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Originally Posted by Jetboy
If those are correct - I'm not in love with the design. Looks like a truck they had to configure into an SUV on a budget to me. The design language doesn't work for me. I hope it's just a render and they did a better job in real life. The hood is too long. The windshield is too sloped and roughly 40% of the vehicle length is wasted by that ungainly front design. So the passenger compartment looks like it got smaller despite the longer wheelbase. Rear door windows are about 25% smaller than the 5th gen because they pushed the seat position so far back and rear doors are so small. Overall, to me, it sure looks like a big step back. Classic CALTY output - compromise for the sake of compromise. If this is real - I guess the LC250 has more chance of success than I thought it would. Feels like they intentionally nerfed the design to make room for the LC. Bummer.
The hardware side sounds like a nice update.
They already had this:
Hard to accept that this is an upgrade:
According to that it shares the same 112" wheelbase and length overall as the LC250. This looks almost unusable: (So it must have a 3rd row?)
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They shrunk the 2nd row doors and the quarter panel windows. Looks like they did this because of the enlarged wheel wells to accommodate 33" tires. IMO this was a bad trade off. That second door is closer to the one on the FJ which was worthless. They traded a lot for a wheel option that only a small percentage of prospective buyers would use.
