Invincible might be an exaggeration, but this is one tough car. It’s capable off-road, and with Toyota’s well-deserved reputation for reliability, unlikely to let you down.
Driven solo, the Land Cruiser can feel ponderous, but it makes an impressive towcar, rarely needing steering corrections to hold a straight course. The Al-Ko ATC unit showed very little movement from the caravan when slowing down from 60mph.
For a car that doesn’t like to be rushed, it handled the lane-change test well, and the hill start might as well have been a speed bump for all the challenge it posed.
If anything, our practicality testers were more impressed than the drivers. The boot took every item of luggage; there was a full-sized spare and a reasonably comprehensive handbook.