New Toyota Land Cruiser (Prado) 2018 review - see just how tough it is!
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
- The Toyota Land Cruiser, also known as the Prado, is a tough off-roader. There's a reason why it's THE go-to choice for so many drivers who spend their time in the wilderness. To prove just how tough the latest version really is, Toyota invited me to Namibia to try it out. It's one of my roughest in-depth reviews ever!
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No other car manufacturer gonna give there cars to journalists and tell them to bash them as hard as they can through a long trip. Toyota really trusts there cars capability and dependability. Respect
Ford F-150 raptor
@@okay.9929 Heck No
@Ackj 375718 have you ever owned a ford?
@Ackj 375718 where is it now?😂
@Ackj 375718 ha ha
An English man in a Japanese car, driving in Namibia, with Belgian numberplates and a Russian language configuration. A man of the world 😁
And whats the problem with that?😐
@@franga7870 there is absolutely no problem 🙂 I've just listed all the country's, just for a laugh 🙂
@@dylanos3 Ok buddy
mr Worldwide!
Just what i thought
The Prado is a beauty of a car. It doesn't deserve the title of "Watered" down Land Cruiser, this car more than holds its own and should be esteemed for a 4x4. You can absolutely never go wrong with this in your garage!
I have a landcruiser prado 1999 and i love it!
Whats watered down its the same as the hilux. If anything you prefer a shorter wheelbase ans smaller car for offroading.
If Toyota calls it a landcruiser. It's a landcruiser
Did not get it
@@dashifoods3231 he trusts what Toyota says. He is the perfect consumer.
@@DubSalvation It's a Land Cruiser because it is a Land Cruiser lol. It's a smaller, similarly capable, highly cost-effective LC with a smaller price tag. Where I am from, the original LC has such a bloated price, that you're way better off buying the LC Prado.
Spoiler alert: If Toyota calls it's a land cruiser. It's a land rover
@@rolutarboi1306 no
The Arabs say if you want to go into the desert, get a 4x4. If you want to come back, get a Land Cruiser.
Its Toyota that says that and its repeated in many countries. Yet of all the Land Cruisers and Land/Range Rovers I've owned, the only one ever to break down and leave me stranded away from home was my first Land Cruiser, an 80 series in the early 1990's.
The Zanzibarbarian its the larg v8 Land cruiser tho, not the Prado
(Namibians aren't arabs)
macaron3141592653 - Who said they were?
nope!!! land cruiser big one is multi purpose, desert, road, rock, snow pretty much everything
I own an older model with the legendary 1GR 4 liter petrol engine, it's just the ultimate everyday car you'll ever need. A poor man's Range Rover, but 1000 times more reliable.
I would say a thinking man's 4x4, do you agree?
Mat is one lucky fella
-gets to drive is amazing places
-gets to drive amazing cars
-gets to drift them
Wow
Car Wow
Well he worked for it
Still blows my mind that my last name is the name of a car! Haha
Thanks god it’s not Subaru Brat :D
Congrats that's actually sick!
I heard him talk about this car in one of his new vids on the defender and I was like “hold up that’s my last name!”
Haha oh yeah 😁
If only your first name was Carmen...
every governor in Namibia 🇳🇦 has a land cruiser ! For the love of Toyota! # namibdesert
Malawian ministers too
I have both land cruisers
Ghana too
Every Bangladeshi Politicians too
Did you just Say Namibia 🇳🇦 that’s my country, it’s a beautiful country 😍
Yep.... proud to see a SADC country on CarWow
Lol you dont have the ocean south Africa for life
Namibia 💪💪💪
Wat are you talking about. We do have an ocean
@@asandur2887 They do have an Ocean.
Driving in sand is an art. you dont need that speed, you have to know your vehicle capabilities, deflate the tire to 5-15 psi and you can move and stop much easier and even climb hills
Yeh. He was waying just too fast unnecessarily. Keeping a momentum does not means going insanely fast.
in 5 psi you can lose your tires, 16-20 is enough :)
The tailgate opens like that because in other countries when you get the larger petrol engine, you get the spare wheel mounted there so because of that the tailgate is too heavy to open upwards.
Good job, as always Matt! I really enjoy these longer reviews, please do the normal reviews longer as well.
And the Land Cruiser is a beast, in a good sense.
