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LANDCRUISER 200 HAS INCREASED ACTIVE SAFETY

Toyota's new LandCruiser 200 has a comprehensive active safety package as standard equipment.

LandCruiser 200's active safety credentials begin with its new underpinnings, including torque-sensing full-time 4WD, a wider track, all-new coil-spring double-wishbone front suspension, Kinetic Dynamic Suspension System (KDSS)* and a new larger brake package.

In addition, LandCruiser 200 has a new brake control system, with All-Terrain ABS, Electronic Brakeforce Distribution (EBD) and Brake Assist (BA) as standard equipment.

The new LandCruiser also has an advanced package of Drive Assist Technology (DAT) features as standard equipment.

All LandCruiser 200 models have Vehicle Stability Control (VSC) and Active Traction Control as standard equipment.

LandCruiser's VSC now has the added feature of a VSC cut-off switch, which deactivates both the VSC and TRC to help the vehicle escape from mud, fresh snow or other slippery terrain.

The vehicle must be stationary before the VSC cut-off can be activated.

Active TRC provides high levels of grip in off-road driving, without the need to engage the centre differential lock.

All LandCruiser 200 models have Hill-start Assist Control to prevent the vehicle rolling downhill when taking off on a steep incline.

LandCruiser 200 petrol models have newly developed Toyota Crawl Control, to control vehicle speed in extreme 4WD conditions.

LandCruiser 200 diesel models have Downhill Assist Control (DAC) to maintain vehicle speed on steep off-road descents.

LandCruiser 200 VX and Sahara have the additional active safety feature of front foglamps.

Top-of-the-range Sahara has a reversing camera, audio controls on the steering wheel and a headlamp cleaning system.

LANDCRUISER 200 HAS INCREASED PASSIVE SAFETY

Toyota's new LandCruiser 200 has increased passive safety, with an all-new body and frame and up to 10 SRS airbags.

Pedestrian safety has also been significantly increased.

Toyota has paid particular attention to the crashworthiness of the frame and the interaction between the frame and upper body in absorbing collision impact.

LandCruiser 200 has an all-new frame and newly designed underbody reinforcement in the upper body.

They are designed to act as one unit to better absorb impact in a frontal collision, by bending the frame and axial compression of the underbody reinforcement.

The frame has been completely redesigned at the front, as a moment-reducing structure.

The front side rails have 30 per cent more horizontal offset and 40 per cent less vertical offset to increase impact absorption.

The frame's side rails have preset bending points between the number two and number three cross-members.

Impact energy support areas (large reinforced box sections) have been built into the side rails at the number three cross-member joint.

These box sections are pressed from high-tensile sheet steel and have reinforcements in all four corners and for the entire outboard plate.

The front frame structure has been designed to increase impact absorption while increasing ground clearance for the front differential and the power steering box.

Inside, the LandCruiser 200 has head impact-absorbing structures for the inner materials of the pillar garnishes and roof headlining.

Each pillar garnish has one-piece moulded ribs to act as energy-absorbing panels.

The roof headlining has energy-absorbing resin angle brackets.

Vehicles equipped with a rear cooler have an added energy-absorbing structure on the rear cooler duct.
 
TEN SRS AIRBAGS IN HIGH-GRADE LANDCRUISER 200

The new LandCruiser 200 Series has 10 SRS airbags on high-grade VX and Sahara models, thereby resetting passive safety benchmarks in the Large SUV segment.

All LandCruiser 200 models have two-stage front SRS airbags, front side airbags, full-length (three-row) side curtain-shield airbags and second-row seat outside seatbelt pretensioners.

The side curtain shield airbags have two inflator positions - above the B and C pillars.

VX and Sahara have the breakthrough additional feature of second-row seat side airbags.

The two high-grade models additionally have driver and front passenger SRS knee airbags.

The knee airbags also work together with the frontal airbags and pretensioning front seatbelts to achieve a better distribution of the loads imposed on the body by the safety restraint systems.

LANDCRUISER 200 RAISES BAR ON PEDESTRIAN SAFETY

New Toyota LandCruiser 200 has raised the bar on pedestrian safety in the Large SUV class.

The front of the vehicle has a package of pedestrian safety features designed to reduce the chance of injury to pedestrians in a collision.

This includes special attention to the design of the bonnet, front fenders and cowl panel.

