If he would, he would complain about alternator ceasing to work, after he left it sitting for months. And repairing it for stupidly high prices in the dealership just to sell it on.
Last week I purchased a 1999 LX470 with 147k miles for $1,000. Needed a battery and tires. Runs like a top. Garage kept its entire life, serviced by Lexus. The elderly lady can no longer drive due to age. Find of a lifetime.
@@svein-haraldribland8559 That's a misconception with Toyota. I understand what you're trying say, but the 1HD turbo diesels were and are loved by Australians for being bulletproof.
My Grandparents bought a 2001 Sequoia limited with the 4.7l v8 4wd fully loaded, single owner, garage it's entire life, always maintained (My grandpa was a nuclear engineer for 30 years), 53k original miles on it. They passed away last month and the rest of my family thought it was an old crappy car because it only KBB'd at like, 5-8k dollars. So they gave it away for free to their care taker to have. I kept telling them it's probably a 20k dollar car but no one would believe me. Also had a 1997 Toyota Avalon fully loaded with 46k miles, and a 2012 Toyota Tundra with 20k miles.
@@Freightshaker69 you mean the invaders that live on terrorizing and slaughtering innocent people out of greed and call them terrors for defending their home? Lie and believe the lies
I think the 80 series crew would have something to say about this. They view the 100 suspension as over complicated and more prone to rust. The 80 is the last real no-nonsense off road truck.
While i was in the market for my first car, i was looking at first gen Tundras and Sequoias, as well as 4th gen 4Runners for that 2UZ 4.7L V8, and my dad found a 1998 Land Cruiser with a totally messed up interior at our local Toyota dealer for 1100 bucks. He bought it, announced his purchase to the family at dinner, and i got so excited because that was the top of the line vehicle you could get with the 2UZ, and then he dropped the bombshell that he bought it for my younger sister. Peak spec, too. Rear lockers, heated seats, sunroof, it even had its engine replaced with a slightly more powerful Tundra engine. But it wasn't for me.
Doug, I’ll sell you my 98 LX for 75K right now. 278K on her. Runs great, no rust. Water pump, starter, alternator, battery, hoses, radiator and front seats all replaced. Runs like a champ. What a deal!
Buy them for fun, i hate how it all became another collecting game for rich fools who dont even drive them. Just tons of speculating mongrels snatching up the cars from the market. Soon we will be out of nieche options that were ignored until somone started another bubble...
@@explodifier6021 the stock market beats even something like the Ferrari Enzo worth 3.5 mil now, but at msrp of $660k in 2003, that’s an 8.5% increase per year. Many ETFs and mutual funds beat that and you dont have to worry about the liabilities like crashing, damaging, or vandalism, etc.
Not buying cars as an investment is moronic if you ask me considering how easy it is. Buy an ‘06 LX470 with 150k miles for $17k, put some hours detailing it and some maintenance and it’s already worth more than what you paid for it a week later. Any manual transmission 911 will keep increasing in value just by having it sitting in your garage, I’m not sure where the asinine part of that is.
@@paulira7407values only go up buddy. One a particular example it's the 100K mark it becomes known as a 100K car because eventually even the worse example will go up in value even if it's not a 100K
LC200 is great. We have a 2011 60th anniversary V8 4.7l. Brilliant engine and chassis. Cheap as chips because locals do not want to pay the road tax each year. Nor the huge fuel bills. We love it. And keep a Gwagon in reserve.
Where im from an 06 tacoma is 18k easy. These land cruiser are already hitting 20k at times. Every big suv from 95 to 08 are going up. Armadas, land cruiser, sequoia and pathfinders. All these are just going up and is wild. I owned an armada fully stock until i sold it with 280k miles in it
Agree. In Australia buyers of the last 70 seriers cruisers with the V8 Diesel are bought for 85k new...then getting scallped for 120k a fee months later...
