Toyota 'Hummer'

[Celtoid]

I must have been seeing things...

I was on the bus on the way home, still in Brisbane city. Out of the corner of my eye, I spotted a bright yellow, wide 4WD. I think it had some sort of advertising on it.

I immediately assumed it was a Hummer, then I saw the front grill with a big 'Toyota' on it. Unfortunately it was on a side street and I only got a quick look as the bus drove on.

:confused:

Ideas anybody?

[Larry]

Sounds like an FJ Cruiser.
FJ Cruiser: Home (http://www.toyota.com.au/fj-cruiser)

[Narangga]

Sounds like an FJ Cruiser.
FJ Cruiser: Home (http://www.toyota.com.au/fj-cruiser)

As the man said.

[p38arover]

Yep. Lots of yellow FJs in the USA and I think they are now coming here.

[Tombie]

Drove one last week.
Goes well... Handles well.
$50k on road

[Ranga]

Drove one last week.
Goes well... Handles well.
$50k on road

But ugly as sin. IMHO :)

[Ranga]

wasn't one of these was it?

Toyota Mega Cruiser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia@@AMEPARAM@@/wiki/File:Toyota_Mega_Cruiser.jpg" class="image"><img alt="Toyota Mega Cruiser.jpg" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Toyota_Mega_Cruiser.jpg/250px-Toyota_Mega_Cruiser.jpg"@@AMEPARAM@@commons/thumb/4/4e/Toyota_Mega_Cruiser.jpg/250px-Toyota_Mega_Cruiser.jpg

Motorama used to have one as a promo vehicle

http://www.google.com.au/images?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=uts&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&q=toyota+mega+cruiser&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&sa=X&ei=N-1kTdWXM4Wyccmp_aoF&ved=0CCEQsAQ&biw=1920&bih=914

[RobHay]

Drove one last week.
Goes well... Handles well.
$50k on road
Ohhhh same as the Defender 110

[RobHay]

....and then there is the Military version of the Toyota Mega Cruiser :twisted:

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/02/144.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/02/145.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/02/146.jpg

makes you think......... Hummmmmmmm

[Sprint]

Ohhhh same as the Defender 110

except uglier, less practical and only available in Automatic.....

[p38arover]

I'd forgotten about the MegaCruiser.

[Landy Smurf]

yes i saw it at maitland toyota and also they have a hotwheels version. i think they look stupid i dont know how much they are selling them for but i imagine a fair bit

[clubagreenie]

Hey I'm pretty ugly and I'll admit to it. And I'll also admit to steering myself around.

But I'd admit to a horse turd in the street before I'd admit to that.

[isuzu110]

Did somebody say FJ Cruiser ?

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/02/179.jpg

Seems that on a quiet day you can hear them more than just rust

The fender/body crack bulge, FJ Cruiser - YotaTech Forums (http://www.yotatech.com/f135/fender-body-crack-bulge-fj-cruiser-123655/)

[LOVEMYRANGIE]

wasn't one of these was it?

Toyota Mega Cruiser - Wikipedia, the free [email]encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Mega_Cruiser)

Motorama used to have one as a promo vehicle

http://www.google.com.au/images?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=uts&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&q=toyota+mega+cruiser&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&sa=X&ei=N-1kTdWXM4Wyccmp_aoF&ved=0CCEQsAQ&biw=1920&bih=914

Think I'm gonna be sick.....




Sent from my backyard TeePee using smoke signals.

[disco2hse]

Yes FJ, Toymota now making Tonka. :p

Journey | Toyota FJ Cruiser – Top To Bottom Off Road (http://www.toptobottom.co.nz/cruiser/journey/'show=all)

[Marshall]

http://toyotafjcruiser.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/toyota-fj-cruiser.jpg

[Celtoid]

Sorry guys, been offline for a few days.

Yup, FJ Cruiser appears to be the beast.

Best I cancel the appointment with shrink and eye Dr....:)

Thanks very much for the input.

Kev.

[4x4x2]

looks as useless as a rav 4

[Tombie]

looks as useless as a rav 4

Afraid not! Very capable vehicle.
Comfy, well thought out interior, quick and works well.

