WEBVTT - Into the Toyota Land Cruiser 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:06.680 Hello, and welcome to Car and Drivers. Into Cars, a 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:09.760 podcast from iHeartMedia is Ruby Studio, brought to you by 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:12.480 eBay Motors. I'm Tony ki Roger, the editor in chief 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:14.720 of Car and Driver, and I'm joined by my co host, 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:17.960 former editor in chief and current Chief Brand and Content Officer, 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:20.920 Eddie Alterman, and together we're Into Cars. 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:25.439 Each episode of this podcast covers a new car that 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:27.639 we think is worthy of your attention. The cars we 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:31.080 select may feature a novel design, cutting edge engineering, or 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:34.320 something entirely new. 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Today 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.480 we'll be off roading and the reimagined Toyota Land Cruiser 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:58.720 to find out if it lives up to its legendary name. 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:02.160 After crawling over rocks and getting dirty, we'll dust ourselves 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:05.360 off and sit down with Marcus Umlau, Toyota's general manager 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:08.039 of truck strategy, to find out more about the engineering 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:09.800 and decisions behind the land Cruiser. 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:20.200 So here we have it, the long waited twenty twenty 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.520 four Toyota Land Cruiser. It's been on hiatus, this model 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:27.040 since twenty twenty one. It's changed a lot since then, 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:31.040 but a lot of the change is not dimensional. 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:31.720 It's visual. 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:34.200 No, it's still a big truck. It's the same wheelbase. 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:36.240 I think it's the same with it's within an inch 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:38.720 on height or two inches on height, and the overall 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:41.520 length is about the same, So it's the same size truck. 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:45.000 It's just not the same land cruiser though. It's not 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:47.800 the eighty seven thousand dollars lankerser. This one is a 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:50.200 lot less money. It starts in the mid fifties. The 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:52.400 one we have here, though, is a bit more expensive. 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:54.920 This is the first edition, yeah, fully loaded. 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:59.640 It's funny how it can present so differently than that 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:03.480 last slang cruiser that we had. What was the model 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:05.240 on that FJ FJ two. 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:07.880 Hundred two hundred, Yeah, FJ two hundred, the one in 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.799 the eighties I think was the sixty two, and then 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:13.040 the one in the nineties was the eight eighty, and 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:14.560 then we went to the one hundred, and then we 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:16.520 went to the two hundred, which was the last one. 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:17.400 And they were great. 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:21.920 They were really like the sort of Japanese rang drover 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:25.760 in a way. They were really deluxe, very very capable. 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:29.639 But I doubt anybody outside of Dubai used them off road. 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.080 Yeah, certainly not. The first owners use them off road. 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:34.400 The second owners are third owners because the things just 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:37.520 lasted forever too. There was a repair shop in my 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.440 old neighborhood in Los Angeles and the guy would drive 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:42.720 the cars around trying to see what was wrong with them, 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:44.800 and he drove a land Cruiser buy me once. I 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:46.880 said what's wrong with this? And he was like, absolutely not. 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:50.360 The last like three hundred thousand miles on it. They 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:52.239 don't break. And they were complicated too. 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:55.720 Yeah, I mean three locking diffs and a lot of electronics, 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:56.760 but bulletproof. 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:59.160 This is more of a return to basics. So it's 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.360 on the new Toyota truck platform, the TNNGA, and this 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:05.360 is the supposed two to fifty series. The Lexis lex 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:07.040 is on the three hundred series, which is over and 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:10.480 above this, but you get this for a lot less 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:11.320 money than the Lexus. 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:13.480 And there are four similar vehicles off that two to 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:17.040 fifty platform. You've got the Lexus g X five fifty, 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.920 which is a three row suv but very similar to this. 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:22.920 Then you have the land Cruiser, then you have the 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:26.240 fore Runner, and then you have the Tacoma. It looks 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:29.639 less like a luxury piece than the outgoing FJ two 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:30.680 hundred land Cruiser. 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:33.600 Yeah, that had sort of evolved into a luxury truck. 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:35.360 This is more of a retro feel to it. It 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:38.440 looks more like the land cruisers of the eighties of 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.280 the seventies. It has some of that feel. It even 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:42.880 has some of the feel of the FJ Cruiser, like 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:45.360 the headlights around on the first edition and on the 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:46.800 nineteen fifty eight model. 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:49.160 So it starts at the nineteen fifty eight model. That's 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:52.160 right then then, but this, you know, it's fully loaded, 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:54.880 but you get those retro round lights and I love 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:55.480 the look of it. 