very interesting

[sleepydad]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/2017-Toyot...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

 

[Hepar]

"This vehicle cannot stay in the US - There is no exception to this. This vehicle is for export only, and I need customs paperwork showing it has left the USA. What you do with it afterwards is completely up to you."

 

[MN4runnerman]

I shall switch my residence to Canada then buy it. Then I’ll drive it back over the border and hide it in the woods of northern mn. Perfect plan just need to find some cash and a house across the border and become a citizen of another country and then say whoops and change my mind and then probably be investigated for some reason

 

[sleepydad]

"This vehicle cannot stay in the US - There is no exception to this. This vehicle is for export only, and I need customs paperwork showing it has left the USA. What you do with it afterwards is completely up to you."

This is part I find interesting

This specific vehicle was used for baseline EPA testing and has seen little road use. It is only being sold as it's testing exemption expires in July of 2019, and it is being replaced with 2019 model for further testing.

 

[jgue467]

Very reasonable price! :cowboy:

 

[gamefreakgc]

That vehicle is surprisingly ugly. I thought it would look a lot better than it does, guess that's the difference between world markets and US markets. I don't think that would sell very well here.

 

[I_bRAD]

Wonder how hard it would be to register it in Canada. I imagine the first hurdle would be coming up with 70 grand.

 

[Rancho5]

My wife and I spent a month in Western Australia a couple of years back, going where I lived 30+ years ago.

Here's a few snaps. Soooo many 4 cyl turbo diesels.

 

[Quantumkiwi]

That vehicle is surprisingly ugly. I thought it would look a lot better than it does, guess that's the difference between world markets and US markets. I don't think that would sell very well here.

I personally think it looks better than any US Landcruisers, and would buy a used one in a heartbeat if I could import it legally.

 

[onemanarmy]

This vehicle has been discussed for over a year at ih8mud.com

its shady at best

 

[gamefreakgc]

I personally think it looks better than any US Landcruisers, and would buy a used one in a heartbeat if I could import it legally.

It looks very much like the mid 90's Hilux. I just would think after 20 years, they'd go for a new look is all. If it came between the 2017 Land Cruiser and a Hilux, I'd just go for the Hilux and save roughly $50,000 lol.

 

[Mark_BC]

Vewy vewy inwesting

Wonder how hard it would be to register it in Canada. I imagine the first hurdle would be coming up with 70 grand.

You can't, it has to be at least 15 years old. That's good because we don't have competition from Americans who have to wait 25. I'm trying to get a HZJ78 between 99 and 03 over. I almost got one from Nicaragua but didn't jump on it fast enough.

I think a lifted Troopy is the best looking vehicle out there.

 

[Rancho5]

When we were in Western Australia we flew up to Bali. TONS of old land cruisers in perfect shape. I’ve looked into importing a 20 year old Toyota diesel from Australia its still too expensive. From Bali too

 

[T.A.Kirk]

That vehicle is surprisingly ugly. I thought it would look a lot better than it does, guess that's the difference between world markets and US markets. I don't think that would sell very well here.

They'd sell like crazy, once the market was educated to them. These trucks are incredibly durable and reliable--There's a reason all those Canadian mines import those suckers the way they do.

Part of the problem with the US market is that the Japanese executives at a lot of the manufacturers are convinced that they know the market, and that the market is fat, happy, and more concerned about luxury bling than long-term durability. If the idjits at DOT and the EPA hadn't have distorted the market the way they started back in the 1970s with the CAFE, odds are that we'd still have the big solid sedans and station wagons that our grandparents were buying from the 1940s on. Unfortunately, they thought that they could mandate everyone going into smaller cars, and there's a certain market segment that just can't, or won't--Which is why everyone shifted into the truck/SUV market, and started demanding they be fitted out like the big cars they could no longer buy. Which is also why the Japanese are convinced that the market over here would never buy the 90-series Land Cruisers--They're flat-out work trucks built for durability with only a nod to comfort.

