Review: 2009 Toyota Landcruiser - A SUV good enough for Dr. Evil and his wife

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    pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/garage/" rel="tag"In the Autoblog Garage/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/suvs/" rel="tag"SUVs/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/toyota/" rel="tag"Toyota/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-toyota-landcruiser/1493907/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/04/05_08_toyota_lcruiser-580op.jpg" //abr /div style="text-align: center;"span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"small2009 Toyota Land Cruiser - Click above for a high-res image gallery/small/spanbr //divbr /Once upon a time, if you were expecting company and they drove a Toyota Land Cruiser, you'd have Teva prints in your carpet and the smell of patchouli filling your house. Their refrigerator cheese selection probably included one with the word "Whiz" in it, and if things got too warm, your guests would unzip their Vatican pants at the knees and stuff the legs into their oversized shorts pockets. No more. With a starting price of $64,755, the 2009 Toyota Land Cruiser is a certifiable luxury proposition that only gets close to grime when tackling a grass-covered hill at the local little-league soccer field. Yet in spite of its juggernaut proportions and new personality, after a week in the 'Cruiser, it's obvious why Toyota's biggest SUV sells: it's a giant Camry that seats eight and eats volcanoes.br /br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-toyota-landcruiser/"2009 Toyota Land Cruiser/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-toyota-landcruiser/1493899/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/04/01_08_toyota_lcruiser_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-toyota-landcruiser/1493910/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/04/02_08_toyota_lcruiser_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-toyota-landcruiser/1493905/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/04/03_08_toyota_lcruiser_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-toyota-landcruiser/1493906/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/04/04_08_toyota_lcruiser_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-toyota-landcruiser/1493907/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/04/05_08_toyota_lcruiser_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divpa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/04/16/review-2009-toyota-landcruiser-a-suv-good-enough-for-dr-evil/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emReview: 2009 Toyota Landcruiser - A SUV good enough for Dr. Evil iand/i his wife/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/04/16/review-2009-toyota-landcruiser-a-suv-good-enough-for-dr-evil/"Review: 2009 Toyota Landcruiser - A SUV good enough for Dr. Evil iand/i his wife/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:59:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/04/16/review-2009-toyota-landcruiser-a-suv-good-enough-for-dr-evil/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1518438/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/04/16/review-2009-toyota-landcruiser-a-suv-good-enough-for-dr-evil/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/apa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/hhuQotq6DkfdNrUVwVHW4x6RW_8/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/hhuQotq6DkfdNrUVwVHW4x6RW_8/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=Fsd0X3D_6bE:zhJNnAzxnV0:wF9xT3WuBAs"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=Fsd0X3D_6bE:zhJNnAzxnV0:wF9xT3WuBAs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=Fsd0X3D_6bE:zhJNnAzxnV0:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=Fsd0X3D_6bE:zhJNnAzxnV0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/Fsd0X3D_6bE" height="1" width="1"/

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