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Toyota must surely be wondering who will be left to buy the incoming LandCruiser 300 Series, with sales of the existing LC200 series continuing to boom in 2021.
Fresh sales figures for the Australian market dropped today, and they show that love for the V8-powered LandCruiser is in no way abating, with the sales numbers continuing to grow, rather than plateau of even drop.
A massive 1326 LC200s were sold in February, up 16 per cent on the month before, and a huge 49.2 per cent year-to-date. That puts the LandCruiser on track to record around 15,000 sales this year, if it can sustain those numbers.
More impressive, the ageing icon shifted 15,000 units in 2020, too, up from around 13000 units in 2019.
That's a lot of vehicles, with the boom thought to be driven both by the increase in national holidaying thanks to border closures, and reports the new 300 Series will ditch the V8 diesel in favour of a six-cylinder diesel.
The new comes as Japanese publications point to the LandCruiser 300 Series revealed being pushed back from late March or early April to July, ahead of deliveries now kicking off from August or September.
That model is expected to usher in a new era of diesel tech for Toyota's icon, with a 3.3-litre, six-cylinder diesel to be offered, albeit it one that's expected to out-punch the current 200 Series in all the ways that matter.
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