Toyota’s U.S. arm revealed a Fb put up on Tuesday that hints on the Land Cruiser nameplate’s return to those shores.

The put up included a video displaying classic Land Cruiser badges, along with the terse message, “Did you actually assume we’d be gone for lengthy? The legend returns.”

The Land Cruiser nameplate bowed out of the U.S. after 2021 whereas the remainder of the world obtained a redesigned 300-series technology for 2022. The 300-series Land Cruiser is the dual to the newest Lexus LX that reached the U.S. for 2022.

Toyota’s Fb put up comes lower than every week after Automotive Information reported that Toyota is contemplating its subsequent Land Cruiser Prado on the market within the U.S., probably marketed as a Land Cruiser.

Fb put up by Toyota USA – June 2023

The present Land Cruiser Prado was by no means bought within the U.S., although it’s carefully associated to the outgoing Lexus GX. Lexus has redesigned the GX for 2024, and a brand new Land Cruiser Prado twin to the brand new GX is ready within the wings.

Land Cruisers and Land Cruiser Prados have historically been carefully associated, although Toyota has differentiated Prado variations by giving them a extra critical off-road focus. The present Prado options extra driving modes which might be particularly suited to varied terrain, and that is more likely to be the case with the brand new technology, judging by the brand new Overtrail and Overtrail+ modes featured within the 2024 GX. The GX can also be outfitted with full-time four-wheel drive, a 2-speed switch case, and a Torsen limited-slip heart differential as commonplace, so it is nonetheless meant as an off-roader.

The brand new GX, and thus additionally the brand new Land Cruiser Prado, makes use of Toyota’s TNGA-F body-on-frame platform, which can also be discovered within the 300-series Land Cruiser and its Lexus LX twin, in addition to the Sequoia SUV and the newest Toyota Tundra and Tacoma pickup vehicles.