Chances are high the Center East’s Remaining Version FJ Cruiser will look quite a bit like this one, offered in Japan.Picture: Toyota
No — you didn’t get up in 2014, I’m sorry to say. The affable Toyota FJ Cruiser has really been on sale this whole time, simply not the place you could possibly purchase one. That’ll finish very quickly, although. Toyota, which has been promoting FJ Cruisers within the Center East for this whole time, is sending the quirky SUV out with a Remaining Version for consumers in that area subsequent 12 months.
All informed, the FJ Cruiser lasted 16 years within the Center East. That’s very spectacular, and we’re very jealous. Each instance of the FJ Remaining Version might be completed in beige, based on Abdul Latif Jameel Motors, a licensed Toyota distributor in Saudi Arabia.
Picture: Toyota
That coloration will lengthen to all the pieces — the physique, pillars and roof, as nicely the upholstery and heart stack trim within the inside, to supply a “distinctive sense of modernity.” I don’t know if I’d name beige probably the most trendy coloration, however to every their very own. For me, and I’d wager for an ideal a lot of you, the quintessential FJ coloration scheme will at all times be yellow or blue with a white roof, finish of debate.
That is how I’ll select to recollect the FJ Cruiser.Picture: Toyota
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Toyota hasn’t revealed photos of this special-edition FJ, however as Motor1 factors out, the outline of the Center East particular version sounds very just like the Remaining Version mannequin offered in Japan 5 years in the past. In addition to all of the beige, Japan’s particular version additionally had black trim on the grille, bumpers and step rails.
Once more, that is the Japanese-market mannequin, although the inside coloration scheme precisely matches the outline of the Center East remaining version.Picture: Toyota
Just one,000 of those last-call vans might be offered within the Center East, and the adjustments are purely beauty. The powertrain — the 270-hp, 4.0-liter V6 — is unchanged. That’s alright; it doesn’t have to alter. The FJ was a tragic SUV, derided throughout its existence for being too bizarre and cutesy for an American public nonetheless swilling Monster Power and three Doorways Down. Toyota ended manufacturing mere seconds earlier than People determined they solely cared about overlanding. Had the FJ remained on sale within the States, it could undoubtedly be a success now. If Toyota’s sensible, it’ll get its idea Compact Cruiser EV into showrooms as quick as it might probably.
