70 series "revised body work" (1 Viewer)

[Tennessee Jed]

You can't tell me this wouldn't fly off the showroom floor at $45K USD.

Doesn't the bumper hold the actual brake and turn signals? And the body position lights are blanked out because they're used with a different bumper configuration?

 

[janyyc]

You can't tell me this wouldn't fly off the showroom floor at $45K USD.

Doesn't the bumper hold the actual brake and turn signals? And the body position lights are blanked out because they're used with a different bumper configuration?

Only time could tell if indeed they would "fly off the showroom floor". If I could get a manual and basic spec 70-series in Canada I would possibly consider, but most other people would not go for that. And even then, I'm not sure if I'd buy it for my year-round car, considering how rust-prone they are...

 

[Rigster]

All those features make me cry (lane departure. auto-start/stop. collision alert, etc.). I think I speak for many on the forum when I say I love the 70-series for its simplicity.

What on earth is going on with those blanked out rear tail-lights?! Is there any logic for them?

I was just looking at the rear tail lights on this unit,
and I was thinking to myself, damn that's fugly!

I can live with the new 40 series hood/old style round headlights on the front, but not sure what they were thinking with the rear. It almost seems like it was an afterthought, or hurried decision.

 

[Brown98LC]

All those features make me cry (lane departure. auto-start/stop. collision alert, etc.). I think I speak for many on the forum when I say I love the 70-series for its simplicity.

What on earth is going on with those blanked out rear tail-lights?! Is there any logic for them?

As of MY2017, rear foglight became standard in the GCC so ever since then the top lights were only used for the foglight and reverse light and the tail lights moved to the bumper, another safety rule as well is that the tail lights need to be visible from a certain angle at all times if the spare is on the side.

So as an option from MY2024 for some models, they blanked out the top lights entirely and moved everything to the bumper.

Not all of them have the body colored cover...so it depends on how they are specced out.

Here is a MY2024 saudi spec that doesn't have the top tail body colored cover.

 

[Brown98LC]

All those features make me cry (lane departure. auto-start/stop. collision alert, etc.). I think I speak for many on the forum when I say I love the 70-series for its simplicity.

What on earth is going on with those blanked out rear tail-lights?! Is there any logic for them?

Honestly the way things are going, even in the Middle East, GCC countries the safety/eco laws are getting stricter, the days of the ultra bare bone vehicles are numbered over here.
I reckon in a few years all this stuff will be standard.

Luckily this stuff here is still optional....for now, but some stuff is becoming standard as the years go by...

Toyota won't be able to keep updating the 70x for ever.
Stricter laws in its strong markets like GCC/Australia will require them to eventually come up with a clean sheet redesign. My guess sometime in 10-15 years.

 

[Greek Cruiserhead]

Honestly the way things are going, even in the Middle East, GCC countries the safety/eco laws are getting stricter, the days of the ultra bare bone vehicles are numbered over here.
I reckon in a few years all this stuff will be standard.

Luckily this stuff here is still optional....for now, but some stuff is becoming standard as the years go by...

Toyota won't be able to keep updating the 70x for ever.
Stricter laws in its strong markets like GCC/Australia will require them to eventually come up with a clean sheet redesign. My guess sometime in 10-15 years.

So true Brown98LC (unfortunately)!

 

[Rigster]

Honestly the way things are going, even in the Middle East, GCC countries the safety/eco laws are getting stricter, the days of the ultra bare bone vehicles are numbered over here.
I reckon in a few years all this stuff will be standard.

Luckily this stuff here is still optional....for now, but some stuff is becoming standard as the years go by...

Toyota won't be able to keep updating the 70x for ever.
Stricter laws in its strong markets like GCC/Australia will require them to eventually come up with a clean sheet redesign. My guess sometime in 10-15 years.

Yeah, change is inevitable as they say. Just as long as they don't try to sell us on a "HD electric Land Cruiser" I am grudgingly ok with most changes... lol

 

[OGBeno]

The 70 series is done in 10 years or less In its current form.

 

[FJBen]

The 70 series is done in 10 years or less In its current form.

 

[Brown98LC]

I am very excited for the successor of the 70 series...when the time for it comes.

Nissan Y61 Patrol sadly is being discontinued after 2024 in the Middle East.
Not sure if this means it will be discontinued globally too but that is also a big loss.

 

[Tennessee Jed]

Buy parts. They can't take away what you already have.

Well, I take that back - yes they can. But they're less likely to.

 

[SNLC]

I don’t recall seeing it mentioned and I am guessing not but did they fix the track width on the new 70’s?

Cheers

 

[saltycoconuts]

I don’t recall seeing it mentioned and I am guessing not but did they fix the track width on the new 70’s?

Cheers

based on some photos I’ve seen around the web and social media. It didn’t look like it, rear axle still looks narrower than front

 

[OGBeno]

based on some photos I’ve seen around the web and social media. It didn’t look like it, rear axle still looks narrower than front

Correct. They have not modified the 2007 off set.

 

[Tennessee Jed]

Why are they not fixing it? I don't automatically assume it's laziness. Is there some other reason? It doesn't seem like a difficult fix, especially when you consider how much grief they've gotten for it.

 

[FJ73Texas]

Why are they not fixing it? I don't automatically assume it's laziness. Is there some other reason? It doesn't seem like a difficult fix, especially when you consider how much grief they've gotten for it.

My guess is:

1) There was really no change other than the look of the front end and engine/transmission choices along with some minor interior changes. The 70 series is a lone wolf in the world of TNGA.

2) This is probably the beginning of the end for the 70 series as we know it so there is not going to be any major redevelopment.

 

[janyyc]

In the 70-series book, an engineer responsible for the 2007 redesign said that the costs would have been very prohibitive.

 

[FJ73Texas]

In the 70-series book, an engineer responsible for the 2007 redesign said that the costs would have been very prohibitive.

I bet it would have happened if it was a major model change year. Like the old Sequoia not having a solid rear axle and the current one having one.

If the 70 series continues to live through another major model change in the future, I bet the frame will be closely related to the current Tundra/Sequoia.

 

[Hulsty]

Bundera

 

[Brown98LC]

The v8 diesel is still available in some gcc markets
Has only been discontinued in Saudi.