A new generation of land patrol exposure, or abandon the V8 to cancel the girder, and the old cross-country gun will become a bitch?

Hard-core off-road vehicles, with cumulative sales exceeding 6.5438+million. What is the level of Toyota Land Patrol?

Four words, the first in the world!

Even RAV 4, the originator of the best-selling urban SUV in the global market, will take 26 years to break through this figure. It is conceivable how popular land patrol is in the off-road vehicle industry. Behind the high popularity, in addition to good cross-country ability, there is undoubtedly an extremely reliable quality, which is "not falling off the chain" in popular words.

Friends who care about cross-country culture know that in a cross-country activity, no matter who is the protagonist of cross-country, the role of car protection is often played by land patrol.

As the saying goes, "Mercedes-Benz Big G can take you anywhere, and land patrol can take you to your home anywhere, and bring a big G by the way". These words are not jokes, but true stories. Two years ago, a video about Mercedes-Benz G overturned in Alashan Desert and was finally driven out of the desert by the old Toyota Land Patrol went viral on the Internet. Lu Xun's word of mouth is accumulated in such repeated rescues.

Recently, a well-known Japanese automobile magazine reported that a new generation of Land Patrol will make its debut in April next year, and revealed several key points related to the "prosperity" or "decline" of the new car, whose chassis code is LC300.

Or give up the beam

The first point is that the new car will be built based on TNGA architecture.

In the past two years, Toyota has infiltrated TNGA architecture into every brand-new model, and the flexibility of the new architecture is very high, from the most entry-level A0 car to the top D-class car in the family. There are many models that have changed the TNGA architecture, such as yaris, Corolla, Camry, Crown and Lexus ls.

The arrival of TNGA not only changed the "light" and "loose" chassis texture of Toyota, but also changed everyone's stereotype of Toyota. Even the hundreds of thousands of shopping carts like Corolla are equipped with the word "texture". Although TNGA smells good, there is a hidden problem in this architecture, which is also a "fatal" point for off-road vehicles such as land patrol.

Look at the current TNGA subdivision architecture, the existing TNGA-B, TNGA-C, TNGA-K and TNGA-L architectures. Although these architectures cover a wide range and support front-drive, rear-drive and four-wheel drive layouts, none of them adopt non-loaded body structures.

That is to say, if the new generation of land patrol is built on any of the above structures, it is likely to give up the non-loaded body structure like Land Rover Defender and Mitsubishi Pajero, and change from "uncle" to "aunt".

Cancel V8 self-priming engine

As far as the domestic market is concerned, the power system of cash land patrol is somewhat embarrassing.

Before Lu Xun withdrew from the China market, the entry-level version of 4.0L? The maximum horsepower of V6 gasoline engine is only 275 HP, and the peak torque is less than 400 Nm. Therefore, it is obviously a little difficult to propel this big guy with a net weight of 2.6 tons with this pair of engines.

The most ideal mid-range powertrain model with a 4.6L? V8 engine, gearbox also changed from 5AT to 6AT. But, 4.6L? The starting price of the V8 power version has exceeded 6,543.8+0,000 yuan, which is about 300,000 yuan higher than that of the 4.0L model. The gap between the two is really too high.

Look at the 5.7L imported by parallel imported car dealers? V8 version, the price of bare car is as high as 1.2 million, and the technology of this engine is "old-fashioned". In a few words, it means high fuel consumption and low power.

Therefore, these three groups of power systems with different powers are quite embarrassing.

New Land Patrol 3.5T Dynamic Parameter Table

In the face of this situation, the new car used the trick of "cutting the gordian knot" to cut off all three powertrains and replace them with a 3.5T turbocharged engine, a 3.5L hybrid electric system and a 3.3T diesel engine. In other words, the new generation of Toyota Land Patrol will bid farewell to the era of large-displacement self-priming engines.

Among them, the maximum horsepower of the 3.5T engine may reach 422 horsepower, matching the 10AT gearbox; Is the 3.5L hybrid system Lexus LS? 500h, matched with 4AT+E-CVT gearbox, the comprehensive power of the system reaches 359 horsepower; However, the parameters of the diesel version are temporarily unknown. According to the logic of introducing new cars in the past, the diesel version has a high probability of missing the domestic market.

In addition, Japanese media also said that the four-wheel drive and suspension system of the new generation of land patrol will be upgraded. The author believes that the new land patrol is very likely to replace the current full-time four-wheel drive system with a part-time four-wheel drive system, or even an electric four-wheel drive system.

For a hard-core off-road vehicle, it is unacceptable for consumers to use a part-time four-wheel drive system. Referring to the previous domestic Prado, when the full-time four-wheel drive was replaced by a sub-four-wheel drive, consumers held a "refusal" attitude, and even made a joke that "the part-time four-wheel drive Prado can't turn in the four-wheel drive mode, and the turn will turn over".

In any case, these "bad news" have not yet reached the point where the dust has settled, and fans of Lu Xun need not be too sad. After all, it is a great "good news" that Toyota is willing to upgrade this off-road vehicle. On the other hand, Nissan Toure, a former competitor, had another three years of patchwork.

Toule: it's cold, don't look.

As an old rival of land patrol, Nissan Toure can now be described as "Pingyang falling tiger". Although the parallel imported car market is still a little hot, the terminal price is much lower than that of land patrol. What's more, there was a time when the price of the old Toure in Tianjin Port was lower than that of the beggar's Prado 2700. It was too lonely to mix "million luxury cars" before.

Toure, known as the "new generation" in the past two years, has only adjusted some exterior and interior details, which can only be regarded as a change at best. At present, the price of parallel imported cars is less than 600 thousand. However, in June 5438+February, after the implementation of the National Sixth Emission Policy, the new Toure will bid farewell to the China market completely. Of course, in the global market, Toure has also gone downhill, and Nissan has no intention of updating.

The author's land patrol

Standing in 2020, car companies all over the world are on the cusp of electrification. At that time, the Japanese off-road vehicles with unlimited scenery had gone from bad to worse, the Bobcat Mitsubishi Pajero had declined, and the Nissan Toure had been cold. Only the Toyota Land Patrol series is still insisting. Let's give it a little applause here.

As the owner of Land Cruiser 1: 18, I feel a little proud in my heart.

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