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:58.280 Yeah, for sure, it's real upright. I like my SUVs 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:01.119 to have upright windshields, lots of glass. If I'm buying 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:02.800 an suv, I want it to look like an suv. 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.640 But there's also a functional benefit to that. You can 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:07.480 see out the thing better. You can look down the 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:09.880 side of it when you are off roading. You can 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.360 see the raised capitals on the hood. You know where 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:15.600 the vehicle stops. So a lot of things that they did. 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.039 I think we're to make it a little bit trimmer 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:20.479 off road, although it still is wide. 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:23.080 It is it is, but yeah, like you said, you 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:24.960 can see the corners and there's a lot of glass 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:27.680 in there and it's all upright glass. Your view out 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:29.719 of it is wonderful and it's nice to see that. 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:33.240 The main difference between this and the GX five point 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:36.240 fifty is the engine. This right, this has the hybrid four, 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:39.320 the two point four liter making three. 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:42.400 Three twenty six six twenty six source part same as 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:44.160 the top engine that you can get in the Tacoma. 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.360 This one did sixty in our testing in seven point 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:50.920 seven seconds. The GX is over a second quicker. 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:52.160 Wow, and it's heavier. 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:54.080 Yeah, it's a significant difference. 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:57.640 That looks great, And I love this military khaki brown 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:00.240 with the contrasting gray roof. 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.039 Yeah, it's called trail dust is the color that we're 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:04.960 looking at. It's sort of khaki. It's got a little 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:07.440 tiny bit of olive in it. It's cool and it 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:09.400 sort of goes with the retro feel of it as well. 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:10.520 That's very cool. 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:14.799 Yeah, black eighteen inch wheels and thirty three inch tires, 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.440 so it looks capable, but it also looks a little bit. 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:19.960 Like a Nissanic Sterra. 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.400 Yeah, I mean Nissanic stairs are capable. But yeah, I 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:25.640 think part of it's that roof rack. That's true. That 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:27.479 is adding to it. It's a lot bigger than a 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:28.960 next Sterra though it is big. 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.919 Let's go around the back. You have the separate tailgate. 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.120 You can open the glass independently. 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:38.200 Oh yeah, that's a Toyota hallmark. And being able to 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.440 open that rear glass super cool. So even the badging 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:45.320 is retro. Instead of having the modern Toyota badge which 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:48.520 looks like a little cowboy hat stylized cowboy hat, Toyota 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:50.720 is written out and the font of land Cruiser is 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.559 the classic land Cruiser font and it's cool little touches 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:55.680 like that. And what is this sink toe? I think 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.520 it owes six thousand pounds, which is less than the 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:01.520 g X five point fifty, which has a more powerful powertrain. 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:05.080 One of those cool retro touches is the mudflaps that 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:06.600 have little straps holding them. 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:08.760 In places behind them. Are it's really cool. 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:23.280 Okay, let's hop in barrier and drive it. Oh, that's 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:24.840 not a real expensive sound. 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:26.120 That was a little tinny. 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:28.280 I mean you would get in the old f J 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:30.480 two hundred and it was just like a bank vault. 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:33.560 It was really nice horizontal elevator. 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.560 Yeah, and super super damped and you'd never hear that 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:38.480 vibration coming out the door panel. 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:42.479 No, that's real tinny. And I think the materials in 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:45.000 here are nice enough. But it's clearly that this has 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.200 been built to a lower price. 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:49.919 Yeah, for sure, and it's way more affordable, and the 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:53.239 old land Cruiser priced itself out of relevance. The Lex 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:57.000 sort of took over that buyer and Toyota to relaunch this. 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:58.960 They wanted to actually sell the land Cruise. 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:03.640 That one started at eighty seven grand and it was 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:06.400 on to reach for most people. But this one starts 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:09.479 at fifty seven grand, although the one we're sitting in 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:13.760 is seventy six thousand dollars. This first edition so not 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.120 such a huge delta from the old. 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:19.120 It's aimed right at the meat of the market, where 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:19.920 the Bronco. 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.840 Plays, where the Wrangler plays. 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:26.200 And interestingly, where are the Forerunners going to play? Yeah, yeah, 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:28.480 I think Jeep finally found the top of where you 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.080 can price a Jeep. I think the three ninety two 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.400 at over eighty thousand dollars, I think is pretty much 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:35.920 as expensive as as an off roader. 