Thread: Toyota announced big Landcruiser spec change & price drops in USA

The way I see it @No.3 is that your producing this sample size of one horror story to advocate for bigger engines, whereas I’m looking at the info and asking myself who the hell drives over 100,000 km towing a 3-ton boat like that in New Zealand in such a short space of time? And why on earth would you try and do it with a Hilux? It just smells fishy to me. It’s such an extreme story that it has negligible relevance to 99.9% of 1GD-FTV powered vehicles on the roads around the world. You can carry on with the story for as long as you like but you will not convince me that 500Nm of torque is insufficient in a LV, or that a 4-cyl is excessively stressed, especially in an almost 10-yr old engine that has already racked up billions of km around the world in every environment imaginable. OK that’s all from me on this.