My insurance man and his family of 4 had a head on collision on the freeway in one of these with a car that crossed the highway at 50mph...THEY ALL WALKED AWAY!😮
I live in iraq and man i am dying for one it is one of the most popular cars here in the middle east and for good reasons we appreciate the land cruiser also here it's white for the most part. But amazing car.
Jugghead Doug has vastly exaggerated the 100 series. In the US it was void of a lockers front and rear. The 70 series was far superior and even the 200 was better
I'm currently eyeing a 10k australian 1999 105 RV with a 4.5 inline 6 1FZ-FE with 200 000 miles and both lockers. Looking brand new. That's a sexy 7 seater beast
Dave What's fuel economy like on that drive train. I'm looking for one in Zimbabwe or South Africa as a project and then I'll work on it over a full year Luckily my cousin is a mechanic. I stay in UK most of the year and hoped to source a engine but omg they are so expensive. How much is a decent diesel engine there for them mate Regards
Some company in Georgia already restore them for that price. No way used will ever get over a $25k. Unless 1 owner under 100k miles and it’s listed on bring trailer. Then a bidding war may happen. But in today’s market I highly doubt it.
The min that Land Rover discontinued the Defender as we knew it, one sold at auction for 150k. So i do see a clean era accurate Cruiser pulling something similar
Invest $100k and go buy 5 of them today (ok maybe 4 good ones). That $100k becomes somewhere between $600-$750k in 10 years! Wow, I wonder if I can buy them with money in my 401k? The markets been good, but not THAT good!
Stay away from the AHC models, watch for cracked headers, windshield area rust, dead ignition coils, frame rust, junction block failures suck too voltage starts to drop. Glad I sold mine
At one point fj cruiser was the number one for holding it's value over any other vehicle. I'm an 80 series and scout 2 guy but love the fj. Wish they made it with a removable top man.
Damn. I just bought a 2007 Lexus LX470 with 187,000 incredibly well maintained miles on it. I plan on keeping it pretty much stock, keep everything maintained like new and maybe put a couple thousand miles on it a year. I drive a company van for work. I'm not sure what Doug means by long term, but I've watched and waited for about 6 years and realized prices weren't dropping back down on these. So I decided to finally pull the trigger on one. It is everything I had hoped it to be. After test driving a few others and a 200 series, I definitely prefer the '07 100 series. I think Doug is right with his preference here. But worth 150 big ones? In my lifetime? Even if it does get there, will 150,000 be that much? or will it be like 30,000 is today? Only time will tell.
Its true its the best one and sweet spot among the generations but don't mess it up for us! They're already one of the most expensive cars from their respective years to buy today.
For context, this Land Cruiser pictured went for $78,500 on cars and bids. But it only had 7100 miles. Which is crazy low for a Land Cruiser. So that's what shot its value up so high.
$150K for 100 series? Yeah, Iam pretty sure it will happen. However it will have to be perfect condition example with less than 15k miles. Typical 200k+ miles 100 series would not be even 5th of that price tag.
I've lived in UK since 2000 and I just don't understand why some people in the UK want a Land cruiser The car just looks so different as composed to when you see it in Australia or South Africa even on a UK farm lol
That Land Cruiser they just showed you sold for 78k... It had crazy low miles, and a lot of people agree with Doug in that it's the best Land Cruiser model ever produced. In the future, extremely clean low mileage examples might very well go fo 100k plus.
Doug shut up I don’t have one yet
If we know doug he snatches two up before they go big, learning from his mistake from the G wagon
I’m trying to find one, I found a few cheap in the north east, most of then have rust issues
If he would, he would complain about alternator ceasing to work, after he left it sitting for months. And repairing it for stupidly high prices in the dealership just to sell it on.
Trader, I mean investor's instinct. 😂
You can get one for under $10k now. I am looking at a landcruiser or Tundra myself in a month
If the 100 series actually starts costing that much we’re holding Doug responsible
@@Rocketman1583 look at the prices of land cruises in Australia and your head is going to explode
@@big_papi-JamesA low mileage 80 series sold for 170k in the States. Insane.
