The LandCruiser Lockout

Diesel is the devil. Let's make every drop count. Diesel is dead. Yeah. Fuel prices are cooked. Never mind the cost of living crisis. What about the Land Cruiser crisis? It's mathematically impossible

to buy a new Land Cruiser 300 unless you saved up for... 9.4 years. What does fuel prices

actually mean for you as a 4 wheel driver? Let's figure that one out. We're comparing the cost of a big trip

We did eight months ago, and we're about to get to the start of the Canning

Stock route- with the cost today. This is going to be pricey. And here's the big question... has owning a new land

Cruiser slipped out of reach forever? And if you switch off now, you'll miss

a few simple ways to keep the cost down. Controlled squeeze. And it's not just on fuel either. Right now everything's expensive. You got to fork out some cash for those. Mate, last year, you said this $3.10. Well, this is going to be pricey. Holy shit. That's actually not a bad price is it? We should go to Kunnawaritji. Go back in time. Oh, bring some of that down to Perth. Yeah. How would you feel right now

looking at that bowser? What do you think it would be? Well, looking at it

as $3.10 looks pretty good. I reckon it will be double more. Yep. $2 a kilometer or something. Yeah. That's absurd. My math is definitely out. It wasn't quite $2 per kilometer,

but it was bad enough. We'll jump back to this later

with the full breakdown. Plenty to say about fuel economy,

but I think first we're going to talk about the cost of Land Cruiser crisis. I’ve done a bit of research here. We wanted to know how long

it would realistically take, to save up and buy a Land Cruiser

in each decade. Right up until the point

it got ridiculously expensive. Because pricing on its own means nothing. And we've looked over the numbers. It only makes sense when you compare it

to the median income and factor in things like housing costs

and the basics You need to survive. So you don't have to sit through

a pile of numbers. We've broken it down. In another way. It's 1966- FJ 40. It's 1966. So that's when you could buy an fj-40. $2,600,

because you'd be saving your money for 4.6 years to buy a Land Cruiser. The Iron Pig FJ 55, 1976. You wanted a 55 series,

It would cost you about $6,300. Realistically, it would take you three

years and four months to save up for one. It's pretty good. The 60 series rolled out in 1980

as a new flagship Land Cruiser. 1986 this vehicle will cost you $28,000. four years, two months to realistically get behind wheel and owning it out. We’re into the 1990s,

the all new 80 series Land Cruiser Gxl in 1996 will cost

you about $56,000. That works out to around four years

and seven months, which has gotten a little bit worse. But the all new 100 series and 105 cruisers. The golden era of owning a Land Cruiser. It's 2006. The 100 series is nearing

the end of its run, and at this stage it costs about $64,000 to answer the $64,000 question. It only takes three years

and three months. How good is that? As we move our way through this decade,

the King of the road V8 200 series

LandCruiser- 200 series is released. And finally, the 70 series. Although the dual cab wasn't out

until 2013. The Game Changer 79 series Land Cruiser and this is when I joined the Land

Cruiser family. Hey, Ronny here from 4 wheeling-

Welcome to 2016. And a 200 series is sitting at $88,000. Imagine buying one now for that price. Back then, it will take about three years

and six months to save up for one. A bloody good

time to buy a flagship Land Cruiser. And this

is just about the end of the golden era, because by 2019, needless to say,

the world turned to shit. Stay home Flatten the curve. From here on

things will have cost you a lot more. 300 series Land Cruiser. And when you thought that was it housing shortage it just kept going. Cost is rising. Supply issues so on the median income

with the average house cost, it is mathematically impossible

to buy a new Land Cruiser 300 unless you saved up for 9.4 years

and you've got a ten year old 300 series. When the 500 series is now out. Yeah, that's true. I guess the message here will be buy a 60 or an 80 series

and go live your life. Yeah. Exactly that. And that assumes

you're buying it with cash as well. Increasingly over the years

you're not doing that. everyone's financing everything. That's just to afford the 300. You still got to put fuel in it. You still want to use the car. You still want to put accessories on it. If most people can't afford a 300 series

or the new Land Cruiser. What do we do? What do we get? Well, you're looking at a cheaper vehicle. Four wheel

drive on the market, new or secondhand. But what if you've got sort of under 30

grand? 80 series, straight up. petrol or diesel? Diesel. Japanese import Are they 12V? Don't care if they’re 24 or 12

you can make it work. So you don't think that with current diesel prices

people should be jumping over the petrols? I reckon give it a year. It should come down again. What would you get New though? if if you want affordable. You're looking at Chinese these days. you used to get Isuzu

