Hurry up and wait for your LC300: Queues for the Toyota Land Cruiser 300 Series grow overseas with months-long delivery delays expected - reports

The Toyota LandCruiser 300 Series has sparked huge interest around the world, which is good. But with that interest comes orders, and with those orders comes production delays and queues, which is bad.

Japanese media is already pointing to wait times of around six months for the LC300, and that's before the model even officially goes on sale in its home market.

Australia has officially opened its Expressions of Interest site for the new LC300 in Australia, but in Japan, pre-orders opened on July 1 (albeit ahead of the full vehicle information being released from Toyota in Japan).

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But the word from Japanese media, where journalists have been grilling Toyota dealers, is that while the vehicle is launching in 2021, some deliveries aren't expected to be completed until 2022, meaning some customers face a minimum six-month wait time as a backlog of orders continue to build.

International prices have also begun to be revealed for the Toyota Land Cruiser 300 Series, with price jumps expected across the board for the more high-tech successor to the LC200.

According to the online sleuths at Japan's Best Car Web, the local price list for the new LC300 will start at 5.1 million yen ($61,377) for the cheapest GX petrol model, climbing to 5.5 million yen ($66,200) for the AX, and 6.6 million yen ($75,810) for the VX.

But the number that really matters to us is the diesel price list, with the top-spec ZX to sell for 7.6 million yen ($91,437) in diesel guise, and the new GR Sport will list at 8 million yen ($96,250) - making that model the most expensive ever.

The top-spec ZX model (the nameplate ZX Sahara has already been trademarked in Australia) is 326,000 yen (around $4000) more expensive than the ZX 200 Series. The gap to the diesels ZX is then another $3600.

Toyota in Australia is still targeting a Q3/Q4 launch in Australia for the LC300, with pricing and specification details for our market to be revealed closer to the official launch.