Toyota will likely also assign this smaller Land Cruiser variant a different chassis code (maybe J150 or J200) and adapt a smaller-footprint version of the TNGA-F bones for its use. If you’re looking for an idea of where such a Land Cruiser Lite might fall in Toyota’s increasingly crowded body-on-frame lineup, figure on it landing above the Tacoma pickup and 4Runner SUV but below the three-row, full-size Sequoia.
It’s a pretty good guess the next-generation 4Runner, which is switching to the Taco’s TNGA-F architecture, will stay roughly the same size and drop its available third-row seat while more directly attacking adventure vehicles such as the four-door Jeep Wrangler and Ford Bronco (perhaps like a modern-day FJ Cruiser). This would open up just enough airspace for the Land Cruiser, which would be adapted from the global Toyota Prado—another soon-to-be-redesigned future TNGA-F adoptee—much like the 2024 Lexus GX. A vestigial third-row seat option is almost a given, along with the Prado’s stadium-style seating, where each successive row of seats sits slightly higher than those ahead.
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