[wagoo]

....and then there is the Military version of the Toyota Mega Cruiser :twisted:

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/02/144.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/02/145.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/02/146.jpg

makes you think......... Hummmmmmmm

Even with my perverted sense of aesthetics that is one ugly looking beast.
The station wagon version looked better proportioned fom memory.
Wagoo.

[RobHay]

Even with my perverted sense of aesthetics that is one ugly looking beast.
The station wagon version looked better proportioned fom memory.
Wagoo.


Have to agree but.......my perverted self is thinking.........wouldn't all the micro car drivers clear a path for you...in a hurry.......imagine seeing that in ya rearview mirrors bearing down on you. :D:p:twisted:

[RobHay]

apparently........available from Japan at around $111,000.00 (Mega Cruiser that is)............for that I could have HIS & HERS Defenders:D

[clubagreenie]

You wouldn't see it in the mirrors, you'd just see under it

[Celtoid]

I think I saw the Military variant...all be it in civilian 'clothes' on the Magic Mile in Moorooka.

Looked wider and flatter than the other one I saw.

[VladTepes]

Thy are IMHO rubbish (ie junk) BUT may be capable off road.

Now that Hummer is gone - Toyota will sell a few of these - but snce Hummer couldn;t sustain that niche, eventually this "thing" will be extinct as well.

[JBM770]

Watched "Two Roads to Baja" and "Two Roads to Taupo", basically a race documentary about 2 race teams using FJ Cruisers thinly disguised as advertising.

The rookies smashed their front end going over the bumps too fast in Taupo but made it over the line and didnt finish officially in Baja because they ripped a trans cooler line off the box and got in 4 hours late after borrowing some fluid from another competitor.

The pro team was Millen racing, run by Rod Millen, they finished 2nd in their class in Baja by about 4 seconds and finished 4th overall in Taupo.

[John W]

Has to be new tin plonked on prado or hilux skeleton from the looks.

[Allan]

This makes my bull terrier look like Bardot at 20. The most ugly dog ever, please Land Rover don't make the new Defender look like this motor vehicle after birth.

Allan

[disco2hse]

please Land Rover don't make the new Defender look like this motor vehicle...

uh oh, you've said it now. :rolleyes:

[Dinty]

G'day All, I read a small article in yesterdays Newcastle Morning Herald. FJ?? reliving it's Snowy heritage, LOL LOL useless reporters cheers Dennis

[loanrangie]

Afraid not! Very capable vehicle.
Comfy, well thought out interior, quick and works well.

So when you picking up yours then :p, why on earth would anyone want to remake one of the ugliest, crappiest vehicles ever made ? - oh thats right, toyota would so it matches the rest of the fugly fleet.

[Hoges]

G'day All, I read a small article in yesterdays Newcastle Morning Herald. FJ?? reliving it's Snowy heritage, LOL LOL useless reporters cheers Dennis

yeah I spent time in the Snowy in 1962, never saw any "FJs" except driven by young tourists.. all with chains ...there were also some FBs and EHs later. Smart people drove Morris 1100s and VWs in the snow:angel::angel::wasntme: ...oh! THAT FJ:twisted: t'was an acronymn for something else back then given that WWII had only stopped 17 yrs previously..and memories were still very raw...!:wasntme:

[QLDMIKE]

There is a FJ cruiser getting around Canberra. It is left hand steer and ACT rego.

[NCF 110]

Saw an FJ being unloaded from a ship here in Fremantle to-day , then driven to the dealer , funny looking vehical if you ask me .

[BMKal]

Pretty sure I read somewhere that it's actually a Prado, with a trendy body thrown at it.

Would want to be better than the Prado's that we've got at work. The most useless piece of plastic crap that I've ever come across. The D4D is a good engine - but that's their only strong point.

[loanrangie]

Pretty sure I read somewhere that it's actually a Prado, with a trendy body thrown at it.

Would want to be better than the Prado's that we've got at work. The most useless piece of plastic crap that I've ever come across. The D4D is a good engine - but that's their only strong point.