The bonnet's central reinforcement structure has been designed with longitudinal ribs to maximise its ability to absorb impacts.

The front end of the bonnet has an energy-absorbing bead to ensure better absorption of impact with shorter pedestrians.

Energy-absorbing brackets have been installed between the apron and front fenders.

In addition, the glass support area of LandCruiser's cowl has been redesigned with an open cross-section to increase its ability to absorb impact energy.
 
COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE A LANDCRUISER HALLMARK

Toyota LandCruiser 200 has successfully combined legendary toughness with a high level of passenger comfort and equipment levels.

VX and Sahara both have leather trim as standard and full electric seat adjustment, while GXL is specified with cloth interior.

LandCruiser 200 retains its eight-seat capacity.

The second-row seat in VX and Sahara has a 40:20:40 split, while GXL is split 60:40.

Front seats feature a new framework which is based on the WIL (Whiplash Injury Lessening) concept that alleviates impact to the passengers' jaw area in the event of a rear-end collision.

Second row seats feature a one-touch tumble feature, where the seat cushion lock can be cancelled by folding the seatback forward and operating the recline lever.

The seat can then be stowed in the tumble-forward setting to increase carrying capacity.

A manual seat slide is available to all grades, allowing 105mm of adjustment.

There are plenty of storage locations in LandCruiser 200, including a push-open console cupholder, and a storage space for glasses located in the overhead console.

Utility space has been enhanced by incorporating bottle holders with pockets in the doors.

Sahara has a fully integrated touch-screen system that features a satellite navigation system with DVD mapping, and audio unit that has a six-in-dash CD/DVD player with MP3 capability, and a nine-speaker AM/FM audio unit with Bluetooth™ functionality.

The touch-screen also controls the five-zone climate-control air conditioning.

Sahara has a four-spoke leather and wood steering wheel with switches for audio, display, telephone and voice recognition functions.

VX has a four-spoke leather steering wheel with control for 'display' only.

FOUR-ZONE AIR CONDITIONING FOR SAHARA

LandCruiser 200 Sahara is equipped with four-zone climate-control air conditioning.

The four zones include separate climate zone controls for the driver and front passenger, as well as controls for both second- and third-row passengers.

For Sahara passengers in the second row, rear face vents are located in the centre console, and rear foot ducts under the front seats.

Additional vents are also located for side second-row passengers as well as feet and face vents for the side third-row passengers.

A large-capacity fixed compressor and twin-tube heat exchanger achieve excellent cooling performance.

This is in addition to the high-efficiency heat exchangers, including the 'Revolutionary Superslim' evaporator and sub-cool condenser.

An ejector-type cycle is adopted to ensure the optimal refrigeration performance of the cooler.

A pollen filter and a pollen removal mode have been adopted to ensure interior air quality.

All LandCruiser 200 models are equipped with the pollen filter as standard.

The GXL and VX models are equipped with dual-zone front climate control air conditioning, with a rear cooler.
 
SMART ENTRY AND SMART START ARE STANDARD EQUIPMENT

All LandCruiser 200 models have a Smart Entry and Start system that allows the driver to enter, exit and start the vehicle without using the ignition key or transmitter button.

The system detects the key when it is within proximity of the vehicle.

This feature is especially useful when carrying items to the vehicle.

All the driver needs is one hand free to touch the inside of the front door handle while having their keys in their pocket, and the door will open.

Alternatively, when the driver presses the lock switch on the front door handle, the vehicle is automatically locked.

The tailgate can be opened when the driver stands in front of it and presses the release button on the tailgate.

When inside LandCruiser 200, depressing the brake pedal and pressing the dashboard-mounted start button will enable the engine to be started as long as the vehicle is in either park mode or neutral and the key is within range.

Pressing the start button when the engine is on will turn the engine off.
 
Here is a good Australian brochure: https://www.toyota.com.au/tarago/~/...er-200/files/lc200-online-brochure-041017.pdf

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Cool videos:



Good thorough review:

 
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And then this one...just fun to watch. I may not agree all the time with this guy (though i agree more often than not with his opinions), but he is entertaining to watch:



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One more by Doug:

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Off-Roading an $85,000 Toyota Land Cruiser

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I thought his review was decent, but he lost all credibility with me when he rated the Range Rover as the top vehicle in the class.
 
Have Frame Will Travel
Proof that radical departures from proven concepts aren’t part of Toyota’s Land Cruiser ethos.

