In the past, when we bought a car, it was car sales that chased after which models had many discounts, and there were a large number of cash cars, and the payment drove away on the spot. Now we go to buy a car, look at the car, book a car, wait for the car, pick up the car has become the norm of car sales, especially after the new power brand more and more, derived more sales play, such as blind booking, Dading, etc., not to mention test drive, many times consumers have not even seen the real car, has been booked, when to pick up the car is unknown.
Recently, it has also been rumored that a certain model is now booking a car at the latest to wait 4 years to deliver the car, and now buy a car 4 years later to pick up the car? What futures model is worth waiting for?
Recently, Toyota directly announced on the official website of the Land Cruiser LC300 model that "the waiting period has been as long as 4 years, and please forgive customers for inconvenience".
In fact, the pre-sale model was first applied in the housing market, the main purpose is to test the market's response to the product and then make corresponding adjustments in the later stage to avoid sales risks. It's just that the trend is often one reincarnation after another, and after a few years, the car market has played a new trick.
Of course, Toyota can't be entirely blamed for this. Blame the reputation of the Land Patrol is really too good, excellent off-road ability coupled with the super terrifying retention rate, so that the Land Patrol gradually jumped out of the attributes of automobile products, successfully broke the circle into a wealth management product.
In addition, the time for the land patrol to change is too long, from the launch of the 2007 to the 2021 generation, the previous generation of the land patrol sold for 14 years, so after the replacement, in addition to a large number of new users, there is also a large number of replacement needs in the old car owner group, Toyota also said that after the replacement of the land patrol has been full of orders, Toyota body production line is really difficult to digest such a huge order.
The covid-19 pandemic has also exposed the drawbacks of industrial globalization, the latest mutation of the Omicron virus has once again pulled the supply chain that was in the recovery stage back to the brink of paralysis, and the global shortage of car machine chips has forced depots to reduce production.
Although the delivery date may change depending on future production, toyota announced on January 18 that it will suspend the production of 11 production lines at eight domestic plants, including the Motomachi Plant in Aichi Prefecture, in February this year, Toyota said that it expects domestic and foreign new car production to be about 150,000 units less than the production plan in February, and global production will be around 700,000 units, and Toyota expects new car production this fiscal year (ending in March 2022) to be lower than the original expectation of about 9 million units.
In order to reduce losses, Toyota is expected to use the remaining production capacity on models with better sales and higher bicycle profits, so although the orders for models like the Land Cruiser are many compared to similar models, the total amount is certainly not as good as the Corolla and other models, and the capacity distribution is naturally not dominant.
In addition, unlike some volume models that have several factories around the world, Toyota Land Cruise has only one global production base, that is, the Yoshihara plant in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, although Toyota has earlier said that it has increased the production capacity of the factory by four times, but the shortage of car machine chips has once again impacted production capacity.
It is reported that a small batch of new Land Cruisers has arrived at the domestic port and is currently doing environmental protection processes for the 3.5T engine. There are many parallel car dealers to value it, predicting that the starting price of domestic parallel imports may exceed 1.8 million, coupled with toyota's [4-year delivery] on the fire, this generation of Land Cruise is destined to become a new generation of wealth management products, conservative forecast or more than 2 million, and may even become the most expensive SUV model outside of Cullinan, to know that this car is priced in Japan only about 300,000 yuan.
What is the charm of the Land Patrol that can make so many people obsessed? The story begins with World War II.
At that time, after the Japanese army defeated the American army in the Philippine battle, it sent the captured American jeep back to Japan and asked the Japanese automobile factory to start copying, so Toyota began to build a light off-road vehicle codenamed AK10 for the Japanese army, which was the predecessor of the Land Patrol. Yes, so there is no need to look down on domestic cars, even Toyota is a reverse development.
In 1951, Toyota was commissioned by the police reserve at the time to develop a four-wheel drive vehicle. Thus the Toyota JEEP BJ was born. Later, Toyota was sued by Willis for trademark infringement by Toyota, so it removed JEEP and named it the Land Cruiser Land Cruiser in imitation of the Land Rover, which is where the Toyota Land Cruiser name comes from.
In 1955, because the second generation of Land Cruisers appeared. In addition to the appearance of the new car has been greatly improved, the interior space and driving comfort have been adjusted, and the more powerful Toyota F-series engine has been replaced, which makes people more accustomed to calling the FJ the Land Cruiser series.
In 1960, Toyota's FJ20 series was upgraded to the FJ40 series. The new F-type in-line 6-cylinder 3878cc engine was replaced, and the model produced in Brazil could use Mercedes-Benz's 2977cc diesel engine, while the Land cruiser series began to be sold around the world.
Due to the accumulation of technology and the market, Toyota Cruze is ambitious, began to enter the civilian off-road vehicle market, in 1967 extended the FJ40 wheelbase launched the FJ55 model that is more acceptable to ordinary people, equipped with an inline 6-cylinder 4230cc engine, off-road power has been improved, but also from this time the people began to change their views on off-road vehicles, in addition to the travel tools to do rough work, off-road vehicles can also become a good partner for long-distance travel with a mouth.
Later, the 55 long wheelbase alternative product 60 long wheelbase model was born, and compared with the 55 model, the overall shape has been very close to the modern SUV we understand, it has a higher performance of the diesel engine and steering power and other configurations, the user population has also expanded to private families. The engine mainly includes two versions of the 3B diesel engine and the 2F type, and in 1982, a 6-cylinder 3980cc 2H diesel engine version was added. In order to do better to compete with Land Rover, Toyota began to work luxury practicality.
In 1984, Toyota launched the most classic generation, the 70 series, and it is also the only model that Toyota has been on the market for more than 20 years and has been mass-produced by manufacturers. The short-axle plate models of the 70 series are also sold under the name Bundera (Overbearing) or Land Cruiser in some markets outside of Japan. After a period of time, the short version of the model was renamed the 70 Prado, and in 1990 it was officially named land cruiser Prado (known in China as land cruiser prado, that is, prado in many people), becoming the most complete branch of the land cruiser family, and completing the final transformation of the land cruiser to a passenger car.
Later, it was the launch of the 80/90/100 series, until the launch of the previous generation of Land Patrol LC200 in 2007, which took the lead in launching a series of advanced off-road systems, steep slope mitigation, off-road anti-lock braking system, off-road creep function, etc., making the Land Cruiser one of the best off-road vehicles that could be bought on the market at that time, and also became a hidden artifact in the hearts of countless people who knew cars and did not understand cars.
Back to the pickup date of the LC300, what is the concept of 4 years? For normal models, 4 years is basically a cycle of mid-term car modifications, and even some models that are more diligent in replacement have been replaced. Maybe interpret this news, a sentence can be broken - Toyota: I have a showdown, do not want to increase the price of the car, then wait 4 years!