Yes it is a rebodied playdoh, but your only choice in engine is the V6 petrol .

[wagoo]

G'day All, I read a small article in yesterdays Newcastle Morning Herald. FJ?? reliving it's Snowy heritage, LOL LOL useless reporters cheers Dennis
What, and are you unaware that Thiesse Industries imported LandCruisers to use in the latter stages of the Snowy project? That was the beginning of them becoming the main LandCruiser importers/distributors for many years after.
Wagoo.

[460cixy]

and went they real heaps of **** first ones had no low box and only 3 speed only the thiesse contractors used them. but if you ask that **** pot on 4wd monthly the snowy scheme was single handedly built by toyota

[UncleHo]

The Thiess contract for the Snowy was into its second ten years when Leslie Thiess tried the then new Toyota 4x4 utes,they had 6 cylinders so alot more power than the 4 cyl 2 1/4ltre Landrover, the trials vehicles worked out OK so Les and his brothers being a very smart businessmen, asked Toyota for the dealer consession to import them,first for the Snowy and then to retail them, he then did what Rover Aust,later Leyland Aust failed to do,he marketed them to farmers/graziers and put dealers WITH spare parts stock in many country towns, that's what got Toyota started in Aust Vehicles with parts/srvice back up in country areas,something that Rover,Leyland,JRA,LRA,still haven't got their head around :(

Nissan followed the Toyota dealer model and that was another nail in the Landrover coffin.

[460cixy]

yup land rover realy droped the ball service wise and its only getting worse

[wagoo]

and went they real heaps of **** first ones had no low box and only 3 speed only the thiesse contractors used them. but if you ask that **** pot on 4wd monthly the snowy scheme was single handedly built by toyota

I think they had a 4spd with crawler 1st together with single range t/case.And weren't Thiesse heavy industries the main contractors for building the Snowy scheme?
Wagoo.

[UncleHo]

G'day Wagoo :)

Yes they were, when the Commonwealth Govt called for tenders, the Theiss Bros put in, they had spent the early post war years 45/46/47 gathering ex US engineers equipt left/dumped in the Pacific Islands when WW11 finished,(the US forces left they just took their kit and left the equipment and trucks) the Thiess brothers went from Island to Island and collected the stuff in ex US LCTs, so, when the tender was called they were the only private company that had modern engineering gear,so got the contract,they then kept scavageing the Islands for further gear.most of the labour was European displaced person migrants.


cheers

[PAT303]

Land Cruisers got on the snowy sceme because LR could not supply vehicles,the LR's were in effect developed at the snowy with better brakes,upgraded suspension etc and were the first vehicles sold in Oz with seatbelts as standard fitment.1345 LR's were at the snowy against 13 LC's and the LC's,like the series one were built on jeep chassis as Tojo were making jeeps for the Yanks to get production running and get jobs happening after the war.Thier is only one photo of an LC at the snowy and it was parked on the main street of cooma when it was taken. Pat

[wagoo]

Land Cruisers got on the snowy sceme because LR could not supply vehicles,the LR's were in effect developed at the snowy with better brakes,upgraded suspension etc and were the first vehicles sold in Oz with seatbelts as standard fitment.1345 LR's were at the snowy against 13 LC's and the LC's,like the series one were built on jeep chassis as Tojo were making jeeps for the Yanks to get production running and get jobs happening after the war.Thier is only one photo of an LC at the snowy and it was parked on the main street of cooma when it was taken. Pat

Early LandCruisers had nothing in common with Jeeps except 4wd. The Jeep had a 4 cyl 2.2 litre side valve and later F head engine. The Cruiser a 3.8 litre Chevrolet designed 6 cyl ohv engine. The jeep a lightweight Warner 3spd gearbox, 2 spd Spicer model 18 t/case and very lightweight Dana model 25 axle assemblies. the Cruiser a heavy duty 4 spd Toyota designed gearbox, single speed t/case and much larger, stronger banjo style diff/axle assemblies. The Cruiser also had a much stronger chassis of heavier gauge steel.
Wagoo.

