2025 Toyota Land Cruiser

Toyota’s Land Cruiser wins kudos as one of the brand’s most capable and iconic nameplates. With its adventuresome driving chops and storied reliability, owners have taken it far afield and back again for decades. Its capability matches its handsome looks and iconic styling. There are no changes for the 2025 model year. The high bar Toyota set years ago becomes reimagined with rugged elegance for a contemporary buyer.

The 2025 Toyota Land Cruiser is a carryover from the 2024 model year.

There’s nothing quite like the Land Cruiser, but a variety of competitors — with a range of starting prices — include the Jeep Grand Cherokee and Wrangler, the Ford Bronco, and the Land Rover Defender. The Land Cruiser’s more well-to-do cousin, the Lexus GX, starts closer to $65,000.

Before buying a Land Cruiser, check the Kelley Blue Book Fair Purchase Price to know what you should really pay. The Land Cruiser retains its value famously well, and we fully expect that to continue. Recouping more money when you sell a vehicle can mean a bigger down payment and lower monthly payments on your next one.

Under the Land Cruiser’s hood, you’ll find Toyota’s i-Force Max powertrain, a formidable turbocharged 4-cylinder engine paired with an electric motor, generating more torque than the outgoing model’s big ol’ V8. We found it pulled well and delivered power in a smooth and linear fashion, helping to establish this as the Land Cruiser of the 21st century. Steering and brakes feel similarly crisp and contemporary. This new iteration significantly refines the relatively lumbering and disconnected driving feel of the previous-generation LC.

Every Land Cruiser includes full-time 4-wheel drive (4WD) with high/low modes plus center- and rear-locking differentials. So, buying the base model doesn’t penalize shoppers looking for a rugged SUV. The new Land Cruiser easily handles off-road trails, sand dunes, rocks, and ruts with aplomb. We took full advantage of the off-road cruise control, Multi-Terrain Select, and Multi-Terrain Monitor systems, all of which complement the impressive hardware to make off-roading even less taxing and more satisfying.

Fuel Economy

The 2025 Toyota Land Cruiser is rated to return 23 mpg in mixed city/highway driving. By comparison, the 2025 Land Rover Defender 110 sees a 19-mpg combined rating from the EPA. Jeep’s Wrangler comes a bit closer with a 21-mpg combined number.

Unlike its predecessor, which offered seating for up to eight, the new 2-row Land Cruiser only seats five. So, you might have to be selective about who you take on your wild adventures. It gets an open greenhouse, which means stellar visibility. We love the retro-esque big, physical knobs and switches for functions including HVAC and volume. When it comes to passenger space, even your tallest friends relegated to the second row won’t have much to complain about when it comes to stretching their legs. The storage for items up front won’t disappoint, either. An 8-inch infotainment touchscreen comes standard, with a 12.3-inch screen available on higher trims. However, with a starting price approaching $60,000, we think the larger screen should be standard equipment. Overall, Toyota’s designers succeeded in creating a sufficiently modern cabin while still comfortable and ready for action.

There are two distinct front fascia looks to this latest iteration of the Land Cruiser. The base model 1958 sports round headlights, which tip Toyota’s cap to the original Land Cruiser that debuted in the United States in, that’s correct, 1958. The midtier Land Cruiser Land Cruiser trim, no, we don’t like that name either, gets rectangular headlights like later iterations. We get the nod here but aren’t fans and prefer the traditional round peepers. The range-topping First Edition again gets the round headlights. Other standard equipment includes a roof rack and rock rails and offers two-tone paint schemes. As did their predecessors, Land Cruisers feature the Toyota name spelled out across the grille in upper-case letters.

Smaller than its former generation, which took a 3-year hiatus before resurfacing in 2024, the Land Cruiser now matches up closer to the Jeep Grand Cherokee. Its new, more diminutive size and shorter wheelbase make it optimal for off-roading. It also sees a shorter front overhang for an improved approach angle. It sure looks like it can conquer the tundra, outback, savannah, or wherever else a Land Cruiser driver wants to go.

Multi-Terrain Monitor
Sometimes, the difference between conquering an obstacle and calling for help is a matter of inches. The Land Cruiser’s available Multi-Terrain Monitor uses cameras to let you negotiate underbody terrain more precisely and confidently.

Use your phone as your key
You can lock, unlock, and start the Land Cruiser with your phone. The car senses your phone just like a key, so you don’t need to take it out of your pocket. You can even “send” a key to a friend.

Crawl Control
This low-speed, off-road cruise control lets you modulate speed with just the brake pedal instead of dancing back and forth between it and the accelerator pedal. We found it so much easier to be smooth and precise with power delivery, which freed up more focus for steering.

Proactive Driving Assist
This feature is one of those you need to experience to appreciate. In everyday driving, the system can apply subtle steering and braking to slow you down for an upcoming curve or help keep you at a comfortable distance from vehicles, cyclists, and pedestrians. It makes some of the same small adjustments you’d make and lightens your load just a little bit.

Stabilizer Disconnect Mechanism
The Land Cruiser offers a disconnecting front stabilizer bar for more serious off-roading. A push of a button frees up the front suspension, helping keep both front wheels on the ground while traversing extremely uneven terrain.

Lane Tracing Assist
On longer highway trips, especially, we’re happy to let a vehicle shoulder as much of the driving as it can. We’ve found Toyota’s self-steering capabilities to be among the most accurate and confidence-inspiring.

On the combustion side of the new Land Cruiser’s hybrid drivetrain is a turbocharged 2.4-liter 4-cylinder engine. Adding an electric motor results in a total output of 326 horsepower and 465 lb-ft of torque. This energy is sent through an 8-speed automatic transmission to a sophisticated full-time 4-wheel-drive system. Maximum towing ability is 6,000 pounds.

3-Year/36,000-Mile Warranty

The 2025 Land Cruiser’s basic new-vehicle warranty is for three years or 36,000 miles, whichever happens first, with five years or 60,000 miles of powertrain coverage. These are usual terms from mainstream manufacturers. Hybrid-related components have a warranty of eight years or 100,000 miles; the hybrid battery is covered for 10 years or 150,000 miles. Toyota also includes free maintenance for the first two years or 25,000 miles, as well as two years of roadside assistance with unlimited mileage.

Safety

Standard safety equipment includes forward collision warning with automatic emergency braking and pedestrian/cyclist/motorcyclist detection, lane-keeping/lane-tracing assistance, adaptive cruise control, and blind-spot monitoring with rear cross-traffic alert.