@@Ba3am249 yeah but that was like under 5k miles any car even if it’s not desirable sells for a lot when miles are that low
My HDJ101 has doubled in value since acquiring it. 🇨🇦
Doug single-handedly raised the value of the Land Cruiser 😂
Which is in his interest if they sell on cars and bids.
Yay market manipulation.
Your still paying 15-20k for a nice lx470 or lc100
If he hadn't sold his years ago it would be pumping and dumping.
They pretty high as is even for older models. Due to their reputation, they are selling for way more.
Last week I purchased a 1999 LX470 with 147k miles for $1,000. Needed a battery and tires. Runs like a top. Garage kept its entire life, serviced by Lexus. The elderly lady can no longer drive due to age. Find of a lifetime.
thats a steal, i need your luck
WOW, i would give her a gift or tip for it !
The 4,2 liter straight six diesel was even more reliable than the 4,7 V8. Literally indestructible
Not only that but the Diesel options were also extremely reliable.
can confirm, thats what my cruiser ute has
4.5 liter straight 6 gas engine peaks tho. the amount of those cars here in the middle east easily pushing 800hp is insane
no, the 2uz-fe is even more reliable than the diesel. No turbo, or nothing to break.
@@svein-haraldribland8559 That's a misconception with Toyota. I understand what you're trying say, but the 1HD turbo diesels were and are loved by Australians for being bulletproof.
We got The 105 series with the solid axles, 3 diff locks,manual 5 speed and the legendary 1hz diesel. This is the greatest landcruiser ever made.
All except the 1hdfte motor
Mark my word. All the funky colors will come back into style.
My Grandparents bought a 2001 Sequoia limited with the 4.7l v8 4wd fully loaded, single owner, garage it's entire life, always maintained (My grandpa was a nuclear engineer for 30 years), 53k original miles on it. They passed away last month and the rest of my family thought it was an old crappy car because it only KBB'd at like, 5-8k dollars. So they gave it away for free to their care taker to have. I kept telling them it's probably a 20k dollar car but no one would believe me. Also had a 1997 Toyota Avalon fully loaded with 46k miles, and a 2012 Toyota Tundra with 20k miles.
Sequoia is a completely different vehicle than a Land cruiser. The 4.7L engine is different in both vehicles.
Dang! You should have offered them 5k for it!
Amazing. I work a low-mileage, used car dealership, those three vehicles together are worth alone over $60k.
As someone who owns a 100 series, these really are tanks and I am proud to own one.
The 100 series was a beast in Iraq for contractors.
And terrorists..
Terrorists use a landcruiser 79 series not a 100..@@Freightshaker69
@@Freightshaker69 you mean the invaders that live on terrorizing and slaughtering innocent people out of greed and call them terrors for defending their home?
Lie and believe the lies
@@Freightshaker69 the US government doesn't drive Land Cruisers.
@@veganpotterthevegan niiiiice.
I think the 80 series crew would have something to say about this. They view the 100 suspension as over complicated and more prone to rust. The 80 is the last real no-nonsense off road truck.
While i was in the market for my first car, i was looking at first gen Tundras and Sequoias, as well as 4th gen 4Runners for that 2UZ 4.7L V8, and my dad found a 1998 Land Cruiser with a totally messed up interior at our local Toyota dealer for 1100 bucks. He bought it, announced his purchase to the family at dinner, and i got so excited because that was the top of the line vehicle you could get with the 2UZ, and then he dropped the bombshell that he bought it for my younger sister. Peak spec, too. Rear lockers, heated seats, sunroof, it even had its engine replaced with a slightly more powerful Tundra engine. But it wasn't for me.
Never let Bro cook again (I lowkey agree)
Doug, I’ll sell you my
98 LX for 75K right now. 278K on her. Runs great, no rust. Water pump, starter, alternator, battery, hoses, radiator and front seats all replaced. Runs like a champ. What a deal!
