The 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser 250 is a retro-styled midsize SUV, and to anyone born before the year 2000, the concept will sound oddly familiar. That's because we've been here before. The Toyota FJ Cruiser made its debut at the 2005 North American International Auto Show, and it was a smash hit, for a while.
Retro was the leading design theme at the time, and as we now know, it only grew. The FJ was also based on the Toyota Land Cruiser Prado, or the previous-generation Lexus GX as we know it. The design was universally praised, and we later found out that it was an epic off-roader thanks to a body-on-frame design, class-leading approach and departure angles, a full-time 4WD system, and a Torsen center differential.
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