![]() ![]() His car burst into flames after it was struck head-on by the wrong-way driver on Route 9 southbound in Cromwell. Middletown Democrat Quentin Williams, 39, died in the early morning hours of Jan. (AP) - A Connecticut state representative and a wrong-way driver were both over the legal limit for alcohol when they were killed in a highway crash in January, according to government officials and state police. Business & Finance Click to expand menu.Now, we need to talk to a few of you after class. ![]() In any case, it’s a slightly smaller, slightly cheaper version of the SUV version of the Land Cruiser. OK, will someone just pick a name and stick to it? sure.Īnywho, the light-duty Land Cruiser powered on until the Nineties, when it finally scored the Prado name – or ‘Land Cruiser Colorado’ in Blighty – and continues on being called the Prado, or Land Cruiser LC3, LC4 or LC5, which. It was, in some markets, called the Bundera. But it wasn’t called the Prado at that point. It started off in the Eighties as a kind of light-duty Land Cruiser, a 70 Series that’d do everything 99 per cent of us could ever need. Then came the supermassive, super-luxe 100 and 200 Series and so on.īut then there’s the Prado. the one from Dante’s Peak) and the 80 Series in 1989 (i.e. As with the Jeep Wagoneer and Range Rover, Toyota made its pioneering SUV more luxurious with the 60 Series in 1980 (i.e. Then, in 1967, Toyota helped pioneer the SUV with its FJ55 off-road wagon: a gentler, better-mannered off-roader that traded away precious little off-road ability for a massive measure of family friendliness. So that’s everything from the original BJ (quiet down, children) to the 20, 40 and 70 Series Land Cruisers, the latter continuing on doing what the Land Cruiser’s always done. The original Land Cruiser was as tough and uncompromising as the terrain it sought to conquer. It’s a kind of Land Cruiser, and it’s in the Land Cruiser family, but it’s not a proper Land Cruiser, as it were. Remember when we said the Land Cruiser Prado underpins the 4Runner? No? Well, were you actually paying attention at all? Yeesh.Īnywho, for those in the class that were paying attention, the Land Cruiser Prado is not the Land Cruiser. You can almost hear the Land Cruiser saying, ‘You have removed weak blood from us and made us stronger’. Fortunately, at least for the Toyota Land Cruiser, Studebaker stopped building its Land Cruiser in 1954 (the same year that Toyota started using the name), and then went belly-up in the Sixties. Unfortunately, Studebaker already had a car called the Land Cruiser in the early Fifties. And yeah, Toyota knew what it was doing, throwing down the gauntlet to that other world-famous off-roader. So Toyota changed the name to the Toyota BJ at first, and then – to the chagrin of double-entendre fans everywhere – changed it again to Toyota Land Cruiser. ![]() well, giving away a name with as much clout and cred as Jeep, considering how instrumental the American company was in creating a machine worthy of both. Local authorities saw the potential in the simple, off-road-ready machine and placed orders of their own, kicking off proper production of the Toyota Jeep.įunnily enough, Willys had a few misgivings about. Aside from being a bit more powerful and a bit bigger, the Jeep BJ was broadly similar to the original Willys Jeep, and served in the Korean War. Just like the Willys/Ford/Bantam Jeeps of World War II, the Americans decided to keep things simple and use Japanese-built versions of the basic Jeep design, placing an order for 100 Japanese Jeeps with Toyota. Then, in the early Fifties, America had a whole new war (or police action, if you’re a fan of government nomenclature / propaganda) to fight over in Korea. After the Americans put a particularly severe end to Imperial Japan, almost a million Yanks found themselves stationed on one of the islands of Nihon. ![]()
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