Toyota LandCruiser 70 series order books will remain closed for another six months

The Toyota LandCruiser 70 series remains sold out indefinitely as the company confirmed overnight that order books are not expected to reopen for at least six months.

Some Toyota dealers have even posted estimated delivery times of “never”, in a sign of frustration.

Toyota Australia sales and marketing boss Sean Hanley told a Sydney news conference that overnight order books would remain closed for “at least six months”. However, even when this deadline approaches, it could be extended again.

Toyota’s top executive declined to say how many customers were expecting, but said delivery dates stretched over more than a year for the LandCruiser 70 series – the oldest model in the company’s lineup .

Given that Toyota sold between 10,000 and 12,000 examples of the LandCruiser 70 series in each of the previous two years, Conduct understands that there are at least 10,000 customers in the queue.

“We are working to increase our production capacity with this car,” Hanley said.

“It’s quite unique in our country and we want to meet that demand.

“We have a sizable order bank (but) we still have a year before we wipe it out.”

The Toyota executive said order books would remain closed because “we need to put those customers first, which is why we have taken the steps we have.”