Toyota debuts the 2022 Land Cruiser, but it's not coming to Canada

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Sadly, our contact at Toyota Canada says it’s “safe to say” that the just-announced 2022 Land Cruiser LC300 will not be made available in Canada or the U.S., but will only go on sale in select markets like Russia and the Middle East. 

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The brand’s flagship SUV hasn’t been reinvented, but it has easily been improved with some nifty off-road-enabling technologies, a new platform, and a smaller but more powerful engine. 

The 2022 Land Cruiser will ride on the TNGA platform and house a twin-turbo 3.5L V6 in place of the greedy 5.7L V8 present in the LC200. Mated to a ten-speed automatic, the new engine makes 409 horsepower and 479 lb-ft of torque, which is a full 30 hp and 80 lb-ft more kick than the older, larger powerplant. It’s also more economical, though there will be an even more frugal 3.3-litre twin-turbo diesel model headed to select markets. 

Off-roaders will be pleased to know the SUV hasn’t been city-ified like so many others, either—it’s still four-wheel drive and actually over 400 lbs lighter than the LC200. Ground clearance is set at 230 mm, the approach angle has been kept at 32 degrees, and the departure angle has the ability to reach 26.5 degrees, model depending. 

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Toyota has also fitted it with adaptive variable suspension, and – a new acronym for you to add to your automotive vernacular – an electronically controlled kinetic dynamic suspension stabilization (E-KDSS) system. Those features will work out-of-sight, beneath drivers and passengers as they bump along trails and roads, but the Multi-Terrain Monitor that provides a real-time camera view of the obstacles beneath the vehicle brings some of the off-road fun inside.

The LC300 will come in three trims: a ZX base model, VX-R that will be for the Middle East exclusively, and a GR Sport edition. 

Pricing and fuel economy have yet to be announced, but will likely follow shortly as the Land Cruiser is set to arrive – where it will arrive – later this year.