2025 Toyota Land Cruiser Loses First Edition, Gains Price
If you missed out on the First Edition, you can buy most of its stuff on other models.
It sure feels like Toyota's newest Land Cruiser has only been on sale for a short while, but it was a late 2024 model year addition, so it's already flipping over to the 2025 model year. The 2025 Toyota Land Cruiser, as you might expect, is pretty much the same as the new-for-2024 250-series version, but it gets new pricing and loses the first-year-only First Edition trim level, leaving only the entry-level Land Cruiser 1958 and the nameless, formerly mid-grade Land Cruiser behind.
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As before, the Land Cruiser 1958 model anchors the lineup, and is the only version (now that the First Edition is gone) with round headlights; the next-level-up Land Cruiser wears less distinctive rectangular units. The 1958 trim is relatively basic, with cloth seats and a strong retro vibe. But it does come with the same off-road gear as every other Land Cruiser, including locking center and rear differentials, an i-Force MAX hybrid powertrain making 326 hp and 465 lb-ft of torque, and a 2,400-watt AC power inverter. New this year are a set of inner tailgate lights that help illuminate the trunk area when the tailgate is open.
The Land Cruiser variant adds the aforementioned rectangular headlights, a larger 12.3-inch touchscreen, stabilizer disconnect system, Softex faux leather seats (heated and ventilated in front), a terrain management traction control system, RIGID forward lighting, and a 10-speaker audio system.
The discontinued First Edition built on that model, adding standard rock rails, leather seats, a 14-speaker JBL audio system, mud flaps, special badges, and a roof rack, albeit combined with the 1958's round headlights. It isn't presently clear whether the First Edition's off-road options (rock rails and mud flaps) will be made available on lesser 2025 Land Cruisers, though the rest of its kit is essentially absorbed into the the 2025 Land Cruiser's Premium package option.
Prices, happily, don't budge much. The 2025 Land Cruiser 1958 and Land Cruiser cost just $405 more—not a bad tradeoff for some fancy new tailgate lights—at least in part thanks to a lower destination charge than last year.
2025 Toyota Land Cruiser Pricing
The 2025 Land Cruiser goes on sale this fall.
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