2025 Toyota Land Cruiser 'Black Edition' Comes Stylish to Virtually Replace the Top Grade

Naturally, that means its dimensions are slightly on top of the fifth-generation Toyota 4Runner, which costs almost $41k for the 2024 model year and comes with a nearly obsolete 4.0-liter naturally aspirated V6 suitable for sending 270 horsepower to the four wheels through a jittery five-speed automatic transmission. However, it's not as big as the three-row Sequoia, which starts from over $61k.

Still, there are more common elements with the latter than the former for the 2024 Land Cruiser – like the fact they're both produced on the same modular TNGA-F architecture and share the exclusivity of a hybrid i-Force Max powertrain. However, the 2024 Land Cruiser starts from around $56k with 326 horsepower under the hood, while the Sequoia gets a higher tune of 437 hp because it uses a 3.4-liter twin-turbo V6 instead of a 2.4-liter turbo inline-four alongside electric power.

So, you see, for a few more dollars, you can get a hulking Sequoia with more power, or for a lot less, you can be as traditional as you can be in this day and age with the slightly smaller 4Runner. Additionally, both have another advantage over the 2024 Land Cruiser – they have seven grades or five trims for the 4Runner and Sequoia, respectively. Instead, the J250 Land Cruiser mid-size off-road SUV only comes with three options – 1958, Land Cruiser, and $75k First Edition. Even those would be fine, to be honest, but the top tier is only available for the first 5,000 buyers, and then you're left with just two grades to choose from.

No worries, as there are solutions to any conundrum, of course. To solve the problem, the imaginative realm of digital car content creators has come up with the second Land Cruiser special series – the 2025 Black Edition. That is courtesy of the good folks over at the AutoYa info channel on YouTube, who have imagined the CGI looks of this stylish Land Cruiser special series in a bid to replace the First Edition for the second model year of the off-road SUV.

The channel's pixel master was busy envisioning this potential new flagship grade, and because the 2024 Land Cruiser already has a black paint option in the online configurator, they didn't narrow down the hypothetical 'Black Edition' to just one color. Instead, the CGI expert cycled through various hues, many of which aren't available currently, both for the exterior and interior, while also adding black badges, blacked-out LED lights front and back, dark protection elements, and a new set of tires plus wheels that are more inclined toward a street build rather than off-road adventures.