2024 Toyota Land Cruiser Preview: Pricing, fuel economy and everything else we know

Excited for the all-new 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser? We are too. This is a profoundly different SUV than the last Land Cruiser, for better and for worse. It’s a lot cheaper, for one, but that’s because it’s a smaller, less sophisticated off-roader that seems less likely to survive 30 years of hard life somewhere in the Sahara. For suburban America, the new one should probably be A-OK. And it’s still a Toyota after all.

Specifically, it’s a Toyota built on the increasingly ubiquitous truck platform that also underpins the Tundra, Tacoma, Sequoia, upcoming 4Runner, Lexus LX and Lexus GX. The Land Cruiser is most similar to the GX, though, which you can definitely tell just by looking at them. The Land Cruiser obviously isn’t as lux inside, has five seats only and is exclusively offered with a turbocharged four-cylinder hybrid powertrain that gets laughably better fuel economy than the old Land Cruiser as well as the GX. It also lacks the GX’s trick KDSS automatically disconnecting stabilizer bars, but should still be ace off-road.

There are two variants available (plus a fancy-pants limited First Edition) that basically boil down to old-school off-roader (the Land Cruiser 1958) and new-school luxury-tinged off-roader (literally just “Land Cruiser”). They also have different styling, especially in regards to their headlights. Different strokes, different folks. See below for everything we know up to this point, and check back soon for a more complete take once we’ve tested the new 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser for the first time.

Although the general design is shared, the Land Cruiser 1958 and Land Cruiser (full stop) differ significantly in terms of technology and interior furnishings. Basically, think of the 1958 as the more back-to-basics, few-frills off-roader and the “Land Cruiser” (they really should’ve come up with an actual trim level name) as the luxury-lined successor to more recent vintages.

Besides the cloth versus leather seating, each has a different screen setup: an 8-inch touchscreen for the 1958 and a 12.3-inch one in the Land Cruiser. Both come with wireless Apple CarPlay and wireless Android Auto as standard, and Toyota says they can receive over-the-air