[460cixy]

sounds impressive might have to ditch my land rover for one of these fangled japponese machines

[UncleHo]

The WW11 Jeep had a military deemed life expectantcy of 90days the same thing applied to the Liberty Ships,one trip to the UK/Pacific and they paid for themselves and if lost were of no value.

Toyota also built GMC 2 1/2 tonner's Duece & a Half and Dodge WC series under licence both before and during the Korean war with the proviso that they could also produce them for civilian sale after 1955.

[PAT303]

Early LandCruisers had nothing in common with Jeeps except 4wd. The Jeep had a 4 cyl 2.2 litre side valve and later F head engine. The Cruiser a 3.8 litre Chevrolet designed 6 cyl ohv engine. The jeep a lightweight Warner 3spd gearbox, 2 spd Spicer model 18 t/case and very lightweight Dana model 25 axle assemblies. the Cruiser a heavy duty 4 spd Toyota designed gearbox, single speed t/case and much larger, stronger banjo style diff/axle assemblies. The Cruiser also had a much stronger chassis of heavier gauge steel.
Wagoo.

I never said they were jeeps I said like the series one they were based on jeeps,they got the basic design layout off the jeep and I would bet a weeks pay no one would reconise the first LC's as anything but a jeep they look so similar.The LC's were stronger because the willy's were weight restricted because they had to be air transportable. Pat

[wagoo]

I never said they were jeeps I said like the series one they were based on jeeps,they got the basic design layout off the jeep and I would bet a weeks pay no one would reconise the first LC's as anything but a jeep they look so similar.The LC's were stronger because the willy's were weight restricted because they had to be air transportable. Pat

Pat, You wrote ''LCs like series ones were built on Jeep chassis etc etc.'' Check your previous post#44. And you'd be a weeks pay poorer if you made that bet with me or most of my 4wd aquaintences.:)
Wagoo.

[PAT303]

Sorry wagoo,what I'm trying to say and trying to write are two different things.Both makers started with Willy's for idea's and both used them as mule vehicles as they were readily available in the UK and Tojo was making them.Toyota did the same again with the 80 series,they reverse engineered the RRC.I'll bet most LC owners would pick the FJ from a Willy's at first glance. Pat

[waz]

Early LandCruisers had nothing in common with Jeeps except 4wd. The Jeep had a 4 cyl 2.2 litre side valve and later F head engine. The Cruiser a 3.8 litre Chevrolet designed 6 cyl ohv engine. The jeep a lightweight Warner 3spd gearbox, 2 spd Spicer model 18 t/case and very lightweight Dana model 25 axle assemblies. the Cruiser a heavy duty 4 spd Toyota designed gearbox, single speed t/case and much larger, stronger banjo style diff/axle assemblies. The Cruiser also had a much stronger chassis of heavier gauge steel.
Wagoo.

My parents have a 1950s LC with a 3sp. I'll have a look at the exact year when I'm out there next. It doesn't get used much any more because the gearing is too tall and they got a high-tech, late '60s BJ.

Waz

[wagoo]

I guess a few of us here including myself have strayed a little off topic, so back to the new FJ.What model LandCruiser is it supposed to remind us of again? Not Ol Rusty Guts the FJ55 Wagon surely?:)
Wagoo.

[UncleHo]

For those involved in the Toyota/Landrover/Jeep discussion, the preproduction Landrover that was shown at the Amsterdam motor show in 1948 was on a Jeep chassis it was Landrover L03 from memory :)

[PAT303]

My parents have a 1950s LC with a 3sp. I'll have a look at the exact year when I'm out there next. It doesn't get used much any more because the gearing is too tall and they got a high-tech, late '60s BJ.

Waz

A mate of mine had one too,dogleg from first to second if my memory's correct. Pat

[PAT303]

I guess a few of us here including myself have strayed a little off topic, so back to the new FJ.What model LandCruiser is it supposed to remind us of again? Not Ol Rusty Guts the FJ55 Wagon surely?:)
Wagoo.
My pick as the worst model,they came from the factory with rust. Pat

[460cixy]

a bloke i recently brought a uni mog off has an early 3speed bj painted bright yellow. im hopeing it continues to rust in to nothingness