line. And were ordered optioned accordingly by the dealers to try and maximize their profits. So, it may have been standard equipment in the books but may not have been readily available on the lots, of course.

[rusty_tlc]

Originally Posted by Trunk Monkey

I've never seen a 100 in person without leather and/or without the 3rd row.

Mines a little odd in that it has cloth seats with seat heaters. I've been told seat heaters only came with the leather interior.
I can say I love heated seats.

It was originaly sold in Texas so maybe they didn't like the leather in the hot climate? It also has no sunroof. The PO bought it off the lot as is.

My thought is it was a factory ordered rig that never got picked up for some reason.

[mobi-arc]

That's how I would have ordered it if I hadn't purchase a one year old truck....couldn't pass up the $20k disount verses preferencing a new vehicle.

Originally Posted by rusty_tlc

Mines a little odd in that it has cloth seats with seat heaters. I've been told seat heaters only came with the leather interior.
I can say I love heated seats.

It was originaly sold in Texas so maybe they didn't like the leather in the hot climate? It also has no sunroof. The PO bought it off the lot as is.

My thought is it was a factory ordered rig that never got picked up for some reason.

[ginericLC]

Ordered? Ha! Toyota sends them the way they want them to the dealers. The dealers can then do trades to get the one they want. This is on Land Cruisers only. I imagine the really big dealers might have some pull with Toyota or the distributors (like Gulf States) to get specific Cruisers. But the order doesn't go directly to Toyota.

[rusty_tlc]

Originally Posted by ginericLC

Ordered? Ha! Toyota sends them the way they want them to the dealers. The dealers can then do trades to get the one they want. This is on Land Cruisers only. I imagine the really big dealers might have some pull with Toyota or the distributors (like Gulf States) to get specific Cruisers. But the order doesn't go directly to Toyota.

It just seems odd that mine is equipped so differently than any other I have seen or heard of.

[Jim_Chow]

Originally Posted by ginericLC

Ordered? Ha! Toyota sends them the way they want them to the dealers. The dealers can then do trades to get the one they want. This is on Land Cruisers only. I imagine the really big dealers might have some pull with Toyota or the distributors (like Gulf States) to get specific Cruisers. But the order doesn't go directly to Toyota.

This is also my understanding on how it works now. Each year, there's a list of all the vehicles (grades/colors/option packages) to be shipped to the US. It could be that when the LC100 was just introduced in '98 (before the price topped $55-60K), there was high enough demand that Toyota sent some vehicles w/ cloth seats whereby most were retrofitted with leather at the port of entry during vehicle prep. At the port, there's other useless stuff installed by the dealer to jack up their profits, like rear spoiler, roof rails, etc.

[rusty_tlc]

Originally Posted by Jim_Chow

This is also my understanding on how it works now. Each year, there's a list of all the vehicles (grades/colors/option packages) to be shipped to the US. It could be that when the LC100 was just introduced in '98 (before the price topped $55-60K), there was high enough demand that Toyota sent some vehicles w/ cloth seats whereby most were retrofitted with leather at the port of entry during vehicle prep. At the port, there's other useless stuff installed by the dealer to jack up their profits, like rear spoiler, roof rails, etc.

That sounds plausible for the interior. How do you explain no sun roof? Although if that were a dealer installed option it would explain why so many of them leak.

[mobi-arc]

It's called "preferencing" and I ordered my '91 the way I wanted it with cloth, no third row, and no sunroof, and I preferenced a '98, but opted for discounted used truck instead. Most dealers don't like to do it because they don't want to get stuck with semi-custom configured truck but there it that option.

[Morty]

Somewhere around my messy office I have an original 1999 Landcruiser brocure that shows cloth upholstery, third row seats, and sunroof as options.

I have the window sticker from my 98 and it shows all of those as options as well, with individual pricing.