This Used Toyota Land Cruiser Successfully Sold For Almost IDR 3 Billion, What's The Privilege?

Toyota Land Cruiser FZJ80 in 1997. (Doc. Bring a Trailer)

JAKARTA - One unit of the 1997 Toyota Land Cruiser or the J80 series was successfully sold in the California region, United States. Unlike used cars generally sold at lower prices, this SUV actually manages to sell at high prices.

Reporting from the Bring a Trailer page, the auction site that sold it, Tuesday, July 9, a car with the code FZJ80 with a low distance of 4,700 miles (7,500 km) managed to sell for $170,000 or the price of the latest output model. What do you think is offered in this SUV?

Like other J80 series, this car has a large dimension and one of the dashing in its time. However, this SUV has been equipped with a sunset, power-adjustable side mirrors, rear wind deflector, and back wiper which was the leading technology at the time.

In addition, this Land Cruiser has a 16-inch rim wrapped in a strong Michelin Defender LTX M/S 275/70 tire in all terrain with ABS-backed braking.

Moving to the cabin, you can see the front seat, second row, and third row folding coated with pocketed skin. Then, the features presented inside consist of a power-adjustable on the front seat, CD stereo, AC, digital clock, and crude control.

From the driver's side, the car is equipped with a four-barreled steering wheel with a speedometer of 130 mp/j or 210 km/hour, a tachyon, oil pressure gauge, cooling liquid temperature, voltage, and fuel volume.

The engine itself is equipped with 4.5 liters of 1FZ-FE 6-silinder freshness which produces 212 dk of power and 372 Nm of torque. This model has also passed emission testing in November 2019.

Its power is channeled to four-wheeled (4WD) drivers assisted by an automatic transmission of four accelerations with differentials being locked.

The Land Cruiser series has indeed become one of the items being hunted for collectors and fans because of its tough ability to cross off-road areas and its units are no longer produced.

In Indonesia, the used price of this car is also observed to be quite high. Based on VOI's search, the series is now sold from the price of Rp475 million to the most expensive of Rp798 million.