Thread: Toyota LandCruiser - Australia buys the most in the world

It would be interesting to know what percentage of their 10,000,000 are still running!

"It would be interesting to know what percentage of their 10,000,000 are still running! " Heaps of them from my observation yesterday. Cook and I saw 3 of what I think were 40 series and of course mobs of newer models.
I like the bit where Thiess reckoned the difference between Tojo and others was their response to problems. Of course that was in their early days when they wanted customers because it certainly wasn't their attitude to my sons 200 series probs. not that many years back when they first came out. Took them a very long time to fix the engine and replace the transmission.
Recently in Broome at Cable Beach CP I reckon that there were 3 Discos and about 300 LC mostly 200 series driven by fat old blow hards who looked at everything else with contempt. .
AlanH.

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.

Originally Posted by ATH

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I like the bit where Thiess reckoned the difference between Tojo and others was their response to problems. Of course that was in their early days when they wanted customers because it certainly wasn't their attitude to my sons 200 series probs. not that many years back when they first came out. Took them a very long time to fix the engine and replace the transmission.

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.

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.

That is not an uncommon procedure in a modern dealership of any brand. Well not the ones I've worked at.

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.

I heard Ford didn't even bother with the Army tender when they owned Land Rover, which is why they now run Merc G-wagens. I'm not sure why they don't have Cruisers, maybe don't want anything popular with the troops as pvt vehicles, too many bits might go missing. I had that problem in the SADF, when we used to have Weber DCD 36 carb's on one of the engines we used.

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.

Toyota produce vehicles people want,simple.Holden and Ford didn't,which is a shame.Some of their last vehicles were the best these brands had ever made.

Toyota don't just fall out of bed and produce leading sales in just about every class of vehicle,in Aus.

And have ridiculous reliability and resale(Please don't turn this thread into another Toyota bashing thread,there are enough on here as it is)

Being the largest market for LC,i am sure Toyota Japan,listen closely to what Toyota Australia want.

As an example Australia is a tiny market for JLR,so i don't think JLR in UK would listen as much to JLR Aus.Dont get me wrong,i am sure JLR want as many sales as they can here,but they would be more likely to change something on a vehicle for a large market,than the market here.

It's fleet buyers that are making up the majority of the numbers (mining). Same as the Corolla fleet buyers make up the majority. Rental companies.


Just saying.................