The Land Cruiser You Never Knew Existed: The USA Cloth 100 

It’s wild how it looks basicaly new after 300000 miles. I’m a cloth guy myself.

I'm from Yemen, and these cars are everywhere. Especially that Yemen has a mountainous terrains and broken roads. The spec we get is the Gulf spec (aimed at Saudi Arabia, UAE and their neighbouring countries), and as far as i know it far better specs than the EU or US cars. Split into GX-R and VX-R. The GX-R and GX (sometimes you'd find a GX-m badge too with chucky mountain tyres and some are diesel. I think the UN uses this model variant a lot) come in the V6 4500 CC engine and has about 5 variations, but they generally had a sunroof, cloth interior, no hydraulic suspension and miss 1 or 2 of the electronic diff locks. While the VX-R would have full leather, sunroof, hydraulic suspension, electric diffs, and a 4700 CC V8. (It had many variations too), but the most surprising one I saw, was a 2001 VX-R V8 with cloth interior (not similar to the one in video), it didn't have the electric diffs, just the hydraulic and even the seats were manual unlike the majority of the VX-R model.

As a Texan expat working in Saudi Arabia, you can see these Land Cruiser everywhere. With so many varieties of interior options and powertrain options too. Even the newest models comes with the same expectations. I personally drove one of my Saudi friends 2019 Land Cruiser with cloth seats and manual transmission, differential lock that comes along with sunroof and other luxury options (it’s called V8 GX-R) The price tag of these Land Cruisers starts at $60k and up to $100k which is crazy but made it very handy to everyone. Thank you for the very informative video.

Cloth is for JDM as that type of cloth is considered high end than leather in Japan that's why you find it in most luxurious cars like the ls and century

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That's what we call a radio voice! Cool content and very cool Land Cruiser!

Great video. I can tell your channel is gonna start blowing up once you put out more content

Love your video style... its so well made and entertaining.

Great video.... Pretty awesome that one of your first videos contains a cloth interior 100 series.

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Keep it up! I've liked all of your videos so far!

This is so cool! Absolutely loved the video. Subscribed to see more!

this is such a well made video, you have a future here thomas. good shit !!

great video man 🔥

i have a 2000 100 280,000 miles and still do 1000 mile road trips and wheel it hard i love it besides the leaking front windshield

I remember seeing cloth interior when I worked at Lexus . No sunroof with cloth .it was a special order there was several Is football players they were too tall The sun roof was taking up space and they wanted cloth because it's cooler. I love the cloth interior in my 80 series I also have a 40 series it's vinyl.😉

Great presentation.. Awesome content! Thanks for the video!

Great video Thomas!

Cloth FTW!

Love the content!

Dude. Great video. And I had no idea these existed! So rad.

Great video keep it up!

such a good find. grew up in a lx470. so interesting to see it with cloth. also, fun fact about there being an option to scrap the 3rd row and moonroof.

keep making content like this great quality.

The seats might be a little dirty, but a similar leather LC with 300k the seats would be torn and trashed. Love the cloth can’t wait to see the cleaning

It's still a good looking car even for today. Wow. I'm drooling for one

My sequoia has cloth seats, wish it had heated seats but still very comfortable

DAMN! they literally engineered this car to LAST FOREVER! not a plan of obsolesce...

That's awesome. Totally reminiscent of a Century,,; almost looks like wool.

Great video!!! So weird that they made so few of thr cloth interior haha

that dude took reallllly good care of the LC, like jus look at the body of the car, paint is in immaculate condition looks like it rolled outta the factory, props to the one owner dude

Felt like a video from a much bigger creator. You have skills! Commenting to help yr reach

This guys amazing

And here I am trying to order the TRD Body kit for my 2017 LX.

i noticed that US spec landcruiser 100s have only 1 trim level and the V8 , GCC spec cars come in many different combos, Straight 6, V8 , 5 spd manual or auto , locking diffs, steel/ aluminium wheels, split tailgate/ barn doors/ barn doors with spare tire / split tailgate with rear tire, standard front bench seats, rear troopy style seats etc etc.

Great presentation skills, keep the videos coming my man

Here in Georgia (country) Land Cruisers are very popular vehicles. The government and military use it. Lot's of businessmen too. As far as cloth interior goes, even right know the starting lowest option Land Cruiser 300 costs 52k$ and has a cloth interior.

This reminds me of the first two model years of the Lexus LS400, when you could get fabric interiors as well. Most cars got leather of course, but for the 1990 model year, you could order Gray Fabric, Blue Fabric, Burgundy Fabric, or Mauve Fabric. In 1991, only Gray Fabric was offered... and that was the final year that fabric was offered for the Lexus LS.

We had cloth seats in our 80 series 100 series and our hilux , both our 80&100 had swinging rear doors and drop down army seats . I remember as a kid I’d bite the front seat and chew away the seat yes I was a weird kid lol

The third generation Lexus RX also had a cloth interior. Its mentioned in forum posts and brochures but I cant find a photo anywhere for the life of me.

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Here in UAE we have a lot of land cruiser with different options starting with the G which is basic option ( 4.5 straight 6 cylinder engine, 5 speed manual transmission, manual window, no sunroof and you can have it with diesel engine) GX option same as G but with rear ac and power windows.. GXR is the top option in 6 cylinder engine and you can have it with auto gearbox.. VXR is the V8 engine (4.7) and you can have it with different options like leather or fabric seat, sun roof or with out, diff lock or with out, auto or manual plus all GCC cars comes with 2 fuel tank and 2 fuel filler one for the main tank and one for the spare tank and you can have 2 spare tires one hanging at rear and one under like U. S specification

my friends Dad had a green one with cloth interior, I didn't know it was that rare until now lol

The upholstery in the Toyota Century is not cloth--but wool! It's perceived to be more upscale than leather. The Cruiser just has higher grade fabric.