Doug wants to talk to you about cars and bids.
Yeah but in Australia it’s the 1997 80 series with 4.2L diesel. Live axles. Bulletproof diesel. 4 wheel disk brakes. Its Legendary.
I got a 2001 Land Cruiser with 319 original miles and it’s still going strong
The problem is most of them are high mileage
They got low mileage ones in Japan
Hence reliable
@@montereygolds yeah but sadly at 6 figure mileage there are sooooo many components that have to be replaced.
@@AtthewgoopStfu and gatekeep
It's not a problem with a Land Cruiser
And in Australia, the same model but with the 1HD-FTE engine (that’s a 6 cylinder 4.2L Turbo Diesel) sells for 65K in 2024.
And Central America also too > i believe we must still respect 2UZ by the way, but, nothing better than a sweet HDT-FTE 24 Valve running.
I’d prefer the LC105, combining the LC100 refinements with the LC80 solid front axle for better off-roading
Never buy cars as an investment… will someone pay that someday for one? Maybe, but to buy one and hold with the expectation of that is asinine.
Buy them for fun, i hate how it all became another collecting game for rich fools who dont even drive them. Just tons of speculating mongrels snatching up the cars from the market. Soon we will be out of nieche options that were ignored until somone started another bubble...
Well it probably depends on the car tho.
@@explodifier6021 the stock market beats even something like the Ferrari Enzo worth 3.5 mil now, but at msrp of $660k in 2003, that’s an 8.5% increase per year. Many ETFs and mutual funds beat that and you dont have to worry about the liabilities like crashing, damaging, or vandalism, etc.
Have made well over 100k using cars as investments, just gotta know what you’re doing
Not buying cars as an investment is moronic if you ask me considering how easy it is. Buy an ‘06 LX470 with 150k miles for $17k, put some hours detailing it and some maintenance and it’s already worth more than what you paid for it a week later. Any manual transmission 911 will keep increasing in value just by having it sitting in your garage, I’m not sure where the asinine part of that is.
The best is the 80 series with lockers
This is actually my favorite color for the 100's
Every landcruiser looks good.
I'm in the UK and own a 2002 Landcruiser 100 series with the 4.2 turbo diesel. I have owned 4 of these in the last 8 years. Love the ride!
My mom still has her 1999 Land Cruiser, which she and my Dad bought in '98 when I was a year old. 250k miles and still going strong!
I think the brown on it is beautiful
The 80 series is a better truck to build since it has a a solid front axle and these (I think) are the first to have independent front suspension
That uz v8 platform is golden.
Offroad wise 80 series is the best land cruiser. Best Daily or most balanced yes i would agree with 100 series being the one.
He's not wrong in 100-150k for the very best examples, a crazy low mileage 97 80-series just sold for 170k
@l.a1532 But that fact is obvious. Obviously the beaters with 250k are never going to be $100k price range. Ever! Lol…
people thought the V10 Excursion wouldn’t be $100k
Is it now?
@@yash.kapoor absolutely. look online for a good example one
@@masonvevo.only low-mileage 4X4 models in excellent condition, which makes up less than 5% of the marketplace.
@@paulira7407values only go up buddy. One a particular example it's the 100K mark it becomes known as a 100K car because eventually even the worse example will go up in value even if it's not a 100K
@@masonvevo. The Excursion is not a $100k vehicle, people that much for one are weird.
80 series is the best Land Cruiser because of the solid front axle. Fight me
The last one with solid front axle is 105 series
Rockzuk the 80 series is the benchmark for all Land Cruisers you are rihjt6
200 series is the best because it's almost 400hp....
They can fight us both brother!
LC200 is great. We have a 2011 60th anniversary V8 4.7l. Brilliant engine and chassis. Cheap as chips because locals do not want to pay the road tax each year. Nor the huge fuel bills. We love it. And keep a Gwagon in reserve.