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:37.400 But have you driven that thing? 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:42.480 It's wild, it wild, It's really hilarious. This is you know, 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.080 it's a return to the roots, as you said, of 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.080 a more affordable land. 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:48.920 Cruiser, and I think they've positioned it smartly. 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:51.360 Yeah, it's more of a Toyota. The land Cruiser had 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.120 sort of turned into Alexis, and then they built Alexis 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:56.880 out of it, and then Lexus sort of was like, okay, 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:58.920 this is our vehicle now, and then the land Cruiser 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.280 reinvented itself in a way at fifty percent less money. 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:02.680 Basically. 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:06.120 Yeah, I think the interior is you know, it's a 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.960 good fifty thousand dollars interior. Some vinyl wrapping here. Yeah, 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:11.800 it looks kind of like leather. It feels a little 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.520 bit like leather. The gauges look great. 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.040 Yeah, it's fully modern in that way, but it's sort 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:20.080 of upright in old school Toyota at the same time too. 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:23.040 Yeah, it feels very utilitarian in here, and there's lots 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:25.840 of buttons and knobs, which I like. You have a 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:29.680 Molde select knob here, a drive mode button. You have 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:34.559 crawl mode, hill descent control. You have your locking center diff, 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.600 you have your locking rear diff. You have the ability 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:40.079 to disconnect the anti roll bars to get more off 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:44.360 road traction. You got a switch for high four and 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:47.800 low four. So it looks toally legit, but it's also 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:51.040 something that you can just drive as in every day. 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:51.719 Yeah, that's right. 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.560 And it's the hybrid powertrain shared with the Tacoma, so 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:58.160 you get a tiny bit of electric power and better 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:00.520 fuel economy than g X five to fifty. I think 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:03.480 the combined fuel economy number is in the low twenties, 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:05.200 around twenty two or twenty three miles a gallon. 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:07.720 That's pretty good. Well, let's take it off road and 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:13.199 see what's up. All right, buckle up, we've got our 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:14.040 off road flag. 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:18.760 We're at Bundy Hill off Road Park in beautiful Jerome, Michigan, 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:20.800 and this is a place where we come to play 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.800 on occasion. I think we've taken the bronco here. 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:28.080 Yeah, we'll bring comparison tests here and test out vehicles 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:29.560 see how well they can do off road. 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.480 I also love there are a couple handles here. 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:34.840 Oh yeah, on the A pillar and the A I mean, 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:36.600 look at how upright these A pillars are. 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:37.360 It's great. 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:42.520 It's a great panoramic, kind of widescreen TV effect. We 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:46.040 are off roading solo. Are you locked up? Are we 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:47.079 already stuck in here? 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:47.240 Now? 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:51.000 We're not stuck, just creeping through a real slow that 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:54.080 we're in tipping. You're still in high four though I'm 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:56.760 not quite ready for low Okay, we just got over 0:09:56.840 --> 0:10:00.800 our first obstacle. I didn't hear too much scraping. 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:04.600 No, everything is still in working. 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:06.040 Order, and now it's in hybrid mode. 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.320 Silently creeping through this sand pit here. 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:10.840 That's kind of eerie. 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:14.640 It is weird, but we're saving the environment by trampling 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:14.920 on it. 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:19.280 The off road park. I think the speed limit here 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.600 is ten miles an hour. I'm going five miles an 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:23.760 hour very gingerly as we traverse this. 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.800 Yeah, and off roading is the most fun way to 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.439 go five miles an hour that's right. You know, it's 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:33.400 funny thinking about this versus the Ford Bronco. The Ford 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:37.520 Bronco has all sorts of trick electronic stuff, like that 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:41.280 trail turn that'll pivot the vehicle like around a tree 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:45.360 and really decreasing the turning radius by breaking the inside wheel. 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:48.160 It gives you all sorts of video spotters. 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:50.600 But you know, the Bronco is really going after the 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:53.640 Jeep and really trying to out jeep the Jeep. 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:55.880 This is not doing that. No, I mean, it still 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.800 functions as a regular suv. It's pretty quiet on the highway, 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:00.240 a fuel economies DC and. 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:04.319 Doesn't have those crazy knobby tires. Yeah, that's why I 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:06.080 get with the Sasquatch package. 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:08.440 They'll leave that to the aftermarket and the old man 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:09.520 Emo lift kit. 