Obioban's 2005 IR/IR Coupe

[Obioban]

Silver is excellent on the 100 series, but, you should pick up a 200 instead


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Honestly, I really want an 80 series… but my wife insisted on airbags and abs.

I was looking into importing a manual/diesel 100 series, but it’s 2-3x the price and finding a not trashed LHD manual diesel is borderline impossible.

200 series isn’t for me.

[fattycharged]

Honestly, I really want an 80 series… but my wife insisted on airbags and abs.

I was looking into importing a manual/diesel 100 series, but it's 2-3x the price and finding a not trashed LHD manual diesel is borderline impossible.

200 series isn't for me.

Get the 80, its the right choice 😉


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[discoelk]

80s have airbags and ABS. They are quite agricultural coming from the cars in your sig though.

[Obioban]

80s have airbags and ABS. They are quite agricultural coming from the cars in your sig though.

Later 80s do.

I think we have a reasonable compromise at the moment-- 100 as the practical car and she'll be okay with me getting a 70 to go with it down the road (speaking of agricultural).

Really, I unnecessarily threw her under the bus-- for the purposes we're going to be using this, I think the 100 is the best match. This is going to be more practical car than fun car-- the extent of the "fun" will be family overlanding trips. They're not going to be that hard core, with family coming along, and this should be more than enough for that-- and way more comfortable/easy than a 70/80 for the street portions.

I've been researching and test driving the gamut during this decision process. Contenders were...
70 troop carrier
80
100 (and LX470)
200
250
GX460 (J150 prado)
5th gen 4 runner (kind of J150 Prado)

In my estimation, the 100 is kind of bang in the middle of all the contenders. And the LX version adds xenons and a nicer stereo :P

The 250 almost happened because it's cool looking and... it would be nice to have a new car. But, in the end I don't really want to own a car with that level of complexity.

Plus, the more I learn about the 250, the most comprised it seems to secretly be:

Side note for anyone thinking about getting into this at all-- the above YouTube channel is bar none THE best engineering driven off roading YouTube channel I've found. He's semi local to me, so hoping to chat with him at some point.

His videos are consistently great. And, like modded sports cars.... SOOOOOO many people ruin their SUV with "upgrades".

[Gt4]

I like his videos too! Didn't knew about the different axle on 250 vs Gx550 before watching this vid.

Thing is, most people buying a new 250 won't do offroad/rock crawling with it for the first 3-5 years! Most people overlanding is going to remote camp site with moderate offroad difficulty.

To take the LC250 off-road (due to low ground clearence), I think it needs 34-35'', skid plates for engine/transmission/transfer case/fuel tank/diff and also rock rails. No need for lift kit or suspension upgrades.

I love mine as a daily so far. The things I hate are the small fuel tank & stupid Toyota safety 3.0 electronics.


Ineos Grenadier would be really nice but will wait to see if they are still around in 2030... Love the B58 engine tho!

[Obioban]

I like his videos too! Didn't knew about the different axle on 250 vs Gx550 before watching this vid.

Thing is, most people buying a new 250 won't do offroad/rock crawling with it for the first 3-5 years! Most people overlanding is going to remote camp site with moderate offroad difficulty.

To take the LC250 off-road (due to low ground clearence), I think it needs 34-35'', skid plates for engine/transmission/transfer case/fuel tank/diff and also rock rails. No need for lift kit or suspension upgrades.

I love mine as a daily so far. The things I hate are the small fuel tank & stupid Toyota safety 3.0 electronics.


Ineos Grenadier would be really nice but will wait to see if they are still around in 2030... Love the B58 engine tho!

Agreed on all counts-- were I/we DDing it, I think 250 is where we would have ended up.

And, yeah-- possibly temporary companies are scary to buy from.

[Obioban]

Updates:
bought the Land Cruiser.
CORE One built and printing.

everything is as good or better than I expected.