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They do not leak with scheduled maintanance
turbo8
Supporting Vendor
Even though I have to be careful with the GX, I think it's great.
I thought this article was pretty interesting:
‘We test it until it breaks’: developing the new Toyota Land Cruiser - https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/industry-news/toyota/land-cruiser-minoru-takayama/
"This new 250 Land Cruiser replaces the 150, and though the old car’s off-roading can’t be questioned, its on-road manners and interior left a lot to be desired. Toyota has addressed both of these and it’s a huge improvement; in many respects it seems to have been Defender-fied.
Takayama disagrees. ‘The previous model had been designed to be more like a Land Rover but, for this latest model, we tried to get back to the origins – to bring back some of the Land Cruiser-ness.’ "
‘We test it until it breaks’: developing the new Toyota Land Cruiser - https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/industry-news/toyota/land-cruiser-minoru-takayama/
"This new 250 Land Cruiser replaces the 150, and though the old car’s off-roading can’t be questioned, its on-road manners and interior left a lot to be desired. Toyota has addressed both of these and it’s a huge improvement; in many respects it seems to have been Defender-fied.
Takayama disagrees. ‘The previous model had been designed to be more like a Land Rover but, for this latest model, we tried to get back to the origins – to bring back some of the Land Cruiser-ness.’ "
New 2025 landed yesterday….
Dilspec
SILVER Star
Interesting, most 1958s I’ve seen came out of the Hino plant where as the Base & Premium have been coming out of the Tahara plant.
It’s manufactured at Hino Hamura in Tokyo.
Finally Toyota acknowledges what was known about the 250 program at inception in the automotive industry circles. Now the drop the part where the TNGA-F tested with a v8, and then was dropped from the program.I thought this article was pretty interesting:
‘We test it until it breaks’: developing the new Toyota Land Cruiser - https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/industry-news/toyota/land-cruiser-minoru-takayama/
"This new 250 Land Cruiser replaces the 150, and though the old car’s off-roading can’t be questioned, its on-road manners and interior left a lot to be desired. Toyota has addressed both of these and it’s a huge improvement; in many respects it seems to have been Defender-fied.
Takayama disagrees. ‘The previous model had been designed to be more like a Land Rover but, for this latest model, we tried to get back to the origins – to bring back some of the Land Cruiser-ness.’ "
TNGA-F: highly doubtful it was ever tested with a V8 because Toyota knew a V8 would never be tenable on the platform as a global vehicle. The whole point of the TNGA structural logic was long-term modularity with ever smaller power plants and ever more hybridized/electrified/“name your sauce” platforms.
Whole point of TNGA is a global, modular platform, and outside of the US Toyota wasn’t putting any V8s into anything moving forward. The V8 is dead for Toyota outside of exceptions. VDJ7x series trucks and those will be gone next year (though the 7x remains on its own framework, rightfully so; it’s an outliers mainly because it’s defined as a “commercial vehicle”).
TNGA is the bridge to future mobility for Toyota.
Always remember, Toyota is laying all of its eggs (regardless of the news or 5-15 year platforms) in 50 years projections for human mobility mainly because they have much better insight into the technology really driving mobility change: Global politics and global mineral resource extraction.
Hello from Las Vegas, NV 
There is so more to the TGNA-F development program then Toyota likes to disclose publicly.
A chat for another time perhaps
Whats the vspec?
This yours Onur?
joseywales
Renaissance Redneck
Looks fantastic. What have you done to it? Looks like a bit of lift and tires?
Stock suspension, just 275/70/18 BFG KO3s. I also removed the front air dams that hang down below the bumper.
joseywales
Renaissance Redneck
How are you liking the KO3s? They look much more highway oriented than the KO2s. I’m pretty sure BFG knows a fair bit more than me about tire design though, so figuring they must be as good as the 2s in the dirt?
