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Title: LC 300
Post by: doc evil on June 17, 2021, 05:12:26 PM
been done to death, but this tickled my funny bone. Not keen on JC or his smarmieness, but I did LOL.........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaWmsWjco88 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaWmsWjco88)


Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: Bird on June 17, 2021, 05:40:01 PM
wonder if they will make an offroad version?
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: D4D on June 17, 2021, 06:05:03 PM
The ARB boys will be ROFL with that one. After all their stock price has almost tripled in the last year...
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: gronk on June 17, 2021, 06:09:37 PM
Same 4wd, just a few new panels and a new engine…….off-road will be the same…..

I should be able to afford a 2022 model……in 2039 !!
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: Hairs on June 17, 2021, 06:42:01 PM
Same 4wd, just a few new panels and a new engine…….off-road will be the same…..

I should be able to afford a 2022 model……in 2039 !!
I got a 91 1hdt GXL you can have for $30k.
Save ya self a Shiite load.
;)
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: GeoffA on June 17, 2021, 07:41:03 PM
wonder if they will make an offroad version?

 :cup: :cup:
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: chester ver2.0 on June 18, 2021, 09:54:47 AM
Maybe this will bring the prices of 200 series back to semi sensible levels
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: rossm on June 18, 2021, 10:32:45 AM
Maybe this will bring the prices of 200 series back to semi sensible levels

For a while a good used 100 series turbo diesel cost nearly as much as a 200. I’d expect the 200 series premium to last for a good time.
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: Bird on June 24, 2021, 10:22:45 PM
no wonder they are in short supply

https://www.drive.com.au/news/2022-toyota-landcruiser-300-series-police-cars-join-fleets/ (https://www.drive.com.au/news/2022-toyota-landcruiser-300-series-police-cars-join-fleets/)
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: NZMarkb on June 25, 2021, 04:14:18 AM
no wonder they are in short supply

https://www.drive.com.au/news/2022-toyota-landcruiser-300-series-police-cars-join-fleets/ (https://www.drive.com.au/news/2022-toyota-landcruiser-300-series-police-cars-join-fleets/)

Well that will mean there will be an endless supply of second hand parts available  :laugh: :laugh:
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: doc evil on June 25, 2021, 09:04:22 AM
absolutely love that approach angle............. ::)
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: gronk on June 25, 2021, 09:11:02 AM
absolutely love that approach angle............. ::)

no different to the 200 series.
Chop 1/2 the front bar off and whack on a bull bar , all good.
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: Bird on June 25, 2021, 10:44:16 AM
no different to the 200 series.
Chop 1/2 the front bar off and whack on a bull bar , all good.
thats before it goes over its axle weights :D
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: gronk on June 25, 2021, 01:33:25 PM
thats before it goes over its axle weights :D

Doesn’t worry me at all.

As I mentioned on some forum, I will be buying a 2022 model……………..around 2032..
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: Bird on June 25, 2021, 02:09:53 PM
Quote from: gronk
I will be buying a 2022 model……………..around 2032..
Bragging again mr Packer... or you win lotto ???
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: gronk on June 25, 2021, 07:15:58 PM
Bragging again mr Packer... or you win lotto ???

If I’m still alive, I might be able to afford a 10yr old 300 series… ;D
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: GeoffA on December 21, 2021, 07:18:55 AM
I found this interesting...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rncDQRINHL4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rncDQRINHL4)

 :cheers:

(...side note: this thread was started by doc evil only 6 months ago.... :'()
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: Steffo1 on December 21, 2021, 07:49:33 AM
I drove along side, in front of and behind a 300 recently, for several minutes and those lights and slab sided wheel arch/mud guards are going to be a love, hate issue. Personally, I'm in the latter group.

It makes the Nissan Y look like Jennifer Hawkins.
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: GeoffA on December 21, 2021, 07:59:46 AM
People didn't like the 100 Series styling when they were first out. Same with the 200. They got used to them....
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: D4D on December 21, 2021, 10:43:08 AM
It makes the Nissan Y look like Jennifer Hawkins.

 :worthles:
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: Bird on December 21, 2021, 10:46:10 AM
heres a pic of the 300
(https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/closed-cardboard-box-taped-up-isolated-white-background-36222444.jpg)
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: GGV8Cruza on December 21, 2021, 10:55:54 AM
I will show you one soon  ;D

GG
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: GeoffA on December 21, 2021, 11:18:40 AM
Raffle time??... :P ;D
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: Foo on December 21, 2021, 11:20:45 AM
heres a pic of the 300
(https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/closed-cardboard-box-taped-up-isolated-white-background-36222444.jpg)


Foo

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Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: plusnq on December 21, 2021, 11:28:42 AM
I found this interesting...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rncDQRINHL4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rncDQRINHL4)

 :cheers:

(...side note: this thread was started by doc evil only 6 months ago.... :'()

It was quite interesting. Now the new IKEA version from those guys.  ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: Steffo1 on December 21, 2021, 01:36:30 PM
People didn't like the 100 Series styling when they were first out. Same with the 200. They got used to them....

The 100 isn't too bad. The 200 I still don't like.
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: KeithB on December 21, 2021, 02:28:07 PM
I think a lot of 200 Series owners will pay the extra dough just to have a handbrake that works.
It looks like a lovely and very capable vehicle. It's just a shame they could not have given it a 4,000kg GVM, with maybe 2,500kg on the rear axle - at least as a factory option.