You have a great voice

Wow, this is one fascinating vehicle, how did you manage to find it? Since so many of the Landcruisers sold were leather interiors, are there any leather components in the cloth one? (such as leather wrapped steering wheel, leather center console, body panels, etc.) Also, how much was the cloth package compared to the normal leather?

I've got an Australian Delivered 105 Series GXL (80 Series solid axle front end) which has a cloth interior the truck has just hit 550,000 and the interior is perfect. The only difference I've noticed is that mine doesn't have the little arms on the side of the front seats otherwise there the exact same

I expected a DJ Khaled & Jay-Z cameo spittin 'cloth talk' 😁

Hey there, I've made a video on the 100 series too. Good job

Down here they were sold with crank windows, vinyl everything, manual, solid front, front bench and rear benches for a total of 10 occupants and power nothing

This is the same kind of shock when you see a Lincoln Town Car, Cadillac DeVille or Fleetwood, W126 with cloth velour seats for the first time.

nice!

Hang onto your Landcruiser, it's the best vehicle ever made when roads are scarce and gasoline is plentiful. Keep up with the timing belt. I have an Lx570, so I don't have that problem. Silver/Grey.

The interior of the Century is not "just cloth" but wool that breaths, suck up moisture and reduce road noice

What’s also very rare are the early model years 98 to 2002 with nav option in the US.

Living in Texas I would love cloth seats in mine. In the summer time the leather seats are torture.

Cloth interior 80s are very common in Japan. I have the 2015 70 Series Wagon and they all came in cloth. I think in other markets 70s can have cloth or vinyl, and maybe they have a leather package in the MEA region but not sure.

You forgot catagory V: Vegetarians. Some folks because of personal or religious beliefs want luxury without leather.

oh my god these things are everywhere in Kuwait. Not just kuwait but all the arab countries tbh.

That’s a nice Land Cruiser. Doesn’t even show it has over 300,000 miles !

Tips on how to find one from your experience?

Cloth > Leather!

If I'm not mistaken there was also an option to get the 100 series with a front live axle suspension, but it was only available in Australia, Middle East, and South Africa.

The Toyota Century has a wool interior, not cloth. Huge huge difference.

These are seen around, he took his time to get to the point to say it has cloth

Ok so there not a ton of people who know this but in Asia and all jdm and Japanese models imported to multiple countries was 1 simple option that was widely used on all US spec Lexus and high end Toyotas from the early 2000s, in Asia there was no lexus brand due to Nissan having a tm L badge that was very similar with Lexus hints the cars in Asia are Toyota made instead of lexus branded, well in Asia you can buy the Toyota century with leather but the leather is actually worse then the cloth option, the main reason you will see more Asian Lexus/Toyotas with cloth interior it's not because people wanted leather its because cloth made the interior more quiet and in the Toyota century the best car in the world, leather will creak and in humid climates it can get hot and cold and the leather can wear down and get extremely hard and uncomfortable to sit on So its interesting you found a extremely rare land cruiser with the cloth seats your story does add up due to most people who live in Texas dont want the leather to get hard and crack over time For the people saying wow that cloth interior is in amazing condition it's no suprise to me because it was made when Toyota actually cared about their material quality and imo the cloth back then looked extremely beautiful unlike today's ugly hard foam generic fabric.

Is this just regular cloth or premium wool like you'd get in a Century or Celsior?

What about a 100 series with a v8 and manual transmission? That thing is real, rare but very real.

Hey, you looks good

That '90s Japanese cloth wore like an anvil. I've seen it in more downmarket cars too, and not just Toyotas - there are totally trashed late '90s Civics whose interiors just need a good cleaning to look this new.

It will last forever!

Then what happens next: somebody buys the truck, and the new owner replaces the stock upholstery for leather... Yeeee... This did happen when imports first came to my home country, Brazil, in the early 1990s: dealers would swap velour interiors for leather ones, so they could charge more. Even Toyota Corollas from that era would have leather seats (which was uncommon at that time). However, leather performs terribly in hot, humid places like most parts of Brazil. My 94 Rolla, fortunately, had the original cloth seats from Toyota. They were super comfy and would never crack like leather. But they did look nasty, and I had to wash them a couple of times, but that was it. And the cloth in this Land Cruiser looks like new. It just needs to see some water and soap.

My 21 HE w/ third row option is only 1 of 25 made

I wonder how many non sunroof fans 100s are in the US

Australia is 80% cloth trims in the hzj105 fzj105 hdj100 uzj100

Good luck finding a replacement seat if you ever need one...😆

Call me weird but I like the spindle grill :p

Oh my god I wanna be doug demero

is that your real voice?

Informative, witty, and really, who knew? Not me. But using the world “utilitarian” twice in the span of a minute? Highly questionable. Please address in future videos.

Disappointed to see a sunroof. No sunroof and no cloth is the real winner, though. Where did you find the documentation on the 10 cloth seats or so you know of?

They're so many in kenya

Make more videos

I have a 98 that was bought new in San Antonio TX. Window sticker says it had cloth seats but the previous owner swapped it out for leather seats. Shame.

The Century’s “cloth” interior was premium wool though. Something the LC never had.

this is tank on wheels

Not the most rare US spec 100 series, try to find one without a sunroof!

Is that it a cloth interior?😅

Just some feedbacks about your filming and content. You spent just 6 minutes just talking how rare cloth seat options on US spec 100 series and basically repeating the same statement. It's about the car so you don't need too much facial expression and acting during narration.

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nice!