Tuesday, 27 February 2018

Land Cruiser 79

I bought a brand new Toyota Land Cruiser 79 Double Cab on 30 January 2018.

Why did I do this?
Well I owned at Land Cruiser 76 Station Wagon since 2012 that was stolen in September 2017. That vehicle was awesome and I dearly miss it.
I've always said that if I had to buy another Cruiser it would be a double cab. It is more versatile as a daily driver as you can use the bakkie part for all sorts of things. So I went and bought a second hand ex Hire Cruiser 79 Double Cab with 150000km on the clock.



It had all the overland gear I could wish for and we went on our December holiday.

But

The vehicle and I never clicked. I realized I would never trust that vehicle with my family out far and away from home, and that would be it's primary purpose.

So on 30 January 2018 I traded it in on exactly the same Cruiser but with 12km on the clock... and it was beige.



I kept all the extras the old Cruiser had. I had the load bin rubberised at Toyota and immediately on delivery went and changed the tyres from the old to the new. The old cruiser has Cooper ST Maxx's which still has many kilometres on them I have first hand experience with how useless the OEM tyres are.


The wife approved: