2022 Toyota LandCruiser GR Sport (inc. 0-100): Detailed 300 Series review

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00:00 G'day, I'm Paul.

00:01 So the Toyota Land Cruiser 300 Series has finally lobbed.

00:03 We reviewed the VX a little while back,

00:05 but it's time to review the one that I think

00:08 a lot of you guys have been asking about,

00:10 and it is the GR Sport.

00:11 It's probably the one that I'm most excited

00:13 about driving as well,

00:14 'cause it's got all of the off-road equipment

00:15 and it kind of looks pretty cool.

00:16 The GR Sport sits one down from the top specification

00:20 in Australia, and it's priced from just under $140,000.

00:23 That's too expensive.

00:24 The whole range kicks off at just under $90,000.

00:28 Now this competes with things like the Nissan Patrol,

00:30 that's one of its biggest arch nemesis,

00:32 nemesis, nemesis, nemesi,

00:35 the new Range Rover, and also the Land Rover Defender.

00:38 So there's a few of those meaty off-roaders

00:40 in this segment.

00:41 This one, of course, being just five seat only,

00:43 unlike the others, which are available in seven seats.

00:46 Today we're gonna do a detailed review of this car,

00:48 so if you do wanna skip ahead to other parts of the review,

00:50 you can use the time codes up on the screen there,

00:52 or if you're on YouTube,

00:53 scroll down and use the chapters below.

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00:59 we drive a car with white lettering.

01:00 Now, before we get stuck into design,

01:04 we've done this video a little bit differently.

01:05 We've broken out the off-road section.

01:07 We have a full off-road review of this.

01:09 So the link is in the description below.

01:11 Don't click on it just yet.

01:12 Wait till you watch the rest of this,

01:13 and then you can watch the off-road review.

01:14 So you can pick seven exterior colors with the GR Sport,

01:18 all but black and white, almost $700 extra.

01:22 Now the GR Sport looks very different

01:24 to the rest of the Land Cruiser range,

01:25 because you've got sportiness to it.

01:27 So they've gone with white lettering along the front here,

01:30 and then you have unpainted bumpers on the front and rear.

01:33 I did notice though,

01:34 I don't know if this build quality is amazing.

01:36 This bumper's kind of hanging off up the top here.

01:39 The paint's coming off it as well.

01:40 I don't know if that's just

01:41 'cause this is one of the media cars

01:42 that's been doing a lot of off-roading,

01:44 but it's only got like 2000 Ks on it.

01:46 But anyway, so in terms of the rest of the design,

01:48 outside of your white lettering,

01:49 you've got that piano black grill there,

01:51 radar just underneath the Toyota lettering

01:53 with a camera there for the 360 camera.

01:56 And then right down the bottom,

01:57 you've got this silver garnish highlight.

01:59 Up here, you've got a GR badge, Gazoo Racing.

02:02 This is what they've fitted to the Supra

02:03 and also the GR Yaris as well.

02:05 So you'll see that featured

02:06 on a whole lot more Toyotas moving forward.

02:08 They might even do a sportier version of this

02:10 with more power and torque,

02:11 but as it stands,

02:12 this has the same engine configuration

02:14 as the rest of the range.

02:15 Up here, you've got a set of LED headlights.

02:18 So it's a bi-LED headlight setup,

02:20 LED daytime running lights,

02:22 and also progressive indicators.

02:23 This is also kind of different here with the GR Sport.

02:26 You can see they've got these openings

02:27 down the bottom for cooling,

02:28 but then they're closed up at the top there.

02:30 Headlight washers, I've mentioned in our other off-road

02:32 videos that these are really useful

02:34 if you're doing a whole lot of off-roading,

02:35 especially in muddy and wet terrain.

02:37 You can get water come up above the headlight here

02:40 and cover that.

02:41 Once it dries, the headlights become ineffective.

02:43 So this blasts it all away

02:44 so you can actually see what you're doing.

02:45 One of the downsides to these unpainted bumpers

02:48 is you can see the scratch marks along here.

02:51 They're gonna be pretty obvious when you do off-roading

02:53 and you have any trees or brush

02:54 scrubbing up against the car.

02:56 That stuff is a little hard to get off

02:58 once it does scratch and mark.

