Your LC300 wait time is about to get a whole lot longer: Toyota cancels LandCruiser 300 production for FOUR WEEKS as off-road icon hardest hit by parts shortages

Global deliveries for the new Toyota LandCruiser 300 Series have been thrown into chaos with the off-road icon's Japanese production facility shuttered for almost three weeks owing to semi-conductor and parts supply issues.

The company-wide issue impacts almost the entire Toyota and Lexus line-ups, with passenger vehicles like the Corolla, C-HR and RAV4, as well as the HiAce, LandCruiser Prado, impacted, along with the Lexus LS, IS, RC, RCF, NX, CT, UX and UX300e.

But no model has been so hard hit as the LC300, with that model's Yoshiwara Factory to be closed for 28 consecutive days, from September 3 to September 30.

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Compounding the issue is how long it will take to make that production up, with Toyota pointing out the clock-work nature of its production schedule means it will difficult to find extra capacity in October, although it says it will be trying to.

Toyota is hoping to get back to regular production levels by October, but has warned the delays could continue is component supply remains thin, adding that owing to the tight nature of Toyota's production schedules, catching-up will be difficult.

"In October and beyond, we think there are risks so we will monitor the situation every day, going forward. In October and beyond, we would like to recover as much as we can, but we already have tight production plans," Toyota's Global procurement manager Kazunari Kumakura to America's Automotive News.

Company-wide, the shutdowns will stretch from August into September, and will impact 27 of 28 production lines across every one of Toyota's 14 domestic production facilities. The work-stops will last anywhere from one to 28 days.

The results of these shutdowns are massive, with Toyota's production falling by 40 per cent, from around 900,000 vehicles to around 500,000, with the obvious flow-on effect meaning longer queues and wait times for new vehicles.

"Adjustments will be made to production operations of plants for completed vehicles in Japan as follows, such as parts shortage resulting from the spread of COVID-19 in Southeast Asia. This is in addition to the adjustment of domestic production operations in August 2021 announced on July 22 and July 27," the brand has said in a statement.

But the impacts are bound to be most keenly felt by those waiting for a new LC300, with international reports suggesting deliver times has already blown out to "more than a year" before this current stoppage.

The updated icon officially went on sale in Japan on August 2, following a hugely successful pre-order campaign that attracted more than 20,000 buyers. But those buyers have been told they'll be waiting at least 12 months for their vehicle.

What that means for Australian deliveries remains to be seen, but our launch date is edging closer, with LC300 spied arriving in this country ahead of what dealers say will be an October 4 launch.