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Just curious - Have you driven one? Either a legacy 70 (pre-07) and one post-07?As I’ve said previously on several occasions, I believe most of the love for the 70 Series here in the US is just because it is forbidden fruit. They simply aren’t that great. The NVH is poor. The interior is not very roomy. The seats aren’t very comfortable. The interior looks like a 1/2 ton pickup from around 1990.
Toyota increased the track width of the front axle to accommodate the V8 turbo diesel but didn’t widen the rear axle at the same time, so the front track width is wider than the rear track width. As a result, anytime you are on soft ground, like sand or snow, the rear tires slide into the wider track created by the front tire, causing the rear end to continually fishtail. There are two solutions to this. The cheap but crappy solution is to put different wheels on the rear with wider offset (which of course means you won’t have a spare that fits both front and rear properly). The better but very expensive solution is to entirely replace the rear axle with a wider aftermarket axle.
I suspect many people in the US who claim to want the 70 series would change their mind if they actually drove one. But it doesn’t matter because Toyota won’t sell it in the US.
I haven't.