4Runner v Land Cruiser Fuel Grade

There is no way to tell body style from the series. The 40 series came in pickup and wagon, same with the 70 series. All the series we got in the US from the 60 series up were the wagon form.

 

^You must have seen "family tree" diagrams like this before? 40-series pre-dates the branching. 70-series regardless of body style are part of the "heavy duty" series. 55-series and up are part of the "station wagon" series:


The above diagram was made in 2021 for the LC nameplate's 70th anniversary. Some people have since updated it:



Neither the 200- nor the 300-series are part of the "heavy duty" series; they are "station wagons".

 

A better term would be Luxury Series because they all fall under station wagon. Station wagon describes all of these vehicles because they are all vehicles with a fixed roof and rear seats with a back end that doesn't truncate (taper like a sedan). It's about as broad as calling the 200 series part of the SUV series, they're all SUVs.

 

I see this thread has turned into another "3JOH22A against the world" type situation. ROFL.

 

Your perceived distinction between the LS and Continental is not shared by the market, as both models sold equally poorly.

 

The names of the "family tree" branches are official, and reflected in early Toyota documentation. For example:

They're also used by reference sites like: https://toyotatimes.jp/en/spotlights/landcruiser_70th/040.html

Not something you or I would change.

 

By "world" you mean the echo chamber, which doesn't represent the buying public.

 

this would be a better graphic i think or a helper pic to the above

the confusing part is there is a J70 heavy and J70 light

 

And the "J" stands for "Jeep".

 

Usually you can go down octane when using direct injection so I wonder why they call for 91 in some vehicles. Toyota called for 91 years ago with the FJ but then took it out of the manual for whatever reason.

 

technically only the "BJ" series were called "Jeep", the real name was "Toyota Jeep BJ" and it was derived from they stealing/acquiring a bantam GP (willys mb). the "Land Cruiser" name came about due to toyota trying to compete with the "Land Rover" so they played word games and changed "Rover" to "Cruiser"

pretty interesting history from start to current on the whole LC timeline

 

I think he was just pointing out that the "J" in the Land Cruiser chassis codes stands for Jeep. Just like the "B" indicates that it had a B series engine.