Toyota LandCruiser 70 Series back on sale

It’s been nearly a full year since Toyota Australia shut the door on LandCruiser 70 Series GXL Wagon orders before eventually pausing all 70 Series imports as it awaited a new emissions-compliant powertrain to start flowing down the production line. That engine is now available, bringing AdBlue injection to the 70 Series for the first time, and Toyota has announced the resumption of exports to Australia.

If you’ve been shopping for a 70 Series, we’ve got good and bad news. The good: Toyota’s stop-sale on the 76 Series GXL Wagon automatic, issued around a year ago, is finally over, with the order books officially re-opening for all automatic versions of the 76 Series wagon, 78 Series Troopcarrier and 79 Series cab chassis, with production to resume in August. The bad: manual variants remain off-limits for now.

Availability has been tight on the broader 70 Series range since the middle of 2025, and though Toyota Australia ordered more stock in anticipation of the production stoppage, the mismatch between supply and demand for the iconic off-roader has been profound.

Now, with a version of the 2.8-litre four-cylinder turbo diesel that’s compliant with new Euro 6d emissions rules under the bonnet and a 20-litre AdBlue tank squeezed into the chassis, would-be buyers can expect freer supply and lower wait times – provided they weren’t chasing a manual.

The addition of AdBlue injection – otherwise known as urea injection or exhaust after-treatment – cleans up the LandCruiser’s exhaust by converting harmful nitrogen oxide emissions into more inert gasses.

Though it adds an extra consumable in the form of AdBlue fluid (or DEF, diesel exhaust fluid), there’s no impact on engine output: peak power remains at 150kW between 3000-3400rpm, while torque maxes out at 500Nm between 1600-2800rpm.

Toyota is yet to announce whether fuel economy stats are affected (or how frequently the Adblue tank needs to be filled), but at least one variant will see a big drop in range.

Going forward, the 78 Series Troopcarrier will no longer boast a giant 180-litre fuel tank, with its fuel capacity now chopped down to the same 130L volume as the rest of the 70 Series family.

That means that, assuming average fuel consumption stays at the pre-AdBlue figure of 9.6L/100km, the Troopy’s maximum range drops from a huge 1875km, to 1354km.

The 70 Series is now 42 years old, with no replacement announced, and a large question mark hovers over when – or if – supply of a manual transmission will resume.

Even in the 4x4 utility segment, manual transmissions account for a minor share of sales, and automakers like Toyota continue to wrestle with whether the cost involved in keeping manual drivetrains compliant with ever-tougher emissions legislation is worth it – or whether it makes more sense to cut them loose altogether.

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