03:00 Around the side here,

03:01 you've got a set of 18-inch alloy wheels

03:04 with all-terrain tires.

03:05 I do like the alloy wheel design.

03:06 The dark theme really suits

03:08 all of these black sections with GR Sport.

03:11 And then you've got these plastic wheel arch guards

03:13 along the top there.

03:14 So pretty nice setup and a whole lot of profile there as well

03:17 if you're gonna be doing some off-road driving.

03:19 Sidesteps, I think these could be perhaps a little better.

03:22 They're kind of a little bit cheap looking.

03:24 And I think that if you were to attack those with some rocks,

03:27 that's probably gonna bend pretty easy.

03:29 Love to see something like the Ford Ranger Raptor here

03:31 where it's got those sort of full metal sidesteps

03:33 that stick out and you can actually attack with rocks.

03:36 Piano black on that wing mirror, LED indicator,

03:39 and then beneath there, you've got a little camera as well.

03:41 Another GR logo.

03:42 Got these black roof rails, privacy glass,

03:45 black door handles, and then whip around to the rear.

03:48 You have a shark fin aerial hiding along the top there.

03:51 LED taillights, so this is all LED,

03:54 also progressive indicator there.

03:56 Another GR Sport badge.

03:58 Black Land Cruiser lettering,

04:00 more of that black garnish down the bottom there.

04:02 Some of you pointed out in our last video,

04:04 'cause I read through all of the comments

04:05 and found it interesting that a lot of people were upset

04:08 about the split tailgate disappearing.

04:09 So they've kind of made it look like it's still here

04:12 with that crease line,

04:13 but it's definitely just a single piece tailgate,

04:15 unfortunately.

04:16 Let me know what you reckon in the comment section below

04:17 about the GR specifically.

04:19 Do you think that this is the Land Cruiser to get,

04:22 or are you gonna go for the Sahara

04:23 because you wanna kick back in style?

04:26 So around the Land Cruiser, let's start off with the key.

04:28 So you've got lock, unlock, boot.

04:31 You've got a panic button, Toyota logo down the bottom,

04:34 little bit of garnish there as well.

04:36 Then on the back, you have a GR symbol.

04:38 Proximity sensing, so leave that in your pocket.

04:40 Once you're inside, you have this giant GR stop/start button

04:44 up the top there.

04:45 In terms of the design, I think it looks pretty good.

04:48 Like it's, I don't know,

04:49 it's a big departure from the old Land Cruiser,

04:51 and I guess that's probably not saying much

04:53 given it was like 11 years old or even older

04:56 in terms of that sort of fascia down the center there.

04:58 But I think this really modernizes Land Cruiser,

05:01 and it's a pretty good sort of setup there

05:02 with the big screen up the top there.

05:03 And you can see with the materials,

05:05 they've actually gone to a lot of effort here

05:06 to make this look and feel quite premium.

05:09 You've got this nice looking open-pore wood grain

05:11 along the center and the doors too.

05:13 And then over on the driver's side,

05:15 this is all nice and soft.

05:16 So when you're driving,

05:16 you can just relax your knee on there

05:18 without it getting fatigued.

05:19 GR Sport comes with pretty cool design elements on the seat.

05:22 So you've got GR stitched into the top there,

05:25 and then you have the red and black theme as well

05:27 with the red along the center there.

05:28 What about your touch points?

05:30 So kind of okay there,

05:31 a little firm and pretty soft on the door there.

05:34 How soft are they?

05:35 Well, we've got our durometer.

05:36 We've tested the main surfaces in this cabin.

05:38 If you want to see how this car compares to others

05:40 that we've tested before,

05:41 have a look at the link in the description.

05:43 Build quality.

05:44 Well, aside from the bumper bar

05:45 that was hanging off out the front there,

05:47 rest of this actually feels nice and solid.

05:50 And the door test.

05:51 (door clunking)

05:54 Sounds good to me.

05:56 Now let's talk about infotainment.

05:59 So it's all controlled on this screen up the top here.

06:01 There's also some shortcut buttons down the bottom.

06:04 They're nice and metallic, cold to the touch.

06:06 Up the top here, it is all a touch screens.

06:09 It's split into these two sections.