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:13.479 That's right, and there will be a healthy, healthy aftermarket 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:14.320 for this thing. 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:18.120 So what are your first impressions. It's pretty unfazed. 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.520 So what's funny is it's a hybrid, so it's doing 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:23.760 what hybrids do at low speeds and we're just running 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:26.320 on electric motors and it's completely silent there the engine 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:26.800 just kicked on. 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:27.920 That's very cool. 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:30.880 Oh, it says bottomless dump over there. I don't think 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:32.360 we want to. No, that's not over there. 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:36.280 That doesn't look appealing at all. So we're just traversing 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.079 some off road trails. We've got it all the way 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.640 up to twelve miles an hour. The ride's really nice too. 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:45.120 It is nice, huge, really plush. Yeah, does not beat 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.680 you up at all. And on the road. The structure 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:49.760 of this truck feels really solid. I was worried it 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.880 was going to feel like the previous generation Tacoma, which 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:55.120 felt like there was no structure underneath you. But it's 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:58.199 really solid. But I am missing the old Lancruiser had 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:02.320 this wonderful the steering that felt like it was loobed 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:03.479 by cold molasses. 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:03.960 Ye. 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:06.960 And it gave the truck this like invincible feel almost, 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.079 And it felt like you were driving this ten thousand 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:11.840 pound vehicle just because it forced you to slow down. 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.679 It forced you to just not put any inputs in 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:16.960 that we're big and this one is more normal, so 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.120 I think. But people appreciate this, but I kind of 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:19.800 missed the old one. 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.360 Yeah. The last one is like piloting a cargo ship. 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:24.160 Yes, that's right, that's right. 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.720 But I think our biggest risk to life and limb. 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.480 Here is cutting a tire on one of these rocks, that's. 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.680 Right, Yeah, it's pretty easy. One of the things that 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:35.640 you want in an off rudder, too, is a really 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:38.599 predictable accelerator pedal, so that you can feed in just 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:40.520 the right amount of throttle. You can feed in just 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:43.920 everything perfectly, and this really does that, even in hybrid mode. 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:46.520 It just gives you the torque that you need, and 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:47.559 it's very predictable. 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:49.680 I'm just in the passenger seat right now, but it 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:51.600 seems like a pretty easy vehicle to place. 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:54.280 Yeah. I can see every corner of it. I can 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.240 see exactly where the back window is. I can see 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:59.680 the front corners perfectly. And then Toyota has lowered the 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.400 side glass too relative to the windshield, so I can 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:04.240 see out my door really well too. 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:05.240 Let's go up. 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:06.880 This is giving climb this. 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:11.160 Okay, you might need to modify your settings. 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:13.480 Sure, Let's let's lock up the center diff. 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.760 Okay, I'll lock up the rear diff. A couple of buttons, 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.520 why not belt and suspenders. 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:24.360 On a pair of sands and belts. Let's put it 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:27.559 in dirt. Okay, it doesn't have an air suspension, so 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:29.719 we're not lifting it. The ground clearance stays at eight 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:32.160 point seven inches no matter what you do, unless you 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:35.560 put larger tires on it. Now we're climbing this grade. 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:39.160 It's not having any trouble whatsoever. 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:40.800 No, that's super easy. 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:43.160 There's some big rocks at the end of it. It 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.480 also has a big skin play up front too. All right, 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:48.600 this is a little more treacherous on the downslope, So 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:50.559 we're gonna put it in. Let's see how their hill 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:55.079 descent control works. Call it DAC crawl. So if we 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:57.680 hit the crawl button, we can adjust the max speed 0:13:57.720 --> 0:13:59.559 that it's going to go. So let's go all the 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:01.760 way down to two. You can go as high as 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:02.720 eighteen as well. 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.280 That seems so it's going to use the breaks. 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.240 It's going to use the brakes to slow us down here. 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:11.120 Yeah, eighteen seems a little Yeah, it's a little aggressive. 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:12.640 Oh, and it's holding it right at two. Oh I 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.480 just saw three, but we're going back to two. Oh. 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:16.480 It's just so easy. 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:18.880 It takes all the thought out of it. 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:20.280 It's like an autonomous vehicle. 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:23.080 All I have to do is steer and avoid the 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.960 really big ruds. Not exactly new technology, but adjusting it's cool. 