Yes, not to mention the loss of the V8. And any vehicle you purchase to replace now will also be over-inflated in price. For me, I wouldn't worry so much about the money aspect, more-so on the reality of not being able to get back into such a nice LC if you even wanted to any time soon due to lack of availability and prices on ones that are for sale.
Regarding the V8... Prior to my land cruiser I had owned an F-150 with the 3.5L Ecoboost (from what I read, similar design to the incoming engine) and put over 100k miles on it. While yes, it did produce a lot of power, and was somewhat reliable (only issues I had was the turbos liked to burn up the electronic throttle body and the DI spark plugs would also cook quickly) I was still never satisfied with the power delivery and turbo lag, how many times I would need to punch it and even though it would only be 1 or 2 seconds I'd internally scream at the truck to "Let's Go already". Maybe Toyota has figured that out, who knows. In the back of my mind I was always wondering how that little motor is going to hold up with all that boosting done to it, especially towing heavy up mountain passes at 100k miles. Anyways, landed a nice deal on an LC and the rest is history.
No ones figured it out. They don't drive well and take a lot of fine tuning and complexity to get anything close to tolerable.
Cars have gotten progressively worse with turbos and 18 speed transmissions. They spend more time searching for power than actually moving only to save a minuscule amount of fuel. In comfort mode my LX spends more time shifting through 1st-3rd than actual time spent in those gears.
It's beyond dumb and saves almost zero fuel. Gears 1-2 serve no purpose other than minimally helping acceleration which no one cares about and the ECU wont even allow to engine to rev to save fuel so its useless as it is and gears 5,6,7 are not usable for towing. Gear 8 no one needs to be driving 100mph+ in this monstrosity nor is it legal anywhere. Whats going on? Give me a NA V8 with a properly geared 6 speed. The industry has been spinning its tires for a decade trying to eek out 1% efficiency gains to appease the governments and have destroyed the driving experience.
Isn't the new Toyota engine a hybrid? If so, that should resolve the turbo lag issue. But yeah, the "big" profit will be mostly or completely offset by the over-inflated price of what is bought to replace it. If the LC is a second vehicle and is just sold to make some money with no replacement in the immediate plans, that changes things a bit.
Exactly. The TTV6 Hybrid does fill the gap but its one step forward two steps back. More focus should have been put on the electric drive rather than adding turbos and even more gearing. Electric power needs to be embraced that is the only real advancement we have that does what its supposed to do simply and reliably without smoke and mirrors.