One of the few real SUVs out there. Not a crossover like Audi Q7, BMW X5 or Volvo V90
Espen There's no suck thing called "real SUVs" or "real car" A car is just a car
The AudiQ7 could still accomplish a lot. Probably much of what the and cruiser can. It’s more set up for comfort and luxury though as no one uses them for off road driving but it’s tested for it. It’s not a cross over at all. A Land Rover is far better than this crap
Chatta290 Rover guy😎
Jeep GC in it's latest trailhawk spec would do the job well
Chatta290 q7 is overreted vw shit
Hope you enjoyed your stay in Namibia 🇳🇦. Proud Namibian here 💪🏾💪🏾
Namibia is beautiful
In Australia Range Rover is king.....if you're a woman or middle aged man who fanticises about the receptionist and dreams up extravagant scenarios where he gets to drop her home after a work do in Sydney city.
Anywhere else, towing caravans or horses, crossing croc infested rivers, thousands of kms of corrugations, sand, bulldust, rock, 45 c outside, expected to last 1 million kms with basic maintenance in the back yard and maybe pull a road train or two out of a boggy dirt road, its Land cruiser.
00 Prado 380,000km still going strong!
The Prophecy Cat "if you're a woman" pompous much
"Australia Range Rover is king...." ... If you go to a garage then you can see your king suffering with electronic sensors, Vacuum Pump issues, over 200,000km engine replaced, AC compressor gone and many more issues.
UAE Range Rover means death sentence after 100,000km
The Prophecy Cat ...so true - Oz has more ‘Trols & Landcruisers than ‘Roos - most Range Rovers are paperweights 😄
Anjitha Senarath - The Prophecy Cat is actually putting down Range Rovers and praising Land Cruisers. And you are right about Range Rovers.
Cop : Roll down your window
Matt: Car's not hot
Charles Tosh dead meme
Orang 100 likes disagree with u
FlameRays i liked it too
AC
2 + 2 = 4 wheels quick maths
Just confirms that you have one of the best jobs in the world!
I have never seen him sooo happyyy!!
He just tasted that capability and he was speaking right out of the heart whe n he was saying this car is tough.
Watch him drive Suzuki Jimny 🤣
Good to see you in Africa, close to my country...South Africa!!!! I have been following this channel and will continue to watch on the daily basis. Big Up!!!
The legend of automotive legends
+Aiman Rahman Me? Or the car? Lol
...both? :P
Aiman Rahman I
well, doug demuro is also a good contender for that :p
Goddamn it I’m sold!
Welcome to Namibia I watch your reviews all the time, good to know you visited my country 👍
It is good to see a video from Namibia, Mat. Thanks :-)
Now I see why it's one of the most popular cars in Siberia 😄
Thanks for reviewing such a legendary car
You drive the Land Cruiser while your Range Rover is in the shop.
so, daily.
So you may as well buy a Landcruiser...
Your Range Rover will sit in the shop for the next 10 years
Hahahaha
rabit818
Says the guy who owns none
Wow!! I'm from namibia!! Hope you enjoyed your stay 😃😃😃😃
Couldn't wait for the video since my first glimpse on twitter.Hope you enjoyed your stay in the 'Land of the Brave'.
you should review one of those old toyota hilux, and for african market they come with optional machine gun on the roof apparently
Toyota Insurgent Pickup Custom
That sounds cool. You can drive around as well as shoot.
Selling like hot cakes from the Sudanese showroom
Dariune oo
Its very false. SMH
Refreshing to see an off-road car reviewed where it belongs. My dad has one from 99. Made 5000km to Morocco so I have very good impression of what is capable
Finally a reasonable real demo review on these new 2018’s...come down to australia and do a demo here...
I have this car in my garage and it's amazing .like ,it can go anywhere. LITERALLY
proof?
Saw this on your Instagram, I'm glad the video is finally here 🤩
I would never compare a Land Cruiser with a Land Rover that falls apart when almost brand new. My neighbor has had a Land Cruiser for 22 years and it's still going strong. He owns a small company that cuts wood in some remote forests so it gets driven off-road and abused a lot. He even crashed it once and destroyed the front bumper. Despite 22 years of abuse, it's still going strong. How long would a Land Rover last?
Well I had a Land Rover working on the farm and towing 3.5 tons regularly for 22 years and 12,000 hours of use, which was equivalent to around 350,000 road miles, and another few for around 10 years each.
I've also got a Land Cruiser 100 1HD FT-E, bought new, which is 20 years old in September this year and has nearly 200,000 miles on the clock. I'm off now to hitch up the 14ft triple axle trailer to it and will tow two loads of 3.5 tons each, approximately 56 miles. A job that the old Land Rover 110 HiCap pickup used to do. A job now shared with a Ford Ranger.