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:31.120 Let's climb this little hill here. It looks like it's 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:33.280 pretty steep up top. So it's going to test the 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:37.400 breakover angle, which is actually better than the old land Cruiser. Right. 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.000 It has the same approach angle as the old one, 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:41.480 but a better breakover angle. 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:45.360 Yeah, and on the same wheelbase. We're at the top 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:50.440 making a tight left. It's gonna lean a little back 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:54.520 into the crawl and just make this super easy on ourselves. 0:14:58.320 --> 0:14:59.760 Park parking warning. 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:01.320 Rock ahead. 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:05.520 Nice. Okay, that was easy. 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:05.960 That's good. 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:10.200 It's it's been easy so far, which is good. Can 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.160 I take a Yeah, you want to try it? I 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:22.640 go watch the door slam. 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:24.880 Oh, there it is again. 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.240 I don't know what your Uber passenger rating is, but 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.280 mine's pretty high because I don't slam the doors, so 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:31.280 I'm not really even pushing. I'm not even slamming the 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:32.800 door that hard and it's making that noise. 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.720 Yeah, that's a great tip. By the way, don't slam 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:36.960 your Uber driver's door. 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:44.160 Yeah, you won't get a five star rating. That looks 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:47.520 a little That looks a little too eight me. Yeah, 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:51.520 it's a little narrow. Yeah. The electric assist allows this 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:53.560 four cylinder to bump up to four hundred and sixty 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:55.640 five pound feet of torque. But it does have a 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:59.840 really small battery and the pedal's nice. 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.200 It is nice and it's very easy to modulate. 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:07.840 Oh there's another breakover angle test. There we go, No problem. 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.480 I'm going to do it old style hill descent just 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:13.160 by breaking. That's a little bit more fun. But that 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:14.680 wasn't all that challenging. 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:18.080 I like that. There's no steering kickback, that's true. 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:21.840 Yeah, you're not getting any weird kind of phases where 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.600 the steering goes light or it kicks back in your. 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:26.840 Hand, right. I haven't seen it snap once. And we're 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:29.520 going over stuff that's kicking the body around, for sure. 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:31.560 But good tip off roading. 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:35.880 Do not hook your thumbs into the spokes of the 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:39.760 wheel like you might do on road, because if there 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:43.600 is kickback, to break your thumbs or at least give 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.080 you a little because that's. 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:49.160 Oh wow, we're getting a little crazy. 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.360 I think we are. I wouldn't go in there. Okay, 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:51.960 let me back. 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:54.640 You can turn around. Okay, there's a sign on the 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:56.000 tree that says wild. 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:58.720 This is where that trail turned feature on the Bronco 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:01.080 would really help. Yeah, which is not making a fourteen 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:05.400 point turn here, try not to hit the tree. 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:10.080 This is where spotters would help as well. Yeah, but 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.679 the plushness of the ride is really pretty sure. I'm 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:15.440 there's not even that much head toss, right, I'm not 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:19.000 getting thrown around that much. It's got all this initial compliance. 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:24.320 Breakover angle over angle test pretty incredible. 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.520 There it goes. I mean you can see the corner perfectly, 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.480 which have allowed you to avoid that tree. Very very 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:34.760 tight turning radius, which is nice. Hey, it really makes 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:35.959 everything seem pretty easy. 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:39.480 I know, it really is easy. Yeah. 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:43.280 These mirrors are great because you can see both sides 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:44.720 of the car the whole way down. 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:46.600 It really is good spotting. 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:47.840 And well we have an inklinometer. 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:49.880 There's a nice little inklinometer like the. 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:53.280 I think the really old landcruisers had that too. 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:57.880 That's a great touch and nice. Okay, let's exit out 0:17:57.880 --> 0:17:58.200 of here. 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:01.399 I haven't heard it scrape once. 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:05.320 Well, don't know if that's talent too soon. 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:10.040 I don't know if that's our driving talent or the 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:13.000 breakover angle on the ground clearance. Oh there it is. 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:14.040 There's the front nice. 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:14.679 Oh look at that. 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:17.520 Okay, so this front camera gives you kind of a 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:20.080 ghosted view of your front wheel angle. 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:22.240 Yeah, it's like the car is gone in front of 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:23.400 you and you just see the tires. 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:26.200 That's wild. I don't want to spend too much time 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:27.000