"BJ" (benjamin-bignell)
09/04/2013 at 12:32 • Filed to: offroad, fj cruiser
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"BJ" (benjamin-bignell)
09/04/2013 at 12:32 • Filed to: offroad, fj cruiser | 0
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One final set of pictures to finish my off-road series. Let's start off a bit of winter.
Followed by this handsome green machine:
And finally, playing in the sandbox:
HammerheadFistpunch
> BJ
09/04/2013 at 12:35 |
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The FJ would be a lot cooler if it wasn't just an overstyled SWB 4runner. I really wish they had tried harder to...um, tried less hard to style it.
davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> BJ
09/04/2013 at 12:38 |
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All for the low, low price of $192,000 (in St. Kitts).
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BJ
> davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
09/04/2013 at 12:42 |
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Hmm, that seems awful expensive. It's not like it's a remote island with a low population and few roads...
Charley V
> HammerheadFistpunch
09/04/2013 at 12:57 |
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I wish it didn't have a tiny useless windshield that is a football field away from me. Honestly, its like they combined the ergonomics of an H3 and a New Beetle. All for the sake of what? A bunch of off-roady plastic tacked onto a glorified Camry? Toyota, listen up, you already make an incredibly capable off-roader. Just put the money you spent on developing FJ Cruiser into lobbying congress to make the real Land Cruiser legal again. I will buy two (even if it means I have to make one a camper) (which I will) (cuz I won't need/be able to afford a house).
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davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
> BJ
09/04/2013 at 13:03 |
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http://jalopnik.com/how-about-i-th…
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HammerheadFistpunch
> Charley V
09/04/2013 at 13:09 |
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Man I love the 70 series...though to be fair, we already have a real land cruiser, its called...the land cruiser. its the same series 200 you can buy anywhere, just with more luxury trappings and an 25% import tax (which would also apply to the 70). As an 80 owner, I generally prefer a 70 to a 200, but the 200 is supposed to be very good at what its supposed to do, though most owners would never know. Don't be too hard on the FJ, its at least capable, if pointlessly styled and designed. I had a rant a while back about how Toyota should create a land cruiser brand, ah-la range rover, where they can shift a few of their products into one category and stop spreading them out like Disney world attractions. the long and skinny of it is that a land cruiser brand would consist of:
1. A new fj (technically It should be a BJ) that is a true wrangler competitor (seriously, its never been a better time to be a wrangler in terms of sales...why not compete?) so, solid axles, module build, and rugged engineering.
2. a 70 series truck based on the above mentioned. (not a restyled tacoma)
3. The GX 460 should become a land cruiser again, as the Prado, or something less stupid sounding...though come to think of it, prado and prada are close enough sounding for it to work in this demographic
4. A sporty land cruiser that doesn't currently exist to compete with the RR sport (based on the highlander architecture?)
5. the 200 series as the top of the line, to replace both the land cruiser and LX 570, just offer two trim levels, a paired down LC 200 (with less luxury than the current land cruiser) and the Land cruiser LX with all the LX 570 trimmings.
thoughts?
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Charley V
> HammerheadFistpunch
09/04/2013 at 18:46 |
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I'd go for that. I have my doubts about the rest of the country considering the demise of other utilitarian models (Xterra for example) and compact pickups. I could sum it up like this: I just want a truck with cargo tiedowns on the outside of the bed and fewer doodads. A utility vehicle. And cheap.
lazy lazo
> BJ
09/27/2015 at 17:54 |
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it’s the most beautiful vehicule I have never seen !!! lazhar the lazy.