I drive a '16 200 series and other 200 owners in my upscale neighborhood don't usually wave back
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I grew up in a small town. Currently live in a small town. If you forget to wave at someone, you’re just rude 
. Heck, I wave at strangers just to see if they’ll wave back.
. Heck, I wave at strangers just to see if they’ll wave back.
When I was about nine years old, my grandpa taught me to drive in a 1940s GMC pick up in the middle of a pasture in rural North Dakota. After I got the truck to move forward and drive around in a couple circles in the pasture, he had me pull onto a dirt road. As I was driving down the dirt road we met an oncoming vehicle. With my hands at 10 and 2, my grandpa told me to raise my right index finger and wave at the oncoming driver. That’s just what you do in rural North Dakota.
200 tech is the bees knees. 
Never understood the Jeep or motorcycle wave, and I’ve yet to see an LC wave in Richmond. Now, when I’m driving my ‘97 7.3 350 and I see an on-coming 4x4 of any kind on a back road you’re darn well sure there is wave of some kind.
Rural Texas as well. That's a great memory.
Grandpa also taught me the proper use of my middle finger.200 tech is the bees knees.
Totally joking. Your point is taken. This thread just triggered a fond memory of mine.
Nice. Change 9 to 12, 1940s GMC to 1969 Ford Ranchero (3 on the tree), and North Dakota to Alabama and I could have written the same post. I drove a 200 series for 4 years in Riyadh where they are as ubiquitous as rain is rare. Seriously though, a 200 series looks like so many other SUVs and people just aren't generally into cars these days. I would wager than 50%+ of the Lexus 570 owners have no idea they are driving a Land Cruiser.
@RustySeattleCruiser if you picked the cruiser up from Lake City Toyota and live in the area, maybe I'll see you around! I wave at cruisers too.
In my 20's I started riding street bikes, Kawasaki and Hondas. I would catch crap from Harley owners everywhere we stopped. I wasn't the smartest back then, so I'd remind them that a good portion of their parts were not made in the US, and their tires were definitely not US made, how could they live with themselves? And after that had their attention, I'd ask them if they started out riding a Harley as a young child....... my friends were heading the other direction by this time, but I usually got a laugh out of the Harley guys girlfriends.
Flash forward about 10 years and I started buying Ducati's - ALL the Harley guys started waving, giving me the thumbs up and wanting me to ride along?????
When I'm in my 40, lots of waves and thumbs up, hardly any in my 200 and it's mildly built. I did have a guy in a new heritage 4Runner jockey on the freeway to tell me he hopes to graduate to a 200 like mine eventually. My wife and boys thought that was hilarious, and I asked my wife when was the last time someone said that about her Rubicon? (there's a gazillion jeeps, why are you waving at each other???? to me it would be like Prius owners waving at each other, just really weird)
I wave at Toyota LC owners if I notice them, it's a pretty great community we have!
Flash forward about 10 years and I started buying Ducati's - ALL the Harley guys started waving, giving me the thumbs up and wanting me to ride along?????
When I'm in my 40, lots of waves and thumbs up, hardly any in my 200 and it's mildly built. I did have a guy in a new heritage 4Runner jockey on the freeway to tell me he hopes to graduate to a 200 like mine eventually. My wife and boys thought that was hilarious, and I asked my wife when was the last time someone said that about her Rubicon? (there's a gazillion jeeps, why are you waving at each other???? to me it would be like Prius owners waving at each other, just really weird)
I wave at Toyota LC owners if I notice them, it's a pretty great community we have!
I see lots of 200s. I never get waves from stock 200s. We actually joke about how oblivious most 200 drivers seem to be about other Land Cruisers, or even the fact they are driving one themselves (big Highlander XL vibes). Driving my white FJ62 or modded white 200, I will pull up at a light next to a white 200 and not even get a glance. It's pretty funny. Modified Cruisers almost always wave back though.
OP, I thought this was a joke or satire at first haha. I don't get many waves in the 200 either, outside of maybe 5-10% of all 200 owners, most don't care and see it as a meat hauler, nothing more. Maybe in time this will change as the vehicle ages and becomes more common with those modifying them.
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Same here in Texas and the motorcycle low arm wave is definitely still alive and well. I've never found there to be a snobbery to the type of bike you're on either, most riders acknowledge one another.
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Same here in Texas and the motorcycle low arm wave is definitely still alive and well. I've never found there to be a snobbery to the type of bike you're on either, most riders acknowledge one another.
I typically see 5-10 200’s per day on a single road in Houston, to and from the office, never gotten a wave. They’re 90% driven by Mom’s, except for the 5 or so HE’s I see regularly, those all look like 30-40 something finance bros and I don’t wave back either 
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I've been fighting the urge to wave at all other LCs since we scooped up our '17 two years ago (based on the worry it'll be perceived as "jeep" thing coming from an actual vehicle).
I'll start waving at any & everyone in the area and see how the stats line up.
I'll start waving at any & everyone in the area and see how the stats line up.
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Sad to hear. Here in Bavaria every LC owner waves back. No matter if its an 80, 100, 200 or some 70 series.
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In my city I can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a LC or variant, but probably 80% of 200s I see are bone stock. Modified/lightly modified 200 drivers don’t often wave, but do seem to acknowledge each other somehow. On my morning commute I sometimes ended up driving alongside a guy in a black 200 with an ARB bumper (if I remember right) but never really interacted until he pulled up to my campsite at Cruise Moab to check if I was the same one he had been seeing and we had a friendly chat.
Long story short, I think stock 200 owners aren’t likely to be interested in waving or nerding out about tech stuff. Modified 200s may or may not wave, but they probably see you and acknowledge you.
Long story short, I think stock 200 owners aren’t likely to be interested in waving or nerding out about tech stuff. Modified 200s may or may not wave, but they probably see you and acknowledge you.