Toyota Mini Land Cruiser? a modern micro car of sports utility vehicles?

 It indicates it is a mini. Another site indicates it is a compact sport utility vehicle? I am checking it out. Perhaps not exactly a modern micro car but it is modern. It is definitely not a micro car when cars of the past that started the micro car trend. 

This is an article on it by Drive of Australia. It shows what is coming out by Toyota; a mini Land Cruiser? Perhaps not a true micro car but perhaps a small one when compared to the full size Toyota Land Cruiser? 

Perhaps the trend is more compact sport utility vehicles since gas prices are going up and a smaller sport utility vehicle just makes more sense than a full size one while still being bigger than sedans? I wonder if people like sport utility vehicles since they are roomier and easier to get into and out of than sedans? Perhaps the trend for big sport utility vehicles is something pushed by car companies since it makes them more money? I think higher gas prices might hamper the desire for a bigger vehicle? 

I am not sure this is it but the other site indicated this is the compact (mini?) Toyota Land Cruiser.

There are other articles on it; 

Auto Blog. 

Top Gear Car News. 

There seems to be other sites on it. Perhaps too many to list here. A simple search will find them. 

I wonder if it will be about the same size of a Jeep Renegade? One site indicated it will be a Jimney killer? Perhaps similar size to the Jimney? 

The size seems very similar. I guess the only way to truly know if they were parked next to each other. Since the Toyota has not come out yet, it might be difficult to do till then. 

the Suzuki Jimney

Since the article is in the Australia site, I wonder if it will come to the USA? There are a lot of cool cars that don't seem to make it to the USA. Perhaps this will be one of them. One can hope. I hope I will see it on the roads here in the future. Then again it might not appeal to Americans since so many prefer the full size sport utility vehicles instead of the smaller ones. I prefer the smaller vehicles but I seem to be in the minority. 

TomLeeM

2023 / 10 / 02