Electric Toyota Land Cruiser reinvented with luxury focus

I don't think Toyota is going to do that. They intended to make a Land Cruiser branded crossover and this is pretty much it right here. The 1970 Range Rover team, definitely checked out the Wagoneer like you suggested, since it was drawn up in '67 per some Googling. I do wonder if the 50-Series Cruiser had any influence on the Range too (cuz 1967)? Probably not. For 1980, the 60-Series had a subtly elegant, yet chiseled and modern clean look no one else had, except the Range Rover. And Yota did it before the 4dr RR became official in 1981. 60 might look dated now, but for something just 1 year after the 1970s, it looked like a kingship. GMs Suburban looked like glorified farm equipment and Wagoneer a Flintstone mobile by that point. The 100 looked a little late 90s RR to me meets j80, because somebody sent me pictures of the 100-Series backstory a long time ago. Mostly photographed at the tmc HQ in the early 90s and pics show Yota were really gunning for the Mitsu Montero (confusing), until like 1993ish when the signature look of the 100 came together in later mocks. Ironically, the Brit mags in 1993 were publishing spy pics of the '95 Range Rover already, so Toyota def might've seen it early... RR was Yota's only competition (that mattered), other than maybe the 300GE/G320 g-wagon. But, maybe you're right. It's easily a coincidence. The updated, signature looks of the 100 might've come from the smaller 90-Series Cruiser which was half a year ahead of the 100 in the design shop in '93, but the 100 I think took longer to get to market than the j90 and instead of late 96-97 intro, it was 1998. Think it was '94 when j100 body was 100% complete. What I can't shake, are the wider ribbed taillights of the 100 being nothing like the 50-80 cruisers that were slim+vertical, but instead the 100 tails were very similar to the '95 Range... Anyway, there's a rumor the new Defender was supposed to be body on frame, but Tata didn't want to develop a new frame for it and opted to just tweak the inhouse unibody instead for heavier use. Would've been more like a Bronco if they had done a new frame, but that's Landy today in general I guess. Once the RR was introduced 50 years ago and became the leading chariot of the Euro gentry, it was over and spinoffs for the middle classes, entrenched it. The many corp. owners of land Rover, prefer fatter profit margins and pockets over consistent substance.