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2022 Toyota LandCruiser 300 Series police car and base model imagined

Teaser images of the Toyota LandCruiser 300 Series have so far been of the flagship and GR Sport variants. We wondered how it might look in its most basic guise.


The 2022 Toyota LandCruiser 300 Series is just around the corner – due in Australian showrooms in the last few months of this year.

It will bring to an end the 14-year run of the Toyota LandCruiser 200 Series which is almost sold out.

We’ve already been given a preview of what the most expensive models in the 2022 Toyota LandCruiser 300 Series range will look like, in the form of the Sahara replacement and a rugged new GR Sport variant.

However, impatient to see what the full line-up will look like, we had our resident design guru Theophilus Chin conjure up a selection of more utilitarian base models, including one in police stripes (above).

Above: One of a small selection of Toyota LandCruiser 200 Series 4WDs used for highway patrol duties in remote NSW. Source: NSW Police Traffic and Highway Patrol Facebook page.

Police in most states in Australia use the Toyota LandCruiser (among other heavy duty four-wheel-drives) to cover remote areas.

However, they are also used in limited numbers by police in NSW and Victoria as a highway patrol vehicle, equipped with radar and other road-policing technology.

The Toyota LandCruisers are particularly useful as police vehicles in areas where animal strikes are common.

With that in mind, we had Theophilus Chin knock up a base model with a bull bar (above), and even a mining spec variant with barn doors (below).

Full disclosure: we don’t know if Toyota will offer a barn door version of the new LandCruiser 300 Series – or even if there will be a black-bumpered steel-wheel version. But, hey, we can dream.

Whatever the model line-up looks like in the 2022 Toyota LandCruiser range, we can expect a full suite of advanced safety tech from the cheapest to the dearest models, as with recent arrivals such as the Toyota Kluger, the updated Toyota HiLux, and the soon to be updated Toyota Prado, among others.

In the meantime, we’re waiting like the rest of you to see what the entire range looks like – and what price tags will be attached.

Dealers are yet to receive pricing on the 2022 Toyota LandCruiser range. However, using recent history as a guide, most dealers are bracing for price rises in the order of $10,000 to $15,000 or more.

We will publish more details as they come to hand.

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Joshua Dowling

Joshua Dowling has been a motoring journalist for more than 20 years, spending most of that time working for The Sydney Morning Herald (as motoring editor and one of the early members of the Drive team) and News Corp Australia. He joined CarAdvice / Drive in 2018, and has been a World Car of the Year judge for more than 10 years.

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