The Land Cruiser traces to the Toyota Jeep BJ of 1951 (a body-on-frame off-roader developed to compete with the Jeep-derived vehicles the Japanese police were then buying from Mitsubishi) and was renamed Land Cruiser in 1954.[1] Wikipedia’s lineage for the nameplate runs through more than a dozen series across seven decades, split between Heavy Duty off-road-oriented models and more comfort-oriented Station Wagon models.
This entry covers two of that long lineage: the classic J40 (the FJ40 and its Brazilian-built Bandeirante derivative, 1960-1985) and the current J300 (2021-present). Everything between (J50, J60, J70, J80, J100 and J200 among others) is not authored here.