06:11 So you've got the left-hand side

06:12 and then the right-hand side,

06:13 and you can move them to the opposite sides if you want to.

06:17 It built into here, you have AM, FM, DAB plus digital radio.

06:22 And that's all powered through a 14 speaker

06:24 JBL branded sound system.

06:26 It's actually pretty decent sound system.

06:28 I'm quite impressed by it.

06:29 You do also have smartphone mirroring

06:31 in the form of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.

06:33 I'll show you what Apple CarPlay looks like.

06:35 So you can see here, it doesn't take up the full screen.

06:37 It's sort of just relegated to this area.

06:40 It seems like a tiny bit laggy there,

06:42 but for the most part, it's okay.

06:44 I just wish you could option,

06:46 the ability to make that bigger if you wanted to,

06:48 because I think this stuff is more important

06:50 and it's better to be displayed larger.

06:52 And this is what Android Auto looks like.

06:55 Same story again, not full screen

06:56 and ever so slightly laggy there as well.

07:00 Ahead of the driver is another digital display.

07:03 Over here, you've got just some basic stuff about the car,

07:06 but it's really useful when it comes to switching

07:09 between some of the safety features.

07:10 So you've got digital speedo,

07:12 you've got a lot of the safety systems, audio, navigation,

07:15 but then with the safety systems,

07:16 you can easily switch between those

07:18 and turn them off as required.

07:19 So good little screen, and it's also good for off-roading,

07:21 which you'll be able to see in our off-road review.

07:23 Now, safety, you have autonomous emergency braking

07:26 that works forwards and reverse

07:28 and detects pedestrians and cyclists.

07:30 You've got an auto-dimming rear vision mirror,

07:32 rear cross traffic alert.

07:34 You've also got a radar cruise control,

07:37 lane departure warning and a lane keeping assistant

07:39 in the form of a brake pulsing setup.

07:42 Blind spot monitoring built into that wing mirror.

07:44 And then in terms of parking,

07:45 you have both front and rear parking sensors

07:47 and a 360 camera.

07:49 Show you what that looks like.

07:50 It beeps if I put it into reverse.

07:51 I'm gonna start the car quickly.

07:54 So you've got a couple of different modes here

07:56 for the camera.

07:56 So I'll hit this button, that will bring up our first one.

07:59 So it's kind of like a showcase

08:01 of what's going on around the car,

08:03 particularly handy if you are off-road

08:04 or if you're parking near other objects.

08:06 You then have this top-down view of the car as well.

08:10 And then when you do pop it into reverse,

08:13 you get your full 360.

08:14 So the quality is actually not too bad.

08:16 So you can see Igor's car there.

08:18 And then as I move the steering wheel,

08:20 it adjusts all of those lines,

08:21 including the forward moving lines.

08:24 And you can also adjust those views as well.

08:26 There is also a multi-terrain monitor

08:28 for off-road driving as well.

08:30 Okay, quick question.

08:31 So if you're looking at buying one of these or a Patrol,

08:35 could you justify spending about $40,000 or more extra

08:39 for one of these over a Patrol?

08:41 I'm keen for your feedback.

08:42 Let me know down there.

08:43 If the sort of white times weren't an issue, let me know.

08:46 So let's talk about practicality

08:48 and we'll start with your connectivity.

08:50 So you have a 12-volt outlet down here.

08:52 You have a USB-C port, a USB-A port,

08:55 and that's all hidden behind this little sort of door there.

08:58 So when they're not in use, you can tuck that away.

09:00 You have a wireless phone charger.

09:02 Terms of storing your phone,

09:03 well, you can whack it down there on the wireless phone

09:05 charger, it fits a big phone inside its case,

09:08 which is good news, or you can pop your phone down here.

09:10 There's sort of no dramas there at all.

09:11 And in terms of your coffee,

09:13 they have catered for everyone here

09:14 because if you pop it in the left one,

09:15 it kind of disappears and it's a little hard to grab.

09:18 But in the right one,

09:19 you've actually got this adjustable height.

09:21 So you can pop that in.

09:22 And then once that's inside,

09:24 your coffee can sit in there and it is super easy to reach

09:27 out even if you have a small one, which is pretty cool.

