Toyota LandCruiser - Australia buys the most in the world

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Originally Posted by POD

Their response to problems is no doubt different with a customer the size of Theiss to what it is with the individual customer. I was foreman at a Toyota dealer in the late 80s, we had one customer with a new vehicle that was using what he felt was an unacceptable amount of oil. Toyota's response was that we were to fill to the dipstick level, let him come back after exactly 1,000km and if it took less than one liter of oil, it was acceptable. I had the job of telling him that it was okay if his new car burnt 9.9 liters of oil between services.

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Had a mate who as a mechanic informed me that it’s common for a new motor to use 1lt/1000klm,, he was working on a new Holden which the owner, not happy with the dealer had bought over for him to check.
I had similar with my new Toyota Ute. They refused to deal with the smoke problem, but the buggered diff was a bit harder to excuse. They literally laughed as they said my diff was stuffed, backfired badly when I told them the cars was under 4 months old, and they could lend me another whilst they replaced mine.
Sold it a short time later, which was a shame because I actually like the 75 series utes,, but happy to end up in the D1 [thumbsupbig]

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Originally Posted by grey_ghost

Imagine of there was 10,000,000 Series/110/Defenders running around out there [wink11]

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There isn't 10M LCs running around, just 10M sold. The early ones rusted out pretty quickly, like most cars from that era.

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Originally Posted by bsperka

There isn't 10M LCs running around, just 10M sold. The early ones rusted out pretty quickly, like most cars from that era.

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And nobody has come up with a percentage figure of how many of the 10M are still running as posed in post #2

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Originally Posted by POD

When Ford announced closure of their Australian manufacturing operations, I heard a bloke call in on the ABC who was a retired Ford dealer principal. He said that the dealer network had lobbied Ford for years to produce a vehicle as a direct competitor to the Land Cruiser but Ford had refused; a decade or so later the LC was the biggest selling vehicle in Aus and Ford was closing down.

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Sounds to me like he got his wish.
Ford Australia has designed, engineered, tested and developed the Ranger.
Not a direct competitor for the cruiser admittedly, but then the cruiser isn't the best selling vehicle in Australia.
The Hilux is.
And Ranger is second.

Have owned two Toyotas a Hi Lux and a Landcrusier both were just rubbish hi lux had more rattles then you could poke a stick at and the landcrusier dash dropper when the spot welds broke under the dash think I'll stick with my disco.

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Originally Posted by laney

Have owned two Toyotas a Hi Lux and a Landcrusier both were just rubbish hi lux had more rattles then you could poke a stick at and the landcrusier dash dropper when the spot welds broke under the dash think I'll stick with my disco.

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The Landcruiser/Hilux are a Completely different animal to a Discovery.
The Disco is a Luxury SUV and the Toyota offerings you had are work utes, Chalk and Cheese.
I owned a 1987 4runner and a 1994 Surf and these were a cross between a work ute and an SUV, They both had the 2.4D motor with the Surf having a turbo.
Both were pretty "Gutless" But they were bloody reliable, ran on the smell of an oily rag and you could take them anywhere with confidence.

Toyota has done so well in Australia because they sell a huge range of different vehicles from city buzz boxes to heavy duty 4WD's and trucks, They also have a huge dealer network and 99% of workshops are familiar with the brand.
Landrover on the other hand ONLY produce Luxury SUV's now and have a very "Mediocre" dealer network and very few workshops are familiar with the brand.

I must have missed it, but where did it say both his Toyotas were work utes?

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Originally Posted by Vern

I must have missed it, but where did it say both his Toyotas were work utes?

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Most Toyota Landcruisers and Hilux's are work utes with the exception of the "Troopy's" which are also pretty "Spartan" [bigwhistle]

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Originally Posted by trout1105

Farmers would also make up a Significant number of buyers as far as utes go.

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I don’t know any farmers who could afford to drop $80k on a ute. Some of the bigger graziers maybe, because they have the turnover, even if their margins are similarly low.

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Originally Posted by Arapiles

I don’t know any farmers who could afford to drop $80k on a ute. Some of the bigger graziers maybe, because they have the turnover, even if their margins are similarly low.

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Don’t know about the other states

Drive around WA country roads and every third or fourth vehicle you pass is a 79 series v8 ute

Plenty of them are adorning a set of P plates

Out of the other cars half of them are 200 series