Good afternoon all!
The wife is currently running an LR3 as a daily driver, and I have an '05 Excursion as my daily runaround when I am not running one of my ExPo rigs. The wife's LR3 is getting up there in miles, and we are trying to make the decision on wether to go with a new LR4 or try something completely different and do a brand new Land Cruiser.
Has anybody here actually done this? How is the room, reliability, functionality, etc.? As crazy as it sounds, no one within a 200 mile radius of where I am located at has a new LC to look at, so I have no idea on how they compare for interior space, ride, etc. Are they much bigger than the LR 3/4 platform? Leg room inside? We have several other purpose built overland rigs, so this rig will see daily duty driving, as well as the occasional cross country trip to hit the mountains snowboarding or Mountain Biking, out to the coast to see the ocean, and as a transport rig to get the entire family out to Moab for our annual pilgrimage to the red rocks. The truck would see light fire trail duty, gravel roads and dirt paths back to "the good stuff", and LIGHT off roading in Moab (No hard trails, just trips out to good places to hike and bike.) The truck would likely be lightly modified with a mild lift, lockers front and rear, and a roof rack or bars to haul a Rocket Box and bikes. Our family is the wife and I, and our three kids ranging from 12 down to 5.
I am hoping the LC is a little bigger than the LR platform - I love, LOVE my Ford Excursion, but even though it only has ~57K miles on it I am not completely confident in the 6.0L platform and it is getting up there in age compared to the rest of the fleet. (truck has given me NO issues, so it is hard to let it go - may have to figure out a way to keep it.) The LR3 has actually been fantastic too (Maybe my Defender is just SO BAD that the LR3 looks stone - reliable...) so I have no problem going back that route as well.
Any thoughts are appreciated - thanks!
The wife is currently running an LR3 as a daily driver, and I have an '05 Excursion as my daily runaround when I am not running one of my ExPo rigs. The wife's LR3 is getting up there in miles, and we are trying to make the decision on wether to go with a new LR4 or try something completely different and do a brand new Land Cruiser.
Has anybody here actually done this? How is the room, reliability, functionality, etc.? As crazy as it sounds, no one within a 200 mile radius of where I am located at has a new LC to look at, so I have no idea on how they compare for interior space, ride, etc. Are they much bigger than the LR 3/4 platform? Leg room inside? We have several other purpose built overland rigs, so this rig will see daily duty driving, as well as the occasional cross country trip to hit the mountains snowboarding or Mountain Biking, out to the coast to see the ocean, and as a transport rig to get the entire family out to Moab for our annual pilgrimage to the red rocks. The truck would see light fire trail duty, gravel roads and dirt paths back to "the good stuff", and LIGHT off roading in Moab (No hard trails, just trips out to good places to hike and bike.) The truck would likely be lightly modified with a mild lift, lockers front and rear, and a roof rack or bars to haul a Rocket Box and bikes. Our family is the wife and I, and our three kids ranging from 12 down to 5.
I am hoping the LC is a little bigger than the LR platform - I love, LOVE my Ford Excursion, but even though it only has ~57K miles on it I am not completely confident in the 6.0L platform and it is getting up there in age compared to the rest of the fleet. (truck has given me NO issues, so it is hard to let it go - may have to figure out a way to keep it.) The LR3 has actually been fantastic too (Maybe my Defender is just SO BAD that the LR3 looks stone - reliable...) so I have no problem going back that route as well.
Any thoughts are appreciated - thanks!