09:29 Bottles, same story,

09:31 fits into both of these without any dramas.

09:33 You've got teeth on the side there.

09:35 Fits into the door too.

09:37 Let's try our big bottle.

09:39 Look at that, that fits in there.

09:42 Let's see if it fits inside the door.

09:44 No, that's a shame.

09:46 I would have thought that it'd fit in there nicely.

09:48 Anyway, on other storage, you have this center console.

09:52 Watch this.

09:53 So it opens that way and it opens that way as well.

09:55 Inside the center console, you have a fridge,

09:59 but when the fridge isn't in use,

10:01 it's like the most random, awkward little space

10:03 because it's quite sort of thin and then quite deep.

10:06 So, you know, it works okay, but yeah,

10:08 not the best sort of setup there in the world.

10:11 You have a glove box over here.

10:13 Not too bad.

10:14 It's dual tiered there,

10:15 but a lot of the space is taken up by the manual

10:17 once it's in there.

10:18 And finally, you have a sunglasses holder at the top.

10:21 Now, what about comfort?

10:22 So you have dual zone automatic climate control

10:24 up the front here.

10:25 You have heated and cooled seats.

10:27 You've got a heated steering wheel.

10:29 In addition to that, you've got your sunroof

10:31 up the top there.

10:32 The seats, so they are pretty comfy.

10:35 There's plenty of room on either side.

10:37 So if you like KFC as much as I do,

10:40 you're gonna find the seats pretty good.

10:42 Seats have electric adjustment for both the driver

10:44 and front passenger.

10:45 So you can go forwards, backwards,

10:47 backrest, forwards, backwards.

10:49 Put the seat up and down.

10:51 And then you also have bolster support as well.

10:54 So plenty of adjustments there.

10:55 Steering wheel is electrically adjustable

10:57 up, down, in and out.

10:59 And then on the reach test, all of this is fine,

11:01 but I did find this morning when I was driving here,

11:04 I was trying to change radio stations

11:05 and they just counterintuitively appear

11:08 in this giant list that you have to scroll through.

11:10 So it is just a little bit tedious having it up there

11:13 and having no controls down here to drive it.

11:15 Second row, the Land Cruiser.

11:17 So you've got a grab handle to climb on in or to hold on.

11:20 My wife's driving.

11:22 Knee room is reasonable.

11:24 Toe room is not great.

11:26 My sort of toes are wedged under there for some reason.

11:29 Headroom is pretty decent.

11:31 You have your air vents wedged in up the top here

11:34 with another grab handle up there if you need it.

11:36 Down at the bottom here,

11:37 you've got your third and fourth zone of climate

11:39 for the second row.

11:41 There's also heated and cooled seats

11:42 for the two outboard seats, which is pretty cool.

11:45 You have USB-C ports hidden under these little hidey holes,

11:49 a 12 volt outlet,

11:50 two map pockets in the back of the seats.

11:52 You've got a center armrest here that drops down

11:54 and under here you've got two cup holders.

11:56 They hold the bottle in pretty easily.

11:59 And then this also fits inside the door.

12:02 You've also got two ISOFIX points on the outboard seats

12:05 with three top tether points.

12:06 It is a little bit disappointing

12:08 that this second row doesn't slide forwards or backwards,

12:10 given this is only a five seater.

12:12 So it would be nice to have a little bit of extra room there.

12:14 You can recline this, but I don't know.

12:16 I just think they could have used this space

12:18 and engineered it just a little bit better.

12:20 Let's talk cargo space.

12:21 So because the GR Sport is just five seats,

12:24 means you get slightly more cargo space

12:26 than the seven seat models.

12:28 That means a little over 1100 litres available just here.

12:31 You get a little bit of underfloor storage.

12:34 Yeah, it's kind of weird.

12:34 I would have thought they'd be more

12:36 sort of underfloor storage,

12:37 given that you don't have the seven seats

12:39 in the way of things.

12:40 So yeah, I don't really know

12:41 where they make up for that room.

12:42 Beneath the car is where your spare tyre is,

12:44 but it is worth pointing out something

12:46 that one of our commenters actually mentioned.

12:47 The fuel filter is right next to the spare tyre.

12:50 So if you do want to fit a bigger spare tyre in there,

12:53 I don't know that it will actually fit

12:55 with the fuel filter in that position.