Protector of the Republic basically the same
Call us when a Land Cruiser is able to cross the Empty Quarter.
We have a 13 yr old landrover and it's still going. ok not 22years yet but hasnt broken down even once yet so...
Talked to my friend with the Prado/90/Colorado this afternoon. His was new in 2003 and is currently in his workshop with its rusted out rear axle removed, waiting for a replacement off a crash damaged one.
I was wondering when Matt's gonna make a turn in Namibia! Great video 👍
Love Namibia would love to visit
From Kenya
Everyone is under the impression that this is the original Land cruiser when its just the Prado variant. In Australia this is the baby brother to the real land cruiser
Same here in South Africa.
Gonzarelli no landcruiser lives up to its name as much as the 70 series, screw the 200!
What do you mean by "real" Land Cruiser? They have the regular Land Cruiser (aka Toyota Prado) and the larger Toyota 200 SUV. Land Cruiser is a range including both suvs
The "big" landcruiser looks ugly - the smaller one looks cool. In ireland its just branded Land cruiser. I am on my third one now since 2006.
Baby brother yes, but you get a lot more car for your dollar.
Hey carwow I am watching you from Namibia never thought you'd set foot here.
Great to see Mat in our neck of the woods!
I love this guys enthusiasm
If you call this a Toyota Land Cruiser (without adding the word Prado to it) here in the UAE, people will literally laugh at you. Here, the Prado is considered just a lower-end alternative to the Land Cruiser, and it never gets the respect or esteem of its higher tier brother. The Land Cruiser (the non-Prado one), on the other hand, is on a whole new level of recognition and popularity. People consider it the King of 4×4s (Patrol fans will surely disagree tho).
Yes I agree. The 120-150 series Prado is a pale imitation of the 100-200 series. Unfortunately they have stopped importing the 200 series into the UK because it is uncompetitive in our conditions with the Range Rover and it is just too big and bulky for the room available inside for passengers. Both big and 'small' Land Cruiser are not actually very roomy inside. My Ford Ranger has as much room in the second row are does my 100 series Cruiser. The cruiser also lacks payload capacity while the smaller Cruiser lacks towing capacity and power in the overwhelmingly popular diesel form [here in Europe]
Rehaan Khan jeep still much better
Rehaan Khan we don't have to not agree, because the Patrol VVEL DIG is clearly the class leader lol.
AJ Thomas Well! Only if we had forests here in the desert-land, LOL! Size really doesn't matter too much in deserts. All roads are also more than wide enough here, so the LC really does win by a long shot, not accounting the price-to-performance ratio of course. The LC is a hell lot of money!
Mr Kruger comparing jeep(rebadged fiat) to the ultimate Monster Toyota LC? Go sleep.
Happened to randomly re-watch this video exactly 3 years after it was uploaded
As a Namibian thanks Mat for coming over luv CARWOW
8:10 Namibian chap is best chap
Just to give an idea how strong and capable this car is..At 5:14 even the camera sound starts vibrating but the SUV still goes strong❤
We love our Toyota's here in Namibia. Beautiful video
I really loved this video. Please do an updated one with the new 2022 Toyota land cruiser and Land cruiser Prado. Thanks
Most beautiful car I’ve ever seen. I love it🤪
We did a self-drive safari around the middle of nowhere in a convoy of 79 series and we never got stuck. They are incredible. Can u review some of the older land cruisers?
carwow in Namibia!!! great welcome!!!
you are full of humor. love your review. hope you can do a review on toyota harrier pls.
Test the 200 series !
felt like you really enjoyed it out there
I’m so glad watching this knowing I’m Namibian
The brand Toyota is enough to convince me if I want my great great great great great grand children to drive a classic car in a perfect condition
@ 2:06 The thing I love about this video is that you also do the bit where you get to do the high speed off road cursing... Which I don"t see in most of the offloading videos out there
Glad to see you on the "right" side of the car while driving ;)
1:53
Those are not Seals.
Those are Sea Lions.
Forsooth Dr. Watson...
@@Twongz_does_anything You don't want to learn things correctly? Wow. You must have been terrible at school.
Stunning review! Southern Africa is a great place!
Ooh Amazing Carwow in Africa good off-road beasts of the Savannah.. endless possibilities.
Matt > top gear
a.k. 4tee7 BBC should employ him, far better than the current crew
a.k. 4tee7 BBC should stop calling the new show "Top Gear". Lame gear sounds better
It wears dirt and mud with pride. Absolutely love it
He was definitely near Henties Bay beautiful town. And that gravel hard road going to Spitskoppe, one of Namibias greatest landmarks...Proud to be a Namibian..