D-Max’s is pretty affordable but they've pulled up to the mid 70s

I think. Yeah Hilux’s are getting up there too. Yeah you're about the same cost. Yeah. But if you get a single cab, surprisingly

then you can get it for 60. Without a tray though.. Yeah. That's the clincher. And well, from last week's video, you know how much it costs- with a tub. It comes with the car,

so there's no extra cost. So what about a petrol hybrid

four wheel drive? We've actually did you know there's a

petrol hybrid LandCruiser 300 coming soon? No I didn't know that. It's supposed to be out about now. Who can afford it though? Yeah, exactly. So probably looking at the GWM tank

300 and 500. Yeah. I'm not into Temu Land cruisers. BYD shark 6. No, no, I would rather drive a tank

300 or 500 than a than a shark. But what do you think is good

value on the market today? If you are looking at that

at that price of like 120, 120,000. Yeah. I think you'd be crazy to buy a 300. You'd be better off buying a 250

because you get more with it. So the base model of a 300

is $109,000 for a base model. You get not much with it. The altitude 250. It's 103,000, so it's six grand cheaper. You got a diff lock,

you got a sway bar Disconnect. You got all the niceties inside. You got full leather interior,

air conditioned seats, huge display. So you got everything you need.

If you're looking at that price range. It still rules me out, though. I'm looking at second hand. So let's say you have 120 grand to spend

on the car, what car would you Get? I do like the grenadier, I was hoping you’d say that. But is it practical

for the young family and? the wagon is. It'll just be like having any other wagon.

Really. I didn't care too much about them

or think anything of them til You got one. Yeah, til

you actually saw it and drove it... Became sold on it. Yeah. Oh,

I was the same until I could borrow one. I was not really interested. Interesting. I was interested to test drive it. Yeah, that was about it. Something with the BYD shark,

Not even interested in test drive. Yeah, don't even give a shit. And what if they paid you to say

good things? Well, that's the other problem with them. I wouldn't do it these

because they’ve tarnished that. So even if I did get one

people are going to think I'm being paid because that's the that's

what people think. Yeah. That happened to a few people. Yeah. Some guy bought one Right? And yeah, even showing the the purchase on

screen- people still didn't believe him. holy shit. You just printed that! and it's not just the vehicles that have

gone up in price, accessories as well. I remember suspension back in 2014

I know it’s a bit further than 10 years. I could get shocks and springs

for about 3 grand. Yeah, that's a decent set. You know, it was Dobson installed. You hungry mate?. I could feel it coming too

like no- shut up. I reckon you'd be hard

pressed to find the same suspension equivalent to 8 or 10 grand. That's insane, because I know someone

who recently bought suspension for their 76 series. They quoted me

ten grand. I'm like, what? How much? Ten grand. You looked around and found out

That's the going rate these days. Pretty much. So As the inflation soars and accessories

and mods go up, do you think it's going to push people

towards budget gear more? I think it will finally maybe make people

think twice about what they're getting. And I think one of the videos

that we're working on at the moment is going to be super, super helpful. It'll be taken more serious. I think people can still do

what they want to do, but now they're actually going

to be more selective on what they do. I don't really have a table,

but I do have a table. they need more reason to buy things

and feed it to the vehicles. Yeah, because they got no choice. People might go to the cheap stuff. The old buy once cry once. I think a lot of people are going to fall

in that trap of buying twice or, three times. Do you think there's a time when it's a good idea

to go with a cheaper item? Or is there items you would definitely say

never cheap out on this? I’d say there's some items i’d,

never cheap out on, but there are definitely some items

you can cheap out on- the roof. Bars would do almost the same job as a

roof rack, except for so much cheaper. Why buy $90 spun steel oven. When you can get a cast-iron

oven, just don't drop it when it's hot. Oh, drop it like it’s hot. Yeah, from a camping perspective,