12:57 You've got hooks down the side here.

12:58 You have a power outlet, but 100 watt.

13:01 I mean, it's not really a great deal.

13:03 You can power with 100 watts.

13:04 So I think it's just as a novelty item.

13:07 And then you still have hangovers

13:08 from the seven seats set up

13:10 with like air vents and cup holders on the side.

13:12 So yeah, it's kind of odd

13:13 that they don't even give you the option

13:14 of putting seven seats in here.

13:16 But let's see what it looks like with our bags in.

13:18 So there's one in there.

13:20 Pop this one in as well.

13:21 So as you can see, stacks of room in there.

13:24 Then what you can also do to expand the space

13:26 is drop that second row.

13:28 So I'll just fold that out of the way

13:29 so you can see what it looks like.

13:31 Once that's out of the way,

13:32 you have about 2000 litres of cargo space available.

13:35 So we've hit the road in the Land Cruiser GR Sport.

13:40 Now, if you have seen our VX review,

13:43 it's all going to be very familiar,

13:45 but I'll run you through the engine specs anyway.

13:47 It's a 3.3 litre turbocharged V6 diesel now.

13:50 So they've dropped the V8, that's gone.

13:52 It is now a V6 across the range

13:54 and it produces 227 kilowatts of power

13:57 and 700 newton metres of torque.

14:00 So it's a nice and meaty, hearty engine,

14:03 reduces more power and torque

14:04 than the outgoing V8 as well.

14:06 So kind of just shows you how far we've come

14:08 in terms of engine technology.

14:10 That's all made it to a 10 speed automatic transmission.

14:13 I've got to tell you,

14:14 this engine and transmission combo is fantastic.

14:17 If you're worried about the V8 going

14:20 and not having enough punch to do stuff,

14:22 nothing to worry about.

14:23 Like if I just give this a little kick here,

14:26 it gives you a nice push in the back and gets you moving.

14:29 It is just a good package and it really suits this chassis.

14:32 And then in terms of the transmission itself,

14:34 it's actually nice and sharp and crisp.

14:36 Being a 10 speed auto,

14:38 I was a bit concerned about this

14:39 wanting to hunt a lot of the time,

14:40 but when you get stuck into it,

14:42 it drops back into the right gear.

14:43 There isn't a great deal of lag.

14:45 There is a little bit of lag,

14:45 but it's nothing sort of astronomical.

14:48 And then it can also push onto that torque band

14:50 to get it moving without having to dive back

14:52 through the gears as well.

14:53 So it's a really good setup.

14:54 No paddle shifters though.

14:55 You have to use just your gear lever

14:57 if you want to rifle back through the gears.

14:59 Toyota claims that the Land Cruiser

15:01 will consume 8.9 litres of fuel per 100 Ks.

15:04 We are currently sitting on 12.1.

15:08 So fairway off that.

15:09 And I remember when we drove the other car,

15:10 despite it being brand new,

15:12 it was still higher than the average claim as well.

15:14 And this car has been doing predominantly

15:16 highway driving as well.

15:18 So a little disappointing there in terms of fuel use.

15:20 Now, Toyota doesn't give us a zero to 100 time,

15:22 but we've put it up against our stopwatch

15:24 and this is how it went.

15:25 Let's talk about some of the specs.

15:36 Now, normally we would do an off-road review in this review,

15:40 but what we've decided to do is break out

15:42 the off-road review so you can get a far more detailed look

15:45 at each of the off-road features in this car,

15:46 because there are a lot of them.

15:47 So if you want to watch that, click up here,

15:49 but I'll give you just the basic overrun now.

15:51 So you have high and low range four-wheel drive.

15:54 This is a permanent four-wheel drive system.

15:56 So you don't have the ability to go into two-wheel drive mode.

15:58 You have a centre, front and rear differential lock.

16:01 In addition to that, you have crawl control

16:03 and also turn assist.

16:05 So they use variations of those diff locks

16:08 and braking inner wheels to actually tighten

16:11 the turning circle as you're going

16:12 through your off-road tracks.

16:14 Now, when it comes to ground clearance,

16:15 you have 235 mil, which is 10 mil more

16:17 than the previous generation Land Cruiser.