Have a same model land cruiser and i love it..
I’ve got a 2004 ‘prado’. 3 litre 4 cyclinder and is sweet as a nut. Lc5 model fully loaded that has - in my opinion - aged well. The touch screen car tainment system works well. Relaxing to drive too and tows well
Tough job you have! "Welcome to Namibia!"
Nearly had to sell my new Landcruiser here recently - could not get insurance for the commercial "van" version we have in Ireland so had to look at the new BMW X5 as a possible option. Even with all its luxury I still preferred my Landcruiser. I don't need a head up display or a rear door that opens at the push of a button on the key fob. Got the insurance for the Landcruiser sorted eventually - so I am a happy man again now.
Definitely one of the toughest cars of all time, have a 2001 model, it did the school run when I was in high school, it's lived long enough to do the school run for my kids too!
I’m now onto my second Prado. They are fabulous - solid, built like a brick 💩 🏠, indestructible and super comfortable too. When I lived in the desert 🇶🇦 there was a saying: if you want to get into the desert drive a Range Rover, if you want to get out the desert drive a Landcruiser. Job done…
In Namibia, shouting “Power! Power! Power!”... reminds me of something... #TheGrandTour 😂
Jezza
“Speed and power”-Jeremy Clarkson
@@beinghomosapien563 did anyone summon me?
I am glad you liked it in Namibia.... I follow your videos from the Land of the brave aka Namibia
This video particularly is different, its not a review but rather a vlogger video where he shares his fun with the audience
En 1997 compré un Land Rover Discovery nuevo. Lo vendí a los cuatro meses por problemas mecánicos. El mismo año compré el mi Land Cruiser … y lo tengo todavía. El año pasado le cambié el embrague original.
Proudly Namibian. Cant believe I didn't meet this brilliant man!
Mat seems extremely excited driving this land cruiser.
This is significant review because you focused on the functionality and durability of toyota, such as being able to get to places comfy and safetly, rather than how a person looks when they ride, hard plastic, cup and banana holders, cheap buttons etc.
That's my country❤️❤️
I love this lc prado ❤❤
Thanks for coming to my country, I hope you liked the experience here... Would've come along with my golf 6🤣🤣
Es el coche de mis sueños ojalá algún día pueda tener uno y recorrer parte del planeta son verdaderas máquinas sin límite !!
I like how the leading car is still the old Toyota. :3
Namibia!!!! 🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦❤️❤️❤️
Hope you enjoyed your stay in our wonderful Namibia!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️
love your videos
I think my friend with his Lada Niva would laugh at all that tech :P
@Matt there is also a Fortuner I can see along with Prado everywhere... Can you do a review about Fortuner SW4
Agreed
Is it not just a Hilux with wagon body and coil springs instead of leaf
Can't believe he was in my country. 😊
Wish I could have met with you man.
Pleasure coming to my Country.. Namibia. am proud
4:05 Look at the size of the shock for the boot!!!
0:57 poor Fortuner 😂
But still fortuner is still very capable suv. I think toyota should bring it in my country US
Fortuner should be in the us
@@alexcart5116 yeah i dont know why toyota fortuner and prado is not available to sell in the US!?
@@markkevinapalisok3680 it was about six months ago when I bought toyota Tacoma MT from Stevinson Toyota West in Colorado, I asked about land cruiser prado and fortuner that why they won't have these SUVs in US, they replied that LEXUS GX is Toyota land cruiser prado with Lexus brand, Toyota will just continue with lexus GX and may be they will discontinue the real land cruiser 200 series and continue with Lexus LX570, for fortuner they had no idea about this car.
@@alexcart5116 lexua is luxury than toyota i know prado and landcruiser had a same design with lexus
Now I love @carwow even more..
this has been my dream car for a while now, i know dream cars are supposed to be more expensive and unattainable but I just can't justify this cost to my spouse to actually get this for our everyday use...
1:44 the rare sea doggo
not that rare tbh
idkwuisp 76 they’re rare in texas
3:58 I ❤namba
Thanks for coming to Namibia Carwow, come again bro
2008 model year is still one of my all time favorites cars... Especially the coupe version..
Namibia is beautiful ♥️
best offroad car ever！
Amazing adventure there . can't believe u were in ma town swakopmund
Never seen him that much smiling and enjoying. Land cruiser is a tough bastard suv
10:05 you point to the Russian language. These Toyotas are best sellers in Russia. They are durable and comfortable enough. I am not surprised by the language.