I always say your swag. Spend good money on sleeping arrangement. Spend your good money

there. don't cheap out there. I reckon there’ll be people

that'll that'll question that. But I think you would be the last person

they’d question about that because you've done a few reviews- the seam at the bottom of the door flap. Oh that's annoying. Look at it all the way under my sleeping bag,

right through the middle. Same on the other side. You make pretty strong points

about why you better spend a little bit extra on a swag

then having one that leaks, right? Because if anything's going to ruin your

trip, that's waking up in a soggy swag. I've seasoned this swag four times

and every time I've opened it after it's dried,

there's water pooled in the PVC floor. What do people do?

Like get sickaflex to fix their swag? Yeah, another thing people try

and do is use plain old roof and gutters bathroom silicon. Now, I don't really believe in that

method as a long term fix. I love seeing that one. I'd rather

just spend the money on the good swag. What one mod would you pick to say

this is the worst modification you could do that's going to cost you

a lot for very little benefit, and maybe even hinder someone's ability

to get out there and have a good time? Rooftop tent. You're paying about five grand for a roof top tent for a decent one,

although some people pay two grand. But then they have to do all this DIY

to make it comfortable. Pump it full of sickaflex

to stop leaking- bathroom silicone. You know all all that. Yeah, but I would remove a rooftop tent

and I would just get a bunch of swags. Additional to that

If I have room on the back seat or in the back of a wagon,

or a back of a tray or back of the canopy, I would be putting my swags in there

as I'm traveling. I don't care how hard it is

to get to s**t. everything just locks

in. I could still get to stuff. you'd be saving, as you know, because you've done

a physical test of swags on a roof, right? Yeah, it's at least two liters per 100. It's a lot of fuel. For me, It would also be very large tires, like if I was thinking about

putting bigger tires on my car at some point,

I wouldn't be doing it right now. Fair enough for you

You've already got them. Yeah. I wouldn't be saying,

oh yeah, sell the 35’s and go to 32’s, but it'd be that and the roof

top tent I'd be thinking, I'll just put those off for a while

and go with the swag. You just done your lift. You've just done your tires,

you've just done your rooftop tent and you've just done your tune

for Max power. And today

you're going to pick up your car. Yeah. And you're

thinking about selling all those things, and you might just lose money on it

because no one wants that fuel cost. hold off. But what if you were going to tow around

Australia, like doing a lap? In fact, Alex had that in mind. My original plan was about now,

how does that look for you now? Oh, it was off the cards. But that was before all this fuel crisis

and cost of living crisis. has more to do with kids being a handful. So now it’s definitely indefinitely. Yeah, definitely indefinitely. I'm just glad

I'm not on the road right now. So do you want to actually go back to the maths I did on

how much it cost me to drive one of these. Yeah, yes. I borrowed Harry

Fisher's 300 series and caravan combo- Fire to fork, and I went to Geraldton

a little bit north of there. I left with a full tank. I picked it up from his place,

drove back to mine by the time

I got to Geraldton, I'd done 480km. Yeah, and used 140l. Sorry, 140l. Now, to be fair, Harry's 300 is heavily

tuned. It's a lot of fun to drive

and it wasn't easy on the right boot. I was 100 K's

all the way and I had a headwind. So that works out to be 29 litres per 100 towing That. The combined weight’s

about seven ton. Wow. $3.50 per litre. Pretty common Perth price Now. that's $1.02 per kilometer. Holy shit. A Dollar and $0.02 a kilometer. Imagine doing a lap around

Australia's 30,000 KS. Yeah, $30,000 just in fuel. That's like the price of a wedding. It's not the cost of the fuel That would worry me

It's the availability in certain places. So getting stuck somewhere.