It's a lot like the deal with the four-door Frontier and Tacoma--For years and years, the US-native executives at Nissan and Toyota were telling the Japanese execs back in Japan that they could sell the same four-door trucks that were all over the Third World in the US, but the Japanese were convinced that they'd never sell well enough in the US market to justify bringing them in. Cue Carlos Ghosn taking over Nissan, and somewhere in there that decision got either ignored or reversed; the stories vary. Shortly after the four-door Frontier started selling so hard that they couldn't keep them on the lot, Toyota got the four-door pickup truck religion, too.

I think the Land Cruiser and the Nissan Patrol in their non-luxury boat versions would sell reasonably well, here in the US--I mean, why the hell would you spend all the money rebuilding an old truck to SFA and all the rest for off-roading, when you could go down to Toyota and plunk down the money for something like the truck on this Craigslist ad? There's a reason these things are the support vehicles for things like the Dakar Rally, and that set of reasons would likely sell them to similarly-inclined US drivers as well.

 

[Mark_BC]

I haven't seen any of these and I work in a mine in Canada. Only Ford and Chevy.

 

[cblock406]

They'd sell like crazy, once the market was educated to them. These trucks are incredibly durable and reliable--There's a reason all those Canadian mines import those suckers the way they do.

Part of the problem with the US market is that the Japanese executives at a lot of the manufacturers are convinced that they know the market, and that the market is fat, happy, and more concerned about luxury bling than long-term durability. If the idjits at DOT and the EPA hadn't have distorted the market the way they started back in the 1970s with the CAFE, odds are that we'd still have the big solid sedans and station wagons that our grandparents were buying from the 1940s on. Unfortunately, they thought that they could mandate everyone going into smaller cars, and there's a certain market segment that just can't, or won't--Which is why everyone shifted into the truck/SUV market, and started demanding they be fitted out like the big cars they could no longer buy. Which is also why the Japanese are convinced that the market over here would never buy the 90-series Land Cruisers--They're flat-out work trucks built for durability with only a nod to comfort.

It's a lot like the deal with the four-door Frontier and Tacoma--For years and years, the US-native executives at Nissan and Toyota were telling the Japanese execs back in Japan that they could sell the same four-door trucks that were all over the Third World in the US, but the Japanese were convinced that they'd never sell well enough in the US market to justify bringing them in. Cue Carlos Ghosn taking over Nissan, and somewhere in there that decision got either ignored or reversed; the stories vary. Shortly after the four-door Frontier started selling so hard that they couldn't keep them on the lot, Toyota got the four-door pickup truck religion, too.

I think the Land Cruiser and the Nissan Patrol in their non-luxury boat versions would sell reasonably well, here in the US--I mean, why the hell would you spend all the money rebuilding an old truck to SFA and all the rest for off-roading, when you could go down to Toyota and plunk down the money for something like the truck on this Craigslist ad? There's a reason these things are the support vehicles for things like the Dakar Rally, and that set of reasons would likely sell them to similarly-inclined US drivers as well.

No chance anything that looks like that would sell well here for $70k, add another $7k if you live in a state with sales tax.

 

[Roamed YT]

I haven't seen any of these and I work in a mine in Canada. Only Ford and Chevy.

You're working at the wrong mine. HVC? Gibraltar? Mount Polley? Copper Mountain? You're not going to see them at any open pit.

You've got to go underground for these bad boys... We've got 70 series troopies underground up here at Minto and Tungsten. I did my last tour underground at Tungsten in one (that was in 2014 though...)

Inco / Vale or Falconbridge / Xstrata imports many of them. In fact I think there's a dealer in Ontario or Quebec that actually stocks them for exactly this purpose.

As for that 200-series... I'm in Canada. I'm sure I could find a home for it. I know the mileage says 14XXX miles, but the wear on the D/S door trim, shifter and dash, along with the AutoZone battery say otherwise...