The current aftermarket GVM upgrades for LC200s are a joke because they leave the rear axle 1,900kg maximum loading unchanged. So you can be under GVM and still be about 300kg overloaded on the rear axle when towing with some gear on board. That's after spending $5K.

Much of the aftermarket crap you can bolt on puts most of its weight on the rear axle: long range tank, wheels on the back, drawers, roof loads and so on. That's not counting luggaege, fridges and beer.

Given that almost every large caravan rig you see on the road has an overloaded 200 Series on the front of it, Toyota Australia engineers should have addressed this rear axle issue with their Japanese colleagues. If you are towing a 3,000Kg plus caravan, that's a good reason not to buy a 300 Series.

Keith
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: KeithB on December 21, 2021, 03:29:31 PM
I just watched Cadogan's early video of him rubishing the 300 Series before he had ever seen it. I sent off this message and do not expect a reply.
Keith

"John I just re-watched your early report on the LC300 Series made before anyone in Australia, yourself included, had driven or even seen it.
The fact that you spent some four minutes of your twenty minute dissertation lamenting the presence of a CD player in the new model was evidence enough that you had very little constructive criticism to bring to your audience.
Too much time was also spent concocting your own imagined vision of a typical Landcruiser driver as a "bogan".  John you are going to have to come to terms with the fact that a lot of people like touring off the beaten track in caravans. I have just done that very same thing for this last year and met a lot of these "bogans", happy as larks with their 200 Series "Shitboxes".  We had successful business people, academics, technologists, senior executives and so on.  Almost all of them seem the have a better vocabulary and most probably a higher income than you do.
John, I honestly enjoy almost all of your videos and have learned a good deal from many of them. But there are occasions when the deep ocean sewage outfall at Malabar off the coast of Sydney spills considerably less Shit than you do."
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: plusnq on December 21, 2021, 03:46:27 PM
I just watched Cadogan's early video of him rubishing the 300 Series before he had ever seen it. I sent off this message and do not expect a reply.
Keith

"John I just re-watched your early report on the LC300 Series made before anyone in Australia, yourself included, had driven or even seen it.
The fact that you spent some four minutes of your twenty minute dissertation lamenting the presence of a CD player in the new model was evidence enough that you had very little constructive criticism to bring to your audience.
Too much time was also spent concocting your own imagined vision of a typical Landcruiser driver as a "bogan".  John you are going to have to come to terms with the fact that a lot of people like touring off the beaten track in caravans. I have just done that very same thing for this last year and met a lot of these "bogans", happy as larks with their 200 Series "Shitboxes".  We had successful business people, academics, technologists, senior executives and so on.  Almost all of them seem the have a better vocabulary and most probably a higher income than you do.
John, I honestly enjoy almost all of your videos and have learned a good deal from many of them. But there are occasions when the deep ocean sewage outfall at Malabar off the coast of Sydney spills considerably less Shit than you do."


I hope he responds. This will be fun.
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: bmwfreak on December 21, 2021, 03:57:46 PM
I just watched Cadogan's early video of him rubishing the 300 Series before he had ever seen it. I sent off this message and do not expect a reply.
Keith

"bogans", happy as larks with their 200 Series "Shitboxes".  We had successful business people, academics, technologists, senior executives and so on.

Ahh yes, but were there any engineers amongst them. This may have had an impact on what he responds with, if he responds >:D >:D
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: KeithB on December 21, 2021, 05:50:51 PM
Ahh yes, but were there any engineers amongst them. This may have had an impact on what he responds with, if he responds >:D >:D

Yep I myself am a failed engineer and we met plenty of others (not failed) along the way. The really rich ones had large Bushtrackers towed by Silverados. The rest of us slummed in 200s.
Keith
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: Bird on December 21, 2021, 06:56:39 PM
I think a lot of 200 Series owners will pay the extra dough just to have a handbrake that works
you'll be disappointed, yota has never had a handbrake tht works.. sorta like their version of an LSD
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: Hairs on December 21, 2021, 07:22:26 PM
you'll be disappointed, yota has never had a handbrake tht works.. sorta like their version of an LSD
My hand brake isn't the best.
But my LSD works fine.
80 series, 91, 497000km.
:)
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: Steffo1 on December 21, 2021, 08:20:17 PM
My '93 tilly has had a handbrake mod done by a local bloke and works well, but the LSD is nonexistent. Perhaps it was just a marketing ploy. ;D
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: MrCruza on December 21, 2021, 10:01:45 PM
LSD is so yesterday. It's Traction Control these days.
Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: wakychapmans on December 22, 2021, 07:50:28 AM
Given that almost every large caravan rig you see on the road has an overloaded 200 Series on the front of it, Toyota Australia engineers should have addressed this rear axle issue with their Japanese colleagues. If you are towing a 3,000Kg plus caravan, that's a good reason not to buy a 300 Series.

Keith

I think Toyota Australia are pinning their big van towing hopes on a RH drive Tundra...

Title: Re: LC 300
Post by: plusnq on December 22, 2021, 09:30:24 AM
I think Toyota Australia are pinning their big van towing hopes on a RH drive Tundra...

I hope so