That's a really good point, actually. Having said that, the cost is a bit of a concern

and I'd just do it by not moving as much. So instead of going from the bottom

to the top of WA in a month, I would probably stretch it to more like 2

or 3 and spend longer in each place. Do day trips. That's actually a really good point. You're offsetting the costs

in a different way, where it doesn't

really take away from your trip. And as long as there's no time

constraints, and then I can just sit in one place

and do work for a bit longer. And yeah. The Australian government just spent $20

million telling us all how to save fuel. How much did you spend? How much did I spend? Not 20 million. How much does it really affect your fuel

economy? 60, obviously,

because you've done it three times. There are three videos. That's correct. Welcome to another video

about fuel consumption. Probably six grand. I think you need to be doing the budgets

for the government. I know 19 million

something you would’ve saved. Ronny’s fuel saving tip. Let's say the Grenadier on a long trip. What's something you could do to save

a bit of fuel there? Drive to the speed limit. Pedal behavior

and not pushing it Going up hills. What would you do? I'd drop the speed a little bit. Sit on 100 instead of 110. You don't tend to get traffic banking up

Too bad behind you at that speed. No, especially if you've found yourself

a truck or caravan to sit behind. That's limited to that anyway. But if you find a caravan, I'll guarantee

you now it'll be doing 60 not 80. Yeah. So if you're going to do that,

I reckon you need to pull over. Once you've got a few people behind you, let them pass, then

drive your own fucking way afterwards. But you do this for a job. So the fuel cost is the fuel cost. My biggest concern is can I get fuel out

there? Let's see how much fuel I get

in the vehicle. Something like the Canning stock route. Having all that planning

and everything booked in and all that I’d still do

it, just is going to cost me more. Here is my fuel bill for the canning

stock route that I did last year. The most you've ever spent on fuel? Not this much. And here's what it will look like

with the fuel prices now, how much it’d cost us as a group, I’d be more concerned about

Can I get the fuel out there. Yeah. You know, and when I get out on the other side,

can I get fuel at all these other places? Do I need to fill up at $4 here

so I can definitely make it to Broome. You know, that's where that's where your long range tanks

are going to be doing you favor. You have less worry about that. You can fill up

where it's much cheaper. Yeah. But I think a lot of people would be reluctant

because it costs so much to fill it up. Yeah, but I see it as on road insurance. out here it's not about will

I make it there. You fill up when you can. Some other place might not have fuel

for any unforeseen circumstances. You've really got to be careful. What do you think the price per liter cut off would be like-

Now I'm not going on the trip now. That's too expensive. I wouldn't plan the CSR now,

if I had it planned, then yes, but I wouldn't plan it now. I’d wait for the fuel to come down. Yeah. I don't think I'd even bother with a day

trip. Well, if I'm going to go out there

for a day and come back, may as well camp for 1 or 2 nights. Yeah, that's true. For extending the duration of your trip,

you might have gone down to Bremer Bay for two nights. Well, now I'd be thinking

It's not worth it For two nights. I'll go for five. I mean, we were thinking about

heading over to the Flinders early spring. Three weeks- Nah, Not going to do it now. Price and the uncertainty. What is something

you would do in future now in regards

to fuel price or fuel availability? Our diesel vehicle

has been parked up for a week now. I'm on the e-bike quite a bit,

trying to limit my driving around town. I'm trying to save what I can afford for

fuel to, go away for a night or two. What's your number one thing

that you're going to do or doing? Well, I'd say something I've already done,

and that's trucking the car, so I never trucked the car before. Trucked the Grenadier to Queensland

because I was time poor. Cost me three grand. That's really cheap. But if I wanted to get it to Perth, it’d

cost me a shitload. Was it cheaper

trucking it than driving it? Should we all be trucking our vehicles

around the country? It makes sense

if you got more cars on one truck. So combined those four people. Truck pooling with mates. Yeah. Who wants to truck pool on a cape trip? Truck splitter. a truck splitter.

Truck pooling... Yeah Truck pool.