16:19 You've got a 32 degree approach angle,

16:21 which is the angle of the face you can approach

16:23 before you hit the front of the car,

16:24 a 25 degree departure angle,

16:27 and a 700 millimetre waiting depth.

16:29 And that's all in addition to a three and a half tonne

16:31 brake to towing capacity.

16:32 So it is pretty well featured there

16:34 in terms of off-road equipment.

16:36 And when we did test it off-road,

16:37 it was actually quite impressive how far it could go.

16:39 So if you are serious about your off-roading,

16:41 the GR Sport is the one that you wanna go for.

16:43 Let's talk about drive modes.

16:44 The key difference here with the GR Sport

16:47 to the VX that we drove is that this has a stack

16:50 of different suspension technology beneath the skin.

16:52 So this uses adaptive damping.

16:54 We've seen something similar in Prado,

16:56 the top spec of Prado, but the adaptive damping system

16:59 is certainly new to me in Land Cruiser.

17:01 And I think that what they've done here

17:03 is actually given this another character altogether.

17:06 So you've got your drive mode selector up the top here.

17:08 You can flick between Eco, Comfort, Normal, Sport, Sport Plus.

17:12 Hold on, we've got Sport S, and then Sport S Plus,

17:16 and then Custom.

17:17 So there's a whole bunch of drive modes there.

17:19 Eco is obviously the mode where they sort of

17:21 dull everything down to reduce the amount of fuel

17:24 that you're using.

17:24 Comfort really softens up the ride to the point

17:27 where this feels completely different

17:29 to the VX that we drove.

17:30 I'm genuinely surprised how they've been able

17:32 to make it feel so comfortable in comparison.

17:35 The VX wasn't terrible,

17:36 but this really smooths it out beautifully.

17:38 And even on these country sections of road

17:40 where we've got big potholes and then wash aways

17:43 on the side of the road,

17:44 it is just soaking everything up really nicely.

17:47 And then as you move through Normal, Sport, and Sport S Plus

17:52 it just gets a lot firmer.

17:53 And that's also linked to e-KDSS,

17:56 which is fitted standard to the GR Sport.

17:59 Instead of the old KDSS system,

18:01 this uses an entirely electric system,

18:03 and it has the front and rear sway bars

18:06 operate through that system.

18:07 And when you start entering a corner

18:09 and getting a bit of body roll,

18:10 it's able to firm up those sway bars to level out the body.

18:13 And it means that this in theory

18:14 should feel a whole lot sportier

18:16 when we go punt it through a couple of corners.

18:18 And then when you do drive off-road,

18:19 it disconnects those sway bars effectively

18:21 to give you a further wheel articulation,

18:24 because that's often the limitation of a sway bar

18:26 on these four-wheel drives.

18:27 Now let's talk steering.

18:29 So I'm a little bit disappointed

18:32 that Toyota's gone down the path of hydraulic steering.

18:34 It is very old technology,

18:36 and we've seen in many four-wheel drives now

18:38 that they have proven that E-PASS,

18:40 the electrically assisted steering systems,

18:42 work perfectly fine.

18:43 Toyota does something a little different here though.

18:45 So this is a hydraulic rack with an electric assistant.

18:49 I don't really know what that means.

18:50 It feels very hydraulic to me.

18:52 There's no real sort of electric assistance feeling to it,

18:56 but it allows them to run things

18:57 like the trace assistant for lane departure.

18:59 But it's one of those systems that just pulses the brakes.

19:01 It doesn't really sort of guide the car back into the lane,

19:04 and it can get really intrusive

19:05 while you're out on the open road.

19:06 Okay, so let's go into Sport S+.

19:10 We'll pop it through the corner here.

19:11 I'm keen to see how it feels with the KDSS system working.

19:16 Yeah, look, it's interesting.

19:18 I don't really notice that much of a difference.

19:21 There is still a fair bit of body roll

19:22 as you go through the corner.

19:23 I'm sure it is working in the background there,

19:25 but it's not quite as quick or sharp

19:27 as some of the vehicles we've seen

19:28 with 48-volt mild hybrid systems,

19:30 where they can actuate that lift far quicker,

19:33 and it means that it does level out the corner

19:36 a whole lot easier.

