Tough love

Builds upon the virtues of its tough-as-nails successor without diluting its appeal Gareth Dean

Impressive in all departments … and it’s a Toyota, which means it will last forever Ray Leathern

No doubt, by the time you read this road test, you will have digested plenty of rhetoric regarding the Land Cruiser’s storied past and reputation for hard-as-nails, go any where ability. So, we’ll spare you the history lesson and focus on the present. The latest iteration of Toyota’s halo SUV has landed, bringing with it new engines, an all-new platform and a knee-buckling weight of expectation to build on the luxury and terrain-conquering credentials of its forebears. We got behind the wheel of what Toyota considers the most off-road focused model in the LC300 lineup – the 3,3 V6 turbodiesel in GR Sport specification – to see if these changes will add to or erode that impressive legacy.

In GR Sport guise, the