Yep and thats how doug effects the market good luck finding one for a reasonable price
Indeed it is beautiful and reliable cruiser ever made and also especially 1HD-FTE is perfect engine ever Toyota made.
Best car ever. I had a 2004 mint condition one and miss it dearly
Where im from an 06 tacoma is 18k easy. These land cruiser are already hitting 20k at times.
Every big suv from 95 to 08 are going up.
Armadas, land cruiser, sequoia and pathfinders. All these are just going up and is wild.
I owned an armada fully stock until i sold it with 280k miles in it
Top gear should have Doug as a host
Agree. In Australia buyers of the last 70 seriers cruisers with the V8 Diesel are bought for 85k new...then getting scallped for 120k a fee months later...
My insurance man and his family of 4 had a head on collision on the freeway in one of these with a car that crossed the highway at 50mph...THEY ALL WALKED AWAY!😮
I live in iraq and man i am dying for one it is one of the most popular cars here in the middle east and for good reasons we appreciate the land cruiser also here it's white for the most part. But amazing car.
Jugghead Doug has vastly exaggerated the 100 series. In the US it was void of a lockers front and rear. The 70 series was far superior and even the 200 was better
I'm currently eyeing a 10k australian 1999 105 RV with a 4.5 inline 6 1FZ-FE with 200 000 miles and both lockers. Looking brand new. That's a sexy 7 seater beast
Thank god I already bought a cream puff 07. I mean it’s an LX, but it’s basically just a Land Cruiser.. right?
Couldn't agree more. Best series of the entire LC gen.
100 series LC model stonks 📈
I've got the 4.2 litre diesel turbo here in Oz (down under). Super reliable and very economical fuel wise.
Dave
What's fuel economy like on that drive train. I'm looking for one in Zimbabwe or South Africa as a project and then I'll work on it over a full year
Luckily my cousin is a mechanic. I stay in UK most of the year and hoped to source a engine but omg they are so expensive. How much is a decent diesel engine there for them mate
Regards
I own a 99 Lexus LX 470 (same car but lexus) and it is like brand new. I love it!
lol everyone in the Middle East getting even richer
Some company in Georgia already restore them for that price. No way used will ever get over a $25k. Unless 1 owner under 100k miles and it’s listed on bring trailer. Then a bidding war may happen. But in today’s market I highly doubt it.
Even tho I don’t agree with Doug’s takes all the time, it really is interesting to think what cars will become collector items in the future.
The min that Land Rover discontinued the Defender as we knew it, one sold at auction for 150k. So i do see a clean era accurate Cruiser pulling something similar
I love the 100 series
I want to import a diesel model
Invest $100k and go buy 5 of them today (ok maybe 4 good ones). That $100k becomes somewhere between $600-$750k in 10 years! Wow, I wonder if I can buy them with money in my 401k? The markets been good, but not THAT good!
Just remember, the 3rd guy at end…. He’s never watched Top Gear.
I’ll stick with my 4.7 litre v8 4Runner. It’s smaller and perfect for trails.
2nd Gen GX does it better with a timing chain instead of a timing belt. Oh and you spend less for less mileage.
@@epiccowboymemes2042 Yes but I just don’t like how they look. Great cars tho
Ill keep it 💯. I hope that happens so i can tell folks my LC100 is more expensive than my JZX100
As the owner of a 100-series Land Cruiser...I hope you're right! Ha! Even though, I will never get rid of my Land Cruiser!
Stay away from the AHC models, watch for cracked headers, windshield area rust, dead ignition coils, frame rust, junction block failures suck too voltage starts to drop. Glad I sold mine
I had it's lexus cousin. Beautiful car
That brown is just so fine.
That’s why I’m holding on to my 07 fj. Maybe one day it will be worth some 💰
$150k? What are you taking about 😂
I'm still an FJ cruiser guy. Those are ridiculously priced now also. A 90s 4runner in great shape now is like $20k.