19:36 This probably takes a little longer

19:37 to respond to that input.

19:39 Hey, everyone, sorry to interrupt the video.

19:41 We just realized when we were reviewing the footage

19:43 that the GR Sport actually had quite a lot of body roll.

19:46 So what we did was we pulled footage from our VX review

19:49 and overlaid it, and realized that the GR Sport

19:52 is actually kind of worse than the VX

19:54 in terms of the way that it performs through a corner.

19:56 So the VX doesn't have any adaptive damping

19:59 or any of that KDSS technology.

20:02 So it does seem like the KDSS in the GR Sport

20:04 was perhaps faulty, or if it's meant to work that way,

20:07 I don't really understand what the purpose of it is,

20:09 because it seems to increase body roll

20:11 as opposed to decrease it.

20:13 So yeah, apologies for the interruption,

20:14 but we just thought we'd point that out.

20:16 In terms of road noise, pretty quiet place to be seated.

20:19 Even out on course-chip country roads, it's fairly quiet.

20:23 There is a little bit of wind noise,

20:24 but you don't get a huge amount of tire noise

20:26 intruding into the cabin.

20:27 Let's talk visibility.

20:28 So this is a big old rig,

20:30 but it's actually not too bad to see out of.

20:32 The bonnet has these giant divots in it

20:34 that I remember from the 200 Series,

20:36 like water would collect in the center there

20:38 if you had a parked on a slight incline

20:40 and it was frosty overnight.

20:41 But it does mean that you can see down the fronts of the car.

20:44 The wing mirrors are huge,

20:45 so you can clearly see down the side.

20:47 You've got a blind spot monitor built into those.

20:49 Visibility out the back is pretty good as well.

20:51 And in terms of your low-speed stuff,

20:53 you've got front and rear parking sensors,

20:55 and the steering is light enough for low-speed parking.

20:57 And then in addition to that,

20:58 you have an 11.8 meter turning circle.

21:01 So pretty big, but to be expected for a vehicle like this

21:03 that is a full-time four-wheel drive.

21:05 So the Toyota Land Cruiser.

21:08 Now, if you haven't seen our off-road review of this,

21:10 click up here to watch it now.

21:12 It's a pretty beastie thing with front and rear diff locks.

21:14 It'll virtually go anywhere.

21:16 And I think in essence,

21:17 that's what the GR Sport does above and beyond

21:20 other vehicles in the Land Cruiser range.

21:22 And I don't really understand why you can't option

21:24 some of the off-road equipment that this has

21:25 in other Land Cruiser models.

21:27 So from that point of view, this is incredibly capable.

21:30 One thing we did pick up though,

21:31 and we did notice this with the first Land Cruiser we drove,

21:34 we didn't really mention anything

21:35 'cause I assumed it was limited to the car that we drove.

21:37 It was brand new, still had only just been pre-delivered

21:40 and that kind of thing,

21:41 but it is a suspension or steering knock.

21:43 And this is what it sounds like.

21:44 (car engine roaring)

21:55 So I think it is something that is going to be common

21:58 across Land Cruisers.

21:59 We have sent it across to Toyota

22:00 and asked them to investigate.

22:01 When I do hear back from them,

22:03 I will update and pin a comment down below

22:05 so you can get a better idea of what it is.

22:06 But it is pretty disappointing

22:07 that in what is effectively a brand new car,

22:09 we're hearing this knocking sound across several vehicles.

22:12 If you put that stuff to one side,

22:14 the engine is sensational.

22:15 This is really nice to drive

22:17 with the adaptive suspension as well.

22:18 So as a cruiser, it does a really impressive job.

22:21 It is expensive though.

22:22 So I don't know whether you would pay,

22:24 what, $40,000 above a Nissan Patrol to get this.

22:27 But if you've got some money to burn,

22:28 it's definitely gonna put a smile on your face.

22:30 Now, let me know in the comment section below,

22:32 have you ordered a Land Cruiser?

22:34 I also wanna know which other Land Cruiser variants

22:36 you want us to review.

22:37 Do you want us to do a Sahara

22:38 or do you want us to go down to the bottom end of the range?

22:40 Let me know down there in the comment section.

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