I saw a late model 200 with a Dobinson's kit on 285/70/18's the other day in a parking garage with a posted max height of 7ft. I was in there on 33's and no lift and I felt like I had 2-2.5" of clearance at best so I am willing to bet that he was just barely squeaking under.
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I saw a late model 200 with a Dobinson's kit on 285/70/18's the other day in a parking garage with a posted max height of 7ft. I was in there on 33's and no lift and I felt like I had 2-2.5" of clearance at best so I am willing to bet that he was just barely squeaking under.
I am pretty certain that was the posted limit in this one and I've got a 2.5" lift with 35s. I hit the test bar upon first entering on the factory roof rack, but I was running late to a meeting I was in charge of and so I pushed through. Got lucky the rest of the time in there. haha
I just went out and measured. Stock height on 275/70/18's (33.2x10.8x18) measures out to 6'7.5".
prwillard2
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My 200 series isn't even lifted, just on 33's with a leveling kit. My roof rack hit the safety hangar at a parking garage here in San Diego.
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I got them powdercoated at my local Alloy Wheel Repair Specialists a little over 3 years ago. I went with the ‘Forged Charcoal’ gloss finish.
It looks like a great match for the Toyota grey trim pieces. Thanks for the reply.
Thank you all for sharing pictures of your rigs. I own an 80 and seeing your awesome rigs makes me think... Should I get rid of the 80 for a 200 
Figure out a way to have both. I would never sell an 80series if I owned it, but I’d definitely add a 200 if room allowed. If I had to only have one, it would have to be the 200 however. The added creature comforts are important for my family on road trips. Damn, good luck, so glad I’m not the one making the decisionThank you all for sharing pictures of your rigs. I own an 80 and seeing your awesome rigs makes me think... Should I get rid of the 80 for a 200
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I've got a 1 year old 200 series. I'm looking for an 80 to buy because I don't want to mess up my 200 offroad right now.Thank you all for sharing pictures of your rigs. I own an 80 and seeing your awesome rigs makes me think... Should I get rid of the 80 for a 200
Thank you all for sharing pictures of your rigs. I own an 80 and seeing your awesome rigs makes me think... Should I get rid of the 80 for a 200
Don't do it, lol.
prwillard2 said:I've got a 1 year old 200 series. I'm looking for an 80 to buy because I don't want to mess up my 200 offroad right now.
I'd be more worried about beating up the 80 unless it was already a "beater." I've owned my 80, "the clunker" for 8 years, which is a really long time for me, and I'm actually thankful that it has a rebuilt title, rust, dents, etc. because I felt free to use it as a truck and wheel it hard. When the engine blew at 340k, I bought another 80 in MUCH better condition and frankly have been afraid to use it for anything. Probably going to sell it and rebuild "the clunker" because what's the point of an 80 that you don't want to beat up?
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My 200 series is worth 80k. An 80 series, even in good condition, is worth 25k. I don't understand this analysis.
ninja edit analysis above. But yeah, my 200 isn't worth nearly that much, so I get it 
I had an 80, an extremely clean and rare Poverty Pack. They look cool as hell and having a straight axle up front and factory triple locked was awesome, but that's where it ended for me. Mine was too clean and straight to beat on it off-road not to mention that beyond city surface street speeds they make for an awful daily.
Like the others have already said, if you can afford to have both then I'd keep the 80, but the 200 gets the nod from me over the 80 any day of the week if you can only have one.
Like the others have already said, if you can afford to have both then I'd keep the 80, but the 200 gets the nod from me over the 80 any day of the week if you can only have one.
I sold my triple factory locked white 80 that was all setup for my white 100. I even used my lockers on the 80 and broke birfs. Even doing that, I still appreciated the new updates made to the 100, including of course the added power of the 4.7 V8. Sure, the nostalgia wasn't there anymore and it was never as hardcore as my 80 even though I did many mods. BUT going to my 200, OH MY GOODNESS.Thank you all for sharing pictures of your rigs. I own an 80 and seeing your awesome rigs makes me think... Should I get rid of the 80 for a 200
Part of me wishes I could have just skipped the 100 all together. The 200 is an amazing vehicle and I no longer stress falling more deeply in love with my rig and spending unlimited amounts of money on said rig. Do I wish it was white and a 2016 still, yes. But, dang. I will survive with this being that last new LC imported to the US.
Don't get behind the wheel if a 200 isn't in your price range or can't be in your life right now.
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A couple of pics from a trip into CO recently.
I was messing around with the AI-powered DALL-E image generation tool, trying to coerce it into generating some LC200 "paintings". Results are not quite right, but representative of other series and models.
Here's what it created when I gave it the prompt "an oil painting of a land cruiser 200 on a boulder":
Here's for the same prompt, but appending "on a boulder-packed dirt trail" to the end of it:
Here's what it created when I gave it the prompt "an oil painting of a land cruiser 200 on a boulder":
Here's for the same prompt, but appending "on a boulder-packed dirt trail" to the end of it:
That is super interesting! It gathers its information from the internet via your search terms and then creates something?
Not quite. How it does it is even cooler and more mind-blowingly insane. It generates the images from scratch based on what it's previously learned from billions of other images.
A slightly deeper description: the application ("model") has been previously trained on ginormous sets of images that have been annotated with text labels that describe what is in them. A bunch of math is done during the prior training to "learn" what visual attributes correspond to the text. It's very abstract at this point - the learned stuff is stored as a mish-mash of overlapping/shared numbers. Those numbers can them be used (with a ton more math) to score how "correct" an image is to some arbitrary text that you give to it. That's not the crazy thing.
The crazy thing is that when DALL-E starts creating an image from text you give it, it begins with a random smattering of pixels - like random noise. The "score" for that random noise is pretty low (e.g., noise is nothing like "Land Cruiser 200 on a boulder"). It then adjusts the random noise in whatever way it can to increase its score. Eventually the image pixels settle into patterns/ groupings that score better, and you end up with the image it created.
You can be as descriptive and strange as you want in the text you give it, and it will try to create an image that it thinks matches the text. You can describe almost unlimited objects, locations, styles, etc. It will create something different each time, even if you give it the same text.
For example, here's what it generated when I give it the absurd prompt "A macro close-up of a land cruiser driving across a coin".
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I'd pay money to have this coin minted.