At one point fj cruiser was the number one for holding it's value over any other vehicle. I'm an 80 series and scout 2 guy but love the fj. Wish they made it with a removable top man.
Agree 100%
Damn. I just bought a 2007 Lexus LX470 with 187,000 incredibly well maintained miles on it. I plan on keeping it pretty much stock, keep everything maintained like new and maybe put a couple thousand miles on it a year. I drive a company van for work.
I'm not sure what Doug means by long term, but I've watched and waited for about 6 years and realized prices weren't dropping back down on these. So I decided to finally pull the trigger on one. It is everything I had hoped it to be. After test driving a few others and a 200 series, I definitely prefer the '07 100 series. I think Doug is right with his preference here. But worth 150 big ones? In my lifetime? Even if it does get there, will 150,000 be that much? or will it be like 30,000 is today?
Only time will tell.
Brown? BROWN?!! That's not brown! It's "Desert Rose Metallic."😂
best one is the 105 （soon will be able to import)😃😃
okay, I've got a 1998 poverty pack 100 series, one of maybe half a dozen in the country, I guess I'll hold onto it and keep it nice.
Glad that we have plenty in Australia, let's hope prices will stay kinda low
I have a 100 series and love it
2017 vx 4.5 V8 diesel
Its true its the best one and sweet spot among the generations but don't mess it up for us! They're already one of the most expensive cars from their respective years to buy today.
The lexus version too. It's supercharged
I want the brown car! Brown vehicles are my favorite…but I will be glad to take it at half price because nobody else wants the brown Land Cruiser.
1HD FTE was the best 100 series engine you guys didn’t get!!
@@Beng177 yep the 4.2l turbo diesel
Exactly. Ifykyk
For context, this Land Cruiser pictured went for $78,500 on cars and bids. But it only had 7100 miles. Which is crazy low for a Land Cruiser. So that's what shot its value up so high.
That's how I feel about the second generation Mitsubishi montero
I agree with everything but Desert Bronze metallic will not be the color people want. That color is by Duracell.
Every time I see this car on the road I think about asking the person if I can buy it. Dream car for me.
I agree i absolutely agree (please don't tell anyone i have a J100).
I agree, the 100 has a superior engine to the 80, and the 80 has a great engine
Brown is my favorite car color
I have one, its awesome.
$150K for 100 series? Yeah, Iam pretty sure it will happen. However it will have to be perfect condition example with less than 15k miles. Typical 200k+ miles 100 series would not be even 5th of that price tag.
I guess I’m lucky to have a One (1999)
My co worker has one with 500k miles, all original.
Those already reach 70k in Europe, diesel manual version without hydropneumatic suspension.
I’ll stick with my $3k 2010 Nissan Pathfinder. The 4.0L is a great motor.
The 1970s straight six was the best.
The 4.7 is definitely less reliable than the 96+ inline 6. Not that they are unreliable, but they have way more "known problems" than the 4.5
Here in the UK, some 97 models sell already for close to £30.000
I've lived in UK since 2000 and I just don't understand why some people in the UK want a Land cruiser
The car just looks so different as composed to when you see it in Australia or South Africa even on a UK farm lol
I hope mine will be worth that, but i doubt it. Maybe a cherry one with 10K on it.
Lmao no way 🤣
That Land Cruiser they just showed you sold for 78k...
It had crazy low miles, and a lot of people agree with Doug in that it's the best Land Cruiser model ever produced. In the future, extremely clean low mileage examples might very well go fo 100k plus.
@@user-ke1gn3ql1g that will never happen. We’re in a bubble right now, these prices won’t last, no Land Cruiser will ever be worth more than 100k.
Love my 2000, just under 300k miles 😁
I feel that might be even sooner than 10 years
Someday I'm going to import a 105
If you see the color in reality it's amazing
Let me just hop on marketplace quick- second gens sequoias are looking might fine now too.
Had a 98 with the rear locker. It was a great daily until the front dif went out