Is The New Toyota Land Cruiser a Towing Champ or Chump?

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[windrider]

I don't care which manufacturer, when you plug in the 7 pin, your trailer brakes should work, just set the gain.

[matthewgaines]

If you plug in a trailer, the default assumption is you want to tow. They should at a minimum set the controller to turn on.

[robertaston]

As an electrical engineer I have to say that it is quite trivial to make the vehicle able to detect whether or not the trailer you just plugged in has electric brakes wired to the connector. The vehicle should automatically detect the brakes and turn on the controller. Pretty insane that it is disabled from the factory.

[gregkocher]

You weren't too harsh. Toyota should take some notes from this review. The plug placement is odd, the need to set up the brake controller is annoying and overly complex.

[Mike-miyw]

I can’t wrap my head around all the plastic covers on the hitch. What the heck 😂

[coryrood]

Not too harsh, but if you are consistently towing, the LC wasn't the right vehicle to begin with.

[seansaxon]

Toyota went from notoriously lacking in tech engineering in favor of reliability and ease of use to over engineered, unnecessary, and overly complicated.

[MrBull-zcxt]

That Land Cruiser is not worth the money.

[PROutdoors]

As an owner of the new LC I must say I agree with the points in this video. Towing was clearly an afterthought on it.

Thankfully I don’t really tow with mine so these issues aren’t that important to me but things like the simple-to-use software shown on the GM would been nice for them to add for the occasional times I do want to tow.

[tallboy]

In Australia that vehicle is known as a Prado and essentially apart from looks and the addition of a heavy useless battery it is the same as the outgoing car.

[andreww]

Towing is very obviously an after thought on this. Toyota knows Land Cruiser owners seldomly tow. That said, don't offer the hardware and features if you're just going to half a$$ it.

[rdpig]

That's poorly setup compared to their competition.

[remembermorrison]

That tow plug setup is terrible. Right by the exhaust, yikes. I worry on a hot day driving, it could melt or degrade your trailer wiring.

[AmmarMalik]

Toyota finally updated their software and infotainment, so where they were about 20 years behind competition before, they are down to 10 now.

[brandonsailor]

We tow an Escape 19 camper with our LandCruiser. It weighs in about 4, 000lbs. We just completed over 5, 250 miles up the east coast into Canada including through some steep mountains. I’m not a huge fan of the 7-pin placement and I’d like a larger fuel tank to increase range. I also agree when you plug in your trailer the brake controller should at least pop up asking you for your trailer options. Otherwise though we loved towing with the LC. There’s a half plastic cover you can put on the hitch area that looks and functions well. I didn’t have any trouble with the tow hooks but they could be a littler easier to access. The torque and power were really nice, and stopping wasn’t an issue. The best feature is that we can use the 2, 400 watt inverter to run our camping trailer when we don’t have hookups. We used it to run the AC a few times when it was a little warm. The truck was very comfortable for the trip and overall we really enjoyed it. Our mpg was anywhere from 9.9 mpg to 14mpg per tank. The LC may not be the perfect tow vehicle, but it does other things really well that make it a great vehicle to travel in, it surely doesn’t suck towing.

[scotturich]

Andre takes pride in towing as he is the resident expert at TFL and he understands the limitations of a vehicle and never complains about towing tech so for him to say something in a video then it must of have been bad

[andrewshenton]

Video is great as usual but this was eye opening, can’t believe Toyota design team did that?appharently none of them towe, ever

[Cloud]

What is the benefit of leaving the trailer brake controller off? Weird that it defaults to off unless their is a specific benefit to having it off.

[nicholassmith]

Spot on, Andre! Keep having high standards and highlighting vehicles that fall short.

[Hazdazos]

Toyota is now unreliable, overcomplicated and overpriced. The Toyota fanboys are going to make excuses. 😂