Toyota Land Cruiser FJ

Toyota Land Cruiser FJ (2026) Launch Review

How much does the new Land Cruiser FJ cost in South Africa?

Land Cruiser FJ GX R714 000
Land Cruiser FJ VX R761 400

The vehicle is sold with a 9-service/90 000 km service plan with intervals every 10 000 km, as well as a 3-year/100 000 km warranty. Service and warranty extensions are available through Toyota’s national dealer network. All new Toyota vehicles are equipped with connectivity hardware, enabling in-car Wi-Fi (including a complimentary 25Gb allocation) and a suite of Toyota Connect services.

Summary

The Toyota Land Cruiser FJ is a uniquely-styled compact SUV, but unlike the current crop of competitors, can actually venture far beyond the comforts of the metropolitan areas. There’s something refreshingly mechanical and uncomplicated about this vehicle. Sure, the exterior design team injected their youthfulness into the aesthetics, but at its core, it’s Land Cruiser through and through.

Given its appeal and positioning as an entry point to the Land Cruiser hierarchy, it should come as no surprise that demand comfortably outstrips supply and the Toyota Thailand factory will be churning them out as fast as realistically possible.

 
New Toyota Land Cruiser FJ: early SA sales figures revealed

How many units of the Toyota Land Cruiser FJ were registered in SA during this new SUV’s launch month? We have the answer, plus RAV4 and bZ4X sales for May 2026…

- Land Cruiser FJ straight into 3 figures
- Best RAV4 sales since October 2025
- New bZ4X hits 33 units (10 via dealers)

The new Toyota Land Cruiser FJ – priced from R714 000 and offered exclusively (for now, anyway) with a long-in-the-tooth naturally aspirated 2.7-litre petrol engine – officially hit dealers around South Africa on 18 May 2026. So, how many units were registered over the remainder of this ladder-frame SUV’s launch month?

Well, according to figures reported to Naamsa, Toyota SA Motors registered 127 units of its new FJ-badged Land Cruiser in May 2026. As many as 116 of these were sold via the dealer channel, with the remaining 11 reported as so-called “single” registrations (vehicles the brand kept and licensed for its own use).

That means the new Land Cruiser FJ effectively outsold the larger (admittedly more expensive) Land Cruiser 300, which ended the month on 103 units. The J250-series Prado, however, was the most popular Land Cruiser SUV in May 2026, with as many as 323 examples sold.

The Japanese brand’s local division also registered 3 units of the Land Cruiser 76 wagon, along with 466 units of the likewise seemingly evengreen Land Cruiser 79, seeing the latter rank 6th on the list of South Africa’s best-selling bakkies for May 2026.

 
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