It should be noted that executive chief engineer Hideki Watanabe briefly considered shifting the Land Cruiser to a monocoque structure, but buyers wanted a full-function 4WD vehicle capable of tackling tough off-road trails, as well as towing heavy loads. Though possible to accomplish with a monocoque body shell, it would require reinforcements nearly identical in overall mass to the weight of a separate frame, and eliminate the chance to suppress road noise and vibration via the body mounts. In addition, a frame acts as a last line of defense between the surface and the underbody in tough off-road situations. Therefore, Watanabe chose to stick with proven body-on-frame construction. Accordingly, the Land Cruiser’s frame has fully boxed sections throughout, and the fifth and sixth (of eight) cross members are hydroformed with the thickness of cross member walls increased where they penetrate the side rails. Torsional and bending rigidity are up 40% and 20%, respectively, versus the outgoing model.

To keep things under control and protected, a double A-arm front suspension with coil-over dampers replaces the previous version’s torsion bar system. This places the spring/damper units inside the confines of the upper and lower arms, and wheel travel increases from 7.9-in. to 9.05-in. As before, the solid axle rear suspension has four links, coil springs, and a Panhard rod. However, rear travel has increased to 9.45-in. with a total vertical articulation of 27.6-in. With some segment competitors ditching solid axles in favor of an independent rear suspension, a design that allows the third row of seats to fold flat into the floor, the retention of a solid rear axle is something of a mystery—to everyone, that is, but Toshihiko Kanai, assistant chief engineer, Product Planning Div., Toyota Motor Corp. “Longevity under harsh conditions is very important to our customers,” he says, “so a live axle was the only solution.” To increase load space without having to resort to a removable rear seat, Toyota engineers split the third row down the middle so each half can fold up against an inner body side.

A new double A-arm front suspension, automatically decoupling anti-roll bars, and revised 4-link rear suspension give the Land Cruiser greater wheel articulation and better on-road ride and handling.

This same spirit is seen in the compromise between on-road ride and handling, and off-road capability. Toyota’s Kinetic Dynamic Suspension System (KDSS) decouples the larger anti-roll bars on rough terrain via hydraulic cylinders located on the same side of the vehicle and placed between the anti-roll bars and lower suspension mounts. An upper and lower flow path for the hydraulic fluid runs between them. On smooth roads, the pistons in the cylinders move in unison, pushing the hydraulic fluid toward the center of the vehicle. This keeps the links locked and the anti-roll bars fully engaged. In off-road situations, the front and rear wheels often move in opposite directions along their vertical axis, opening both flow paths. This lets the cylinders move the fluid fore and aft, and decouples the outer anti-roll bar link to increase suspension travel. An electrically triggered disconnect may be used on the Lexus version (LX570) of the Land Cruiser, but Kanai defends the mechanical system by saying, “Given this vehicle’s market and driving environments, we needed a system with the highest reliability possible that could be serviced easily in primitive settings, if necessary.”

Power for the 2008 Land Cruiser comes from the same 5.7-liter 3UR-FE V8 found in the Tundra pickup (381 hp @ 5,600 and 401 lb-ft @ 3,600), mated to its AB60F six-speed automatic transmission. The new full-time, electrically shifted JF2A transfer case uses a six-pinion planetary reduction gear, silent chain drive, houses a Torsen limited-slip differential, and splits torque in normal driving 41% front/59% rear. When the front wheels start to slip, this is shifted to a maximum ratio of 30% front/70% rear. If the rear wheels are the first to slip, the slip is adjusted to a maximum of 50% front/50% rear. Both the front and rear differentials are open designs with 8.7-in. and 9.5-in. ring gears, respectively. The front differential carrier and intermediate tube are made of aluminum—a double-row bearing is used for the front bearing—and both differentials use low viscosity oil.

Though approximately half of the 200 Series Land Cruiser’s five-year development program was devoted to testing in tough conditions on challenging terrain, it also included time to develop less prosaic items. These include power front windows with variable speed control that decelerate when nearing their full up or down position, a standard four-zone automatic climate control system with 28 total outlets and seven fan speeds, dash under-covers to keep interior noise levels low, and a large center console with an available cooler box to keep sandwiches and drinks cold. It’s about what you’d expect from an SUV as likely to be seen in the Outback—or the Middle East, its largest market—as